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If you don't care about the material, why on earth would anybody sit around for 15 minutes/30 minutes/an hour listening to you talk about the material. The sole
by OkayPhysicist 1y ago
If you don't care about the material, why on earth would anybody sit around for 15 minutes/30 minutes/an hour listening to you talk about the material. The sole reason for a presentation over a technical reference buried somewhere is because the presenter wants the audience to care about the thing they're presenting. If that isn't reflected in the presentation, it's not a worthwhile presentation.
- Cyph0n 1y agoBut this was a technical presentation at a conference dedicated to the technology in question. A person stumbling across this on HN does not magically make them part of the target audience.
- OkayPhysicist 1y agoA technical presentation is a still a presentation, as opposed to a reference document. If you want to give someone a block of technical information, you do so in a reference document. You talk in front of a room full of people in order to convince them that this matters enough to bother.
- Cyph0n 1y agoSure, but I don’t think this is relevant to the comment thread we’re in, which started off by sharing generic advice that mostly applies to TED-style motivational talks or “keynotes” at large conferences etc.
- OkayPhysicist 1y agoI definitely thought we were downstream of pinkmuffinere's critiques about not establishing a reason to be excited about the material. oops.