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What's great about his talks is how smooth they are. I'm not sure if that's a good analogy, but his talks are like waves in the sea. They are rolling from one t

What's great about his talks is how smooth they are. I'm not sure if that's a good analogy, but his talks are like waves in the sea. They are rolling from one topic to the other, nice and clean. That's what it looks like when person knows what he's talking about and quite passionate about it - such person wants to share his thoughts and experiences.

nerdy 12y ago
It also requires strong intelligence, mental processing speed, vocabulary and frankly just giving a damn about not only the subject but clearly articulating it to the audience. After I read "Smart Guy Productivity Pitfalls"¹ it became apparent to me that John he has quite an acute awareness of life's smaller details. Too many people care too little about a lot of things. There seems to be a common perception that a passionate-about-the-reasonably-small-details attitude is simply being "anal" or "OCD". Finding people who are intensely passionate about their work-- not just the paycheck-- is insanely difficult. It'd be nice to have the company of more people who fall into John's category (though statistically unlikely at his level). I'm not saying that to hold him on some kind of pedestal, just giving him credit for his hard work. ¹ http://bookofhook.blogspot.com/2013/03/smart-guy-productivity-pitfalls.html http://bookofhook.blogspot.com/2013/03/smart-guy-productivit...
- Ronsenshi 12y ago
  Thanks for the link, very interesting read.
- iamshs 12y ago
  Absolutely agreed on the mental processing speed and acute awareness of smaller details. Look at this point in the video:- https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=nqzpAbK9qFk#t=5221 https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=nq... He has just opened the floor for questions, and the questioner does not have a microphone and hence audience cannot hear the question. John starts answering the question, but immediately recognizes the situation and then repeats the question for his audience.
iamshs 12y ago
Agreed, he presented so much information and did not stumble once, used no filler words, and did not deviate from the topic. It was commendable how freely he was talking about Android, Samsung and about each minute aspect of the device.

nerdy 12y ago

It also requires strong intelligence, mental processing speed, vocabulary and frankly just giving a damn about not only the subject but clearly articulating it to the audience. After I read "Smart Guy Productivity Pitfalls"¹ it became apparent to me that John he has quite an acute awareness of life's smaller details. Too many people care too little about a lot of things. There seems to be a common perception that a passionate-about-the-reasonably-small-details attitude is simply being "anal" or "OCD". Finding people who are intensely passionate about their work-- not just the paycheck-- is insanely difficult. It'd be nice to have the company of more people who fall into John's category (though statistically unlikely at his level). I'm not saying that to hold him on some kind of pedestal, just giving him credit for his hard work. ¹ http://bookofhook.blogspot.com/2013/03/smart-guy-productivity-pitfalls.html http://bookofhook.blogspot.com/2013/03/smart-guy-productivit...

Ronsenshi 12y ago
Thanks for the link, very interesting read.
iamshs 12y ago
Absolutely agreed on the mental processing speed and acute awareness of smaller details. Look at this point in the video:- https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=nqzpAbK9qFk#t=5221 https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=nq... He has just opened the floor for questions, and the questioner does not have a microphone and hence audience cannot hear the question. John starts answering the question, but immediately recognizes the situation and then repeats the question for his audience.

iamshs 12y ago

Agreed, he presented so much information and did not stumble once, used no filler words, and did not deviate from the topic. It was commendable how freely he was talking about Android, Samsung and about each minute aspect of the device.