Category: Presentation
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Thoughts on Reviewing CfP Submissions
Recently, I reviewed ~150 submissions for a conference. It’s been a while since I did a CfP review, and here are some things I noticed. Noting this is my own personal experience – others may disagree! This was an anonymous review, which was interesting. There are a lot of great reasons to do an anonymous…
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Podcast: It Shipped that Way
We talked about hiring directors, the fallacy of “servant leadership”, and what makes teams great [listen].
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Talk: The Culture of Process
I recorded this talk for the previous round of LeadDev Together. You can access it here (requires signup). All the penguin imagery in this talk are photos my mom took in Antarctica.
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Swiftly Speaking
I recorded an episode of Swiftly Speaking with Paul Hudson. We talked about: Privacy and why developers should care about it. Working in Open Source. Public speaking. It is pretty long (~90 mins!) but was super fun to record and go into these topics in depth.
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Panel: Recognizing and rectifying your mistakes as an engineering leader
Last month I put together a panel for the Lead Dev on recognizing and rectifying your mistakes as an engineering leader. I rarely moderate panels, but for this audience and this topic I was in! The big failure of most panels is that they are full of abstract platitudes. To avoid that – especially on…
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Coachability++
Slides and commentary for a talk I gave (internally) to Qz in Q4 20202. When I think about growth, I think about drowning rats and boiling frogs. Because this is what growth often feels like – or looks like – especially when it’s hard and not going particularly well. The rat drowning school of growth…
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2018 in Speaking
Speaking was weird for me this year, my speaker coach (and friend) Denise died at the start of the year, which left speaking at all times tinged with grief. Putting together the talk I prepped [blog posts] (eventually I settled on the name of “Creating Success, Together”) was… a painful process. Chiu-Ki and I shut…
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Remembering the Eloquent Woman
Nearly ten years ago, I found a blog called The Eloquent Woman written by Denise Graveline. I read it diligently, and reading it I learned so many things. I learned about speaking in general, about structuring talks, clarity in scientific communication. I learned about the way women have historically been excluded from speaking, the way…
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2017 in Speaking (and 2018 Speaking Goals)
This year, my speaking goals were: Give a talk I’m proud of. Try something new. This came about because at the end of 2016 I realised I had (nearly) met the goals I set for myself, but I hadn’t really enjoyed the process. I stripped things back and tried something different. My guideline for this…