Presentation
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Presenting Lessons from Walking Tours
→: Presenting Lessons from Walking ToursLast November I was in New Orleans with a friend, and we went on a couple of the many (many!) walking tours offered. These are essentially 2-hour long presentations, but the stage is the street and the slides are the city itself. Whilst I often find the presentation style a bit overdone (especially in a…
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#BeyondTheCode15: Hilary Mason – Creative Machines, People, and Organizations
→: #BeyondTheCode15: Hilary Mason – Creative Machines, People, and OrganizationsMy notes from one of my favourite talks of 2015 – Hilary Mason‘s talk at Beyond the Code [video]. Optimist both in belief in technical progress and what we can do with it, underlying hope for humanity. 2015. We really do live in the future. You can go on Kickstarter and support a project to…
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Moderating My First Panel
→: Moderating My First PanelI saw live tweets and follow up posts from Beyond the Code last year so I was really excited to be asked to speak or moderate this year. Since reading Denise’s book about moderating panels, I’ve been wanting to try out everything I’ve learned. So I was pleased, but also nervous to be moderating my first…
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Running a Mentoring Program
→: Running a Mentoring ProgramAs part of our Technically Speaking Anniversary, we ran a mentoring program. If you’d told me a year ago that we would be running a mentoring program as part of this I would have been shocked, because we had explicitly gone in this direction of scaling up the mentoring we did, and moving away from…
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Book: Present! A Techie’s Guide to Public Speaking
→: Book: Present! A Techie’s Guide to Public SpeakingI was lucky enough to get a preview copy of Present! A Techie’s Guide to Public Speaking. It was a helpful collection of tips for preparing and giving presentations, including the why and how of psyching yourself up to do it! As someone who reads a lot about giving good presentations (hello have you seen the newsletter)…
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A Process for Writing an Abstract
→: A Process for Writing an AbstractAs part of the Technically Speaking Anniversary last week I did two mentoring calls. Both of them focused on writing abstracts. This is cool, because one of the things I discovered when Chiu-Ki and I ran our workshop is that Abstract Writing is something of a speciality for me and I actually quite enjoy writing…
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Technically Speaking Anniversary & 2016 Speaking Goals
→: Technically Speaking Anniversary & 2016 Speaking GoalsA year ago Chiu-Ki and I met up in Copenhagen and decided to start a newsletter about public speaking in tech. Technically Speaking has been going ever since. We’ve learned a bunch about speaking (of course!) which we’ve shared with our readers. But also about running a sustainable project, and (gasp!) self promotion. A year in,…
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On Recent Events
→: On Recent EventsEarlier this year I withdrew from a conference because the organizer refused to implement a proper code of conduct (eventually he put up something but he refused to specify unacceptable behavior). I did not expect this to be such a contentious decision or one I would have to be reminded of nearly 6 months later.…
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#Øredev14: Danielle Sucher – Don’t Take it for Granted
→: #Øredev14: Danielle Sucher – Don’t Take it for GrantedMy notes from Danielle’s talk at Øredev14. Inspired by Le Ton Beau de Marot – Hofstadter. Different translations of the same poem, all different, all valid. UnionFind – categorize items into disjoint sets. Each item belongs to one, and only one set. Makes it really fast to query each item and find out what set…