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I really enjoyed @benjamindickman's @TMWYFriends #TMWYF talk today, and you should check it out on YouTube! https://twitter.com/TMWYFriends/status/1354931130949120003?s=19
But in it he made an important point.
But in it he made an important point.
He had said, he hates talks where the speaker delights in losing the audience within 5-10 minutes, and is just there to show off, it's arrogant and cruel. He didn't want to give such a talk.
Incidentally, this may as well be the motto of @TMWYFriends and was also @katemath's entire original motivation for starting this.
And in the discussion about this, it was mentioned that this sort of conduct is a contributor to the imposter syndrome that's so prevalent in our discipline, which I agree with.
But thinking of imposter syndrome had me thinking about this issue from the other side.
But thinking of imposter syndrome had me thinking about this issue from the other side.
I don't mind saying that I am still, and likely always be a carrier of imposter syndrome. Usually when working, I can't prove something neat and cool, without my brain showing up within a few hours to say "eh, it was trivial anyway".
Then, when it comes time to present my work, I feel like I have maybe one or two things that takes some effort to explain, everything else is pretty trivial anyway, I'm afraid of wasting the audiences time and boring them. Maybe the framing might interesting or amusing to them.
But then the talk starts and it's clear I way over prepared, and am blowing through things that ought to be dissected and explained.
So while some people in the audience may have their imposter syndrome reinforced, it was my own which drove me to prepare the talk at such a high level. I'm not trying to deliberately lose the audience, I really couldn't fathom that anyone would have found it hard.
Its not good and it's something I'm working on.
I'm not sure what my point is to all this but it's just what I've been thinking about since the talk.
I'm not sure what my point is to all this but it's just what I've been thinking about since the talk.
