I appreciate your frank oppenness to feedback! I'd like to give you some, but first I want to call out that (1) I'm certainly no expert and (2) you may have been voluntold to make a powerpoint on material that isn't well-fit for powerpoint.
My feedback:
- I think you could improve by being more excited / exciting (the Death By Powerpoint slide deck says "passionate"). Personally, I try to mitigate this problem by drinking coffee shortly before I'm expected to be engaging. It is a drug, and for me it works.
- You could also draw the main impactful points out of the background info. The presentation you give here has a lot of deep technical detail, which is certainly of interest for the correct audience, but I think generally fits poorly in a powerpoint presentation. I think you'd generally want to focus on more high-level performance characteristics, or particularly interesting details. Perhaps a 3-4 page document would be better for this sort of deep technical material. Or maybe the level of detail is actually perfect, and I'm just not the correct audience.
I really love your response here. You seem like a great person, I think your coworkers are lucky to have you.
The presentation was mainly for the audience that was present at the conference, which was mainly people who have used jj for a relatively long time, so I think part of the problem is just a mismatch between audiences there and on YouTube.
I agree about being more exciting. Not sure how to improve that :P I drink too much coffee all the time that I don't notice any difference. Harder drugs, perhaps :)
Which is fair as is not expecting everyone to be able to deliver a barnstorming talk. At least not without training.
I'd also flag that the audio is not good which isn't your fault. The trend towards conferences just pointing a camera at a lectern and throwing the footage on YouTube is unfortunate especially when it replaces circulating the slides as opposed to augmenting them. As a form of archive for attendees to review it works but not as a distribution channel.
Most of my family and extended American family doesn’t really invest. I think probably 10% of us “believe” in the stock market. The rest sometimes buy houses (which I encourage because it’s better than nothing), but otherwise are planning on social security, pensions, and lump-sum savings to cover their retirement
In short, yes, but my family is very cheap, so it is doable with sacrifice. I think I'm middle class (or maybe upper-middle?) now, but I think I'm the first generation that can say that. And even I rented closets, garages, and spaces behind TV's until about 4 years ago, lol.
That’s a good point, which immediately makes me curious — how many of the smallest sp500 companies could nvidia outright purchase (or obtain a majority stake in)? It’s just a curiosity, not trying to demand an answer. I might look at it tomorrow if I have time
5 years is a pretty long time to predict with confidence. Definitely agree that "the markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent", but 5 years would be unusually long if you believe we're already in a bubble.
> Just for this effort, this paper deserves Credit. Bravo.
I just went out and did a study myself. But I got 10,000 people, and 100% of the participants gave usable data, with a full record of every action taken, and every possible result. My study shows with 99.99% confidence that vit D is actually _bad_ for you. I hope you will congratulate my positive result (saving people from the dangerous effects of vit D !!) Or at the very least, congratulate me for my effort.
Obviously I completely fabricated that. Do you see how _claiming_ something doesn't mean it's true? Can you see the many red flags in my paragraph above? The other posters are pointing out similar red flags in the main article that's been shared.
My account is a couple years old, and I’ll agree with what fekxpurrrt said — you expressed doubt without evidence, people challenged your doubt, and you’ve never really satisfied their objections. The experts do know more than you. A brief Wikipedia investigation corroborates what the experts have said. They seem trustworthy, it’s unclear why your doubt should be taken seriously.
Everyone is wrong sometimes. When you realize you’re wrong, do you update your beliefs to be correct, or do you double down?
> every nuclear power depends on their free ports to store artworks
Am I misunderstanding this? Why would artwork stop a war? If I’m fighting a war, I would not flinch at destroying eg the Mona Lisa, and I’m fairly certain heads of state wouldn’t either.
Sorry, I'm genuinely really trying to understand what you're saying here. Can you elaborate a bit? Are you asking if I personally am neutral? Are you meaning to say that your comment should have said "neutral power" instead of "nuclear power"? Are you trying to say something else? I just cannot understand this thread. Do you genuinely believe that art can stop war? how?
Tom7 is one of my favorite people, he is hilarious, has an amazing technical depth, and so much whimsy to go along with it. I'll proselytize for him all day!
Definitely. In fact, I'll say it is the same in almost _every_ interpersonal relationship. I engage with my parents, grandparents, siblings, etc in specific ways that we have agreed we have overlap. Depending on the person, I soften my utopian ideals, my fascination with drugs, my progressive-ness, my math memes, even my accent when I talk. I don't think this is unhealthy, I think this is just what it means to be alive. I express my "authentic self" through my life as a whole, and it is probably witnessed by no individual person; only I can see / enjoy it.
What a time it was to be alive before the Culture War (tm) in San Francisco.
I worked at a household name tech company and you could draw a pie chart of Libertarian, (Self described) Communist, Progressive, Anarchists, and everything in between. Drugs weren't really controversial but you had an entire spectrum of personalities and drugs that were popular in different groups. Everyone kind of accepted each other to be honest.
There was pretty much no point in time in American history where people just accepted each other.
This kind of stuff is very easy to say when you might be a person who is easy to accept. In general, Life is pretty smooth sailing if you don't trot too much off the beaten path - and that, unfortunately, includes immutable characteristics.
Generally, if you ask other people about the same time frame, you will get different answers.
My feedback:
- I think you could improve by being more excited / exciting (the Death By Powerpoint slide deck says "passionate"). Personally, I try to mitigate this problem by drinking coffee shortly before I'm expected to be engaging. It is a drug, and for me it works.
- You could also draw the main impactful points out of the background info. The presentation you give here has a lot of deep technical detail, which is certainly of interest for the correct audience, but I think generally fits poorly in a powerpoint presentation. I think you'd generally want to focus on more high-level performance characteristics, or particularly interesting details. Perhaps a 3-4 page document would be better for this sort of deep technical material. Or maybe the level of detail is actually perfect, and I'm just not the correct audience.
I really love your response here. You seem like a great person, I think your coworkers are lucky to have you.
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