@ijesspederson built my lunch with two (2) (both) pieces of end bread.
Giving talks drains me. It’s brutal to try to publicly convey information, to be the center of attention. I much much much prefer to be the one observing than the one speaking. But I feel like giving talks is important. So I speak. But it ain’t easy.
If you’ve spoken at conferences you can totally feel what she was going through. This reminds me a lot of a session I did for a bunch of staff where the shop teacher fell asleep and began snoring. Funny, sure. But what a mess.
Source: apophenia: spectacle at Web2.0 Expo… from my perspective
Education is a talent business and anyone who can gather the best talent will offer the best service and have the greatest success. This doesn’t mean that Stanford and MIT will die, far from it. But it means that some lesser institutions WILL die, while hybrid operations that are entirely new and different may well thrive.
Source: I, Cringely » Blog Archive » Burn Baby Burn – Cringely on Technology
Organizing community is the new professional development.
