Arrache-moi la tête

I gave a talk to 100 people the other day. It was a great opportunity to share some concepts I’ve discovered, and get feedback on my ability to do so.

Things that seemed to work:

• Giving examples of things I’m doing myself
• Giving tools for other to use
• Providing metaphor for complicated concept
• Sharing a counter-intuitive point of view
• Combining theory and examples
• Sharing lessons learnt from an experiment
• Looking at known elements in a new way
• Sharing specific results of a well-known company applying an approach
• Formulating things in a sticky way
• Referring to other contributors

Things that could have be improved:

• Not explaining enough the why behind a particular approach
• Explaining rationally something that is driven by intuition
• Not explaining the exceptions to the rule
• Asking a question to the crowd but not really listening
• Tapping only into my current experience only when referring to lessons learnt along the way