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@MCDuncanLab @steveroyle everyone appreciates the jokes even if they're terrible though!

@MCDuncanLab @steveroyle personally I like more than a general idea. I want to know specifically what you're going to try to persuade me to believe so that I can pay attention to the details with a mind to whether or not it's the right way to answer the question. So often I listen to a talk and try to focus on the details and then at the end the big reveal of the result and I'm just left cold because I haven't been able to think about whether or not I can believe it.

@steveroyle @MCDuncanLab the thing that I've found is that no matter how much we think we're telling an exciting detective story, for the audience it's not as exciting as we'd imagine. I think in my whole career I've seen maybe 2 or 3 talks that pulled off the detective story.

@steveroyle @MCDuncanLab recently I started doing the first slide of my talk titled "TL;DR" where I try to tell the essential points of the whole talk in one slide, and telling the audience that they're welcome to go to sleep after this one slide if they want to. Quite a few people have told me they really like it, both those who did subsequently go to sleep, and those who found it useful for framing the rest of the talk. Doing social media threads has actually been really helpful for me, it's shown me that you can usually get the essential message over in very few words.

@roaldarboel @steveroyle @albertcardona not sure it helps. It still gives an advantage to publish more because you can select the best one.