Becoming unLLMable

slides + transcript of my presentation at the Sana AI Summit in Stockholm

Making Slides

I was asked to give a short talk in my Departmental Proseminar yesterday on the topic of giving presentations, and specifically about making slides effective. There is more than one way to give a good talk, and there is more than one way to make “good slides” or—better—make good use of slides and other material you might want to show people. So the things I’ll talk about and especially the specific techniques I’ll discuss are selected from many good ways to present yourself and your work. Presenting is a two-sided process, where you should be comfortable with what you are saying (and how you’re saying it), on one side, and where your audience should be able to follow along and understand your message, on the other.

My productivity app is a never-ending .txt file

The biggest transition for me when I started college was learning to get organized. There was a point when I couldn't just remember everything in my head. And having to constantly keep track of things was distracting me from whatever task I was doing at the moment.

Sharing Notes about Collective Intelligence — Pop Junctions

Last week, my travels took me to San Antonio where I delivered one of the keynote addresses at the Educause Learning Initiative conference -- a gathering focused on the application of technology for learning at the college and university level. My presentation, "What Wikipedia Can Teach Us Ab

cybersemics/em

A beautiful, minimalistic note-taking app for personal sensemaking.

Three Presentation Styles

Three Completely Different Ways to Pitch Ideas

Movie Review: The AI Doc

The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist is a brilliant piece of work.

Jermolene — learning to program since 1978

In April 2024 I gave the opening keynote at the software industry conference “QCon London” under the title "The Home Computer That Roared: How the BBC Micro Shaped Our World".