That'll Never Work
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That'll Never Work
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#2What was the previous talk? You've piqued my interest now!
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#3What was the previous talk? You've piqued my interest now!
Linda Sandvik's talk about "Making Things Better" was a really touching talk. It started slowly and I thought it wasn't going to be good but it just got better and better over time: http://vimeo.com/53074443
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#4What was the previous talk? You've piqued my interest now!
Linda Sandvik's talk about "Making Things Better" was a really touching talk. It started slowly and I thought it wasn't going to be good but it just got better and better over time: http://vimeo.com/53074443
Mandatory plug for the HNLondon Vimeo page: http://vimeo.com/hnlondon
A collection of all our previous speakers including jgc (obviously) Eben Upton, Rand Fishkin, Joel Spolsky and many more.
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#5Never heard you speak before, jgrahamc. Enjoyed the video immensely.
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#6John's a good speaker and has done a few "crazy" things.
However I thought this talk was going to be about the wingnut ideas that really will never work because they defy human nature / currently known laws of physics / principles of good software design / basic logic / etc.
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#7John's a good speaker and has done a few "crazy" things. However I thought this talk was going to be about the wingnut ideas that really will never work because they defy human nature / currently known laws of physics / principles of good software design / basic logic / etc.
That's a great talk idea. I really want at some time to do one called "7 minutes to Tranquility Base" detailing all the stuff that happened in the last 7 minute before Aldrin and Armstrong landed on the moon. A lot of interesting technical stuff work and failed in those critical minutes.
And if you can't get enough of me speaking about random stuff, here's my StrataConf talk: http://blog.jgc.org/2012/10/the-great-railway-caper-big-data...
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#8John's a good speaker and has done a few "crazy" things. However I thought this talk was going to be about the wingnut ideas that really will never work because they defy human nature / currently known laws of physics / principles of good software design / basic logic / etc.
What's "human nature"? Human nature, if anything, is adaptability. What feels "natural" to us is largely determined by our socialisation and our environment (i.e., things which we can change).
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#9John's a good speaker and has done a few "crazy" things. However I thought this talk was going to be about the wingnut ideas that really will never work because they defy human nature / currently known laws of physics / principles of good software design / basic logic / etc.
What's "human nature"? Human nature, if anything, is adaptability. What feels "natural" to us is largely determined by our socialisation and our environment (i.e., things which we can change).
I was specifically thinking about Communism when I wrote that.
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#10Never heard you speak before, jgrahamc. Enjoyed the video immensely.
Thanks.
I'm more than happy to speak at people's events on the following conditions:
1. I have something to say. I never give the same talk twice so I usually need quite a lot of warning so that I have time to come up with something original.
2. It's convenient for me to get there.
3. The talk is videoed and made public. Since I'm not being paid my pay is publicity.