hot take: if you're giving a talk, and you haven't really prepared before hand, whether it's for an elite audience or a community meetup, you owe everyone in the room, listening to you make it up as you go, their time in ETH, based on their hourly consultation rate, bc time is our most scarce resource.

I have never attended a talk in my life where I would not digest more information more quickly from a transcript. I’ve been to countless noteworthy talks from John Glenn to Carl Sagan to bell hooks. Knowledge is not the value proposition. Rizz and aura is— to plagiarize Gen-Z.

Chocolate rainmaker. Singer. Thinker. Voice

Text transcripts are invaluable for absorbing information quickly and efficiently; more talks should provide them

Transcripts make information easier to digest than talks