Today I visited Yahoo New York, and gave a talk there. It was simultaneously broadcast to their other campus, so even though there were only about twenty of us in a little conference room, it might actually have been seen by about 150 people altogether.<\/p>\n
Usually when I visit a company, I first give a talk and then meet with people. But this time they arranged it the other way, with my talk coming at the end of the visit.<\/p>\n
Presumably this was because we were in NY, whereas the other campus is in California. Our afternoon lines up with their morning.<\/p>\n
And that turned out to be a really great thing. As I spoke with different research groups, I kept modifying my talk, dropping a few slides here, adding some images there, to align with my emerging understanding of our common research interests.<\/p>\n
By the time I gave the actual presentation, I was able to directly address very good questions that had come up in conversation only earlier that day. Which is really what everyone wanted out of the visit.<\/p>\n
It’s so much better this way. There shouldn’t be a talk before everyone has had a chance to talk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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