This evening I gave a talk about my group’s research.<\/p>\n
From a practical level the timing was completely absurd. Tomorrow morning I need to take a train to start a semester sabbatical at MIT, then two days after that I need to fly to the West Coast, and then to Chicago for the AAAS meeting a week after that, and of course I have a million things to do before leaving NY.<\/p>\n
So why did I agree to give a talk just now?<\/p>\n
I’ve come to realize that I did it precisely because<\/i> all of these things. I needed to force myself to get up in front of a group of people and take stock, to take a risk during a time of transition, to show brand new demos of brand new research that I’ve never shown before.<\/p>\n
You can stay in a little bubble and work on your stuff, and of course you’ll like whatever you’re doing. But in moments of change, it is important to get outside opinions.<\/p>\n
In this case, what I learned from peoples’ reactions, from their questions, to which parts they liked or didn’t like, was worth its weight in gold.<\/p>\n
In a very important way, giving a talk about your research is itself a kind of research.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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