As I wrote about here last week, I gave a ten minute talk in which I needed to summarize my vision for the future, and what we are doing to help make that vision happen. Ten minutes is not a long time, so the experience was a great exercise in learning how to focus.<\/p>\n
In a few days, I am going to give a similar talk. Except on this occasion, the time alotted to each speaker is limited to nine minutes.<\/p>\n
I will probably repurpose my ten minute talk, cut out some of the remaining fat, and practice a few times to make sure I indeed hit the nine minute mark. But that exercise raises an interesting question:<\/p>\n
What if, as a discipline, one were to talk a talk on some topic and keep iterating on it, each time shaving off one minute? At what point would it be an essentially different talk?<\/p>\n
Obviously there would be a dramatic change when the running time goes from “one minute” down to “zero minutes”. \ud83d\ude42 But what about other transitions?<\/p>\n
The intriguing thing for me about such an exercise is that it would force you to boil your ideas and your narrative down to the essential, while providing a framework for doing so. You could learn a lot from the choices you end up making about which ideas you keep, which you edit down, and which you simply throw away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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