Today I showed a demo to somebody, and right afterward, I realized things that I wanted to improve. Some of this was due to the reaction of the person I was demoing to, and some of it came out of thinking “Gosh, I wish I also could have shown …”<\/p>\n
And I realized, for the first time, that all of my years of showing demos has not been just to show demos. It has also been to learn<\/i> from the experience. And then to use that knowledge to make the demo better.<\/p>\n
It turns out that giving demos is an iterative experience: Learn from doing it, make it better, repeat.<\/p>\n
Which means, in essence, that a good demo is something that is organically grown, not from one person, but from an entire community. I kind of like that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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