Keynote Speaker – Ned Batchelder
summary
Keynote claims people behave like high-uncertainty components and gives a concrete model: every message carries information + sentiment, and missing sentiment defaults via history similarity and hidden state. Concrete tactics follow — say yes, use more words, choose words carefully, be humble, be explicit — illustrated with examples from coverage.py and Open edX work, letterpress smoke test history, keyboard macros for softening phrases, and doing quick retros to see what actually helped.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Start
- 10:23Soft skills
- 13:12Hidden state
- 13:54Non-linear
- 25:15Improve your chances
- 30:52Kindergarten
- 42:35Reflection
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