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WhyWeDoNotGiveTalks

Powerpoint is beside the point. We at AYE are not working from a model of "what's the best way to get all the brilliant things I know into your empty head?"

We are working from a model that says either you have it in your head already and simply need to be jiggled a little so you have access to it, or if you don't have it in your head, pouring it in there by talking to you or reading slides to you isn't the way it's going to get in there and stay there and be accessible to you. The way that happens best is if we create an environment in which you are likely to discover something useful to you, something that will stick, and something you will actually apply. And we don't know in advance just what that will be. How could we? How arrogant we would be if we believed that we could do that!

So, we offer you situations, environments, simulations, in which you have expressed interest, dramatic and engaging situations, and then we rely on your intelligence to create or discover what you need. For that, Powerpoint is beside the point, and so are "talks" in whatever form.- JerryWeinberg 2005.07.31

1. Here's some things I/we considered and here's my/our conclusion; or
2. Here's something to think about and a simulation to get the juices flowing,

I've chosen b for each of the last three years. I can (and sometimes do) read the former, in greater depth, in the Proceedings, so it's not like I'm giving something up. But for b, you have to be there.

MikeMelendez 2005.08.01