In this week’s newsletter, I share why 3 is the magic number in presentations. I also recap my earlier posts on how I use ChatGPT Projects; what I will not automate; taking Kurt Vonnegut’s advice; solving the obituary photo problem; creating a book the traditional way with my students, and more!
I’m preparing a talk to researchers on how they can effectively communicate their scientific content to the public. I will share my approach using triads, which are all self-explanatory:
Structuring your presentation
- 3 ideas max in each deck.
- 3 bullets max on each slide.
- 30 minutes max for the main presentation (spent more time on the QnA!).
Designing your content
- eli5 (explain your ideas like I’m five).
- Imagery that captures the imagination.
- Love your topic and the audience, because it shows.
Delivering your content
- Make eye contact with those who are interested.
- Ignore those who are disinterested.
- Walk around the audience and see what the disinterested people are doing (usually their pointless emails).
And that’s it.
What I wrote recently
ChatGPT Projects is truly useful for knowledge work, and works almost as well as a custom GPT. But I’d bet you’ve never noticed it before.
What I will not automate with AI.
Kurt Vonnegut wrote: “Most letters from a parent contain a parent’s own lost dreams disguised as good advice.” Indeed, and I hope I have avoided that in my 22 years of parenting.
I have solved the problem of choosing my obituary photo.
Bringing a book to life the traditional way with my students at NTU. (There’s no other way to do this anyway).
Group photos can look so boring on LinkedIn. Here are two ways I’ve reworked my photos with my Gen AI workshop participants: the Japanese Woodcut style and the Crashing Waves style.
Four new ways to use text in Gen AI images. Some reverse-engineering is required.
Goodbye Microsoft Game Pass, you were great but you could never last.