{"id":190,"date":"2005-04-04T17:12:42","date_gmt":"2005-04-04T07:12:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/?p=190"},"modified":"2005-04-04T17:12:42","modified_gmt":"2005-04-04T07:12:42","slug":"something-i-must-remember","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/something-i-must-remember\/","title":{"rendered":"Something I must remember"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When giving a talk, and I realize 10-15 minutes before the end that I&#8217;m not going to cover everything, <em>don&#8217;t<\/em> speed up.  There&#8217;s this oddball temptation to &#8220;cover everything&#8221;, but it&#8217;s a chimera &#8211; if I speed up, chances are very good that most of my audience doesn&#8217;t follow, so what have I gained?  Nothing.<\/p>\n<p>The better stategy  is to pause for moment to gather my thoughts, decide what the most important remaining point is, and then spend 5-10 minutes making that point in the clearest way possible.  Hard to remember in the heat of the moment, with the illusion of completeness beckoning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When giving a talk, and I realize 10-15 minutes before the end that I&#8217;m not going to cover everything, don&#8217;t speed up. There&#8217;s this oddball temptation to &#8220;cover everything&#8221;, but it&#8217;s a chimera &#8211; if I speed up, chances are very good that most of my audience doesn&#8217;t follow, so what have I gained? Nothing.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/something-i-must-remember\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Something I must remember<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}