I’ve been feeling very burned out recently, so, rather than writing the paper I'm working on, I went to a mini-workshop on “Applied Algebra and Geometry”. This post isn’t me shitting on anyone in particular at that workshop, but it did lead to me having a weird dream where I was stuck in a really terrible Haskell talk. The end result of that is this collection of advice, maybe a bit of a rant, about academic speaking, and which I am writing mostly because I repeat this whenever someone asks me to look over their slides or sit in on a practice talk. I do not consider myself a talented public speaker; I am just someone who has been to many and has opinions.
Counting Is Hard