Last week at VizChitra, I ran a “Dialogue” session. A new format for me. I usually speak 80% in my workshops. In this dialog, I spoke 20%. The group discussed. PART A I showed 6 charts and said, “Pick the best.” Then I shared the audience & purpose and asked: “For THIS audience and purpose, will you publish, fix, or kill it?” INSIGHT: almost no one said, “Ship”. That’s good – these were all drafts. ...
I deliver about 3-5 talks a month and usually prepare for them. Thanks to AI (but even otherwise), I have a steady stream of new content. So, I just to assemble the story. For example, in my TEDx Whitefield talk “Prisoners of Birth”, I shared the impact of name, gender, lineage, place, and time of birth. I didn’t execute any new analysis. I just cherry-picked disparate analyses into a theme. (Took me three days to plan, though.) ...
My last two presentations used browser tabs as slides. For my talk last week titled Your Chotu Is Smarter Than You Think, I planned to show a series of examples. I loaded them all in a browser window as tabs like this: How I use AI to navigate toilets How I use AI for food recommendation How I use AI for book suggestions What else I can use AI for … Once loaded, I can press Ctrl+PgDn to move to the next - just like I’d press the right arrow key in a slide deck. I can also use the mouse to click on the tab if I want to jump around. ...
25 years ago, Mr. Krishnan (IAS) amused us with anecdotes of bureaucrats writing meeting minutes before the meeting. This week, I flipped that. I wrote slides after the talk. I call them AfterSlides. Why. I ran a couple of Ask-Me-Anything (AMA) sessions where the audience set the agenda. I learned their interests. They got answers. No slides prepared. How. I okayed recording with the organizers, recorded on my phone, transcribed with Gemini, and asked ChatGPT to generate the AfterSlides. ...
At PyConf Hyderabad, I spoke about uv. It's a package manager for Python. I usually mix live demos into my narrative. So, rather than present with something static like PowerPoint (or Google Slides), I usually use: Front-end: Custom HTML mixed with RevealJS and CodePen. Observable is a good, too. Python: Jupyter Notebooks. Marimo is good, too. Others: Markdown and VS Code for most other things, e.g. SQL. For this talk, I needed to run commands on the shell. I evaluated: ...
It's surprisingly easy to clone a voice using F5-TTS: "A Fairytaler that Fakes Fluent and Faithful Speech with Flow Matching". Here's a clip of me, saying: I think Taylor Swift is the best singer. I've attended every one of her concerts and in fact, I've even proposed to her once. Don't tell anyone. (Which is ironic since I didn't know who she was until this year and I still haven't seen or heard her.) ...
This week, I learned: Luma Labs Dream Machine generated videos. It’s free and is of reasonable quality. Update: 6 Jun 2025. Costs $10/month LLM DataHub has LLM training datasets, regularly updated From Dan Becker on running a workshop Answer questions at the end, not in parallel in a chat, to avoid distraction Have fewer words in slides when presenting. It’s less distracting Morgan Housel Shane Parrish podcast Risk is what stops you from achieving YOUR goals. What’s risky for me may not be risky for you The lesson from compounding is that you want to optimize for duration, not return. That’s what does the heavy lifting. Survival, consistency, long term - these matter. The performance does NOT matter.
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