One of the most valuable things I’ve contributed to my workplace is the institution of a set of 3 lightning talks every two weeks. Our data science team is about 30 people and we have a special Slack react that indicates “I want to hear about this in a lightning talk” and the organization is thus (usually) as easy as searching for all posts/comments with the react without the “I’ve already processed this lightning talk request”, DMing the relevant person, and slotting them into the queue.
I wonder if there’s some mutation of this plan that would be valuable for LW. Maybe even to create Dialogues? The really valuable part of the tech is that anyone can look at a snippet that someone else wrote, realize they think they’d like to hear more on that and (thus) probably a lot of people would, and add it to an organizer’s todo list with very little effort.
Huh! That seems like a neat contribution and I might copy that for the next appropriate organization I’m a part of.
I would use an “I want to read the full post version of this comment” react, which might be the LessWrong website version. If I had a way to neatly collect Lightning Talk Request reacts for an in-person community I might use those too! Thank you for the suggestion. If enough people do have enough things to talk about the potential frequency for Lightning Talks goes way up.
One of the most valuable things I’ve contributed to my workplace is the institution of a set of 3 lightning talks every two weeks. Our data science team is about 30 people and we have a special Slack react that indicates “I want to hear about this in a lightning talk” and the organization is thus (usually) as easy as searching for all posts/comments with the react without the “I’ve already processed this lightning talk request”, DMing the relevant person, and slotting them into the queue.
I wonder if there’s some mutation of this plan that would be valuable for LW. Maybe even to create Dialogues? The really valuable part of the tech is that anyone can look at a snippet that someone else wrote, realize they think they’d like to hear more on that and (thus) probably a lot of people would, and add it to an organizer’s todo list with very little effort.
Huh! That seems like a neat contribution and I might copy that for the next appropriate organization I’m a part of.
I would use an “I want to read the full post version of this comment” react, which might be the LessWrong website version. If I had a way to neatly collect Lightning Talk Request reacts for an in-person community I might use those too! Thank you for the suggestion. If enough people do have enough things to talk about the potential frequency for Lightning Talks goes way up.