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  • Aaron Parecki
    I like giving talks, but I hate writing talk abstracts! How do I fix this?
    Portland, Oregon, USA • 55°F
    Wed, Oct 6, 2021 5:37pm -07:00
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    • Matt Bepler twitter.com/mattbepler
      talkgenerator.ai
      Thu, Oct 7, 2021 5:17pm +00:00 (via brid.gy)
    • Aaron Parecki twitter.com/aaronpk
      here you are trying to be actually helpful and I've just gone and set up a new parody twitter account @wtf_oauth now back to work, let me actually read this now πŸ˜…
      Thu, Oct 7, 2021 2:20am +00:00 (via brid.gy)
    • Gabe Cohen twitter.com/_gabecohen
      I got something about avoiding pricing overheads from Netflix and YouTube, without mentioning pricing, Netflix or YouTube. There’s definitely a hit list
      Thu, Oct 7, 2021 1:26am +00:00 (via brid.gy)
    • Aaron Parecki twitter.com/aaronpk
      I think copy.ai has it out for Khan Academy "I want to start a company based around making great educational content on truly complex concepts like OAuth. Think Khan Academy but also feel like you're talking with an expert."
      Thu, Oct 7, 2021 1:21am +00:00 (via brid.gy)
    • Not Fake Adam Kalsey twitter.com/akalsey
      And now your experiencing the pain of your bad decisions.
      Thu, Oct 7, 2021 1:19am +00:00 (via brid.gy)
    • Aaron Parecki twitter.com/aaronpk
      That would very likely get me a better result than feeding this AI 3 sentences and having it come up with comedy gold like this: "OAuth is like having the Facebook app on your phone, but you are using the same password that you are using for everything else."
      Thu, Oct 7, 2021 1:18am +00:00 (via brid.gy)
    • Jesse Vincent twitter.com/obra
      Write the full talk, then train a neural net to summarize the transcript.
      Thu, Oct 7, 2021 1:13am +00:00 (via brid.gy)
    • Aaron Parecki twitter.com/aaronpk
      I actually mostly do, but for this one I want to branch out and approach things differently
      Thu, Oct 7, 2021 1:12am +00:00 (via brid.gy)
    • Not Fake Adam Kalsey twitter.com/akalsey
      Give the same talk repeatedly.
      Thu, Oct 7, 2021 1:11am +00:00 (via brid.gy)
    • John Allsopp twitter.com/johnallsopp
      what I usually say to speakers is a rough title and 3-4 bullet points of what you want to cover as a start-I think why it's challenging is folks try to "sell" the talk from the get go, rather than refine the focus, then worry about selling it
      Thu, Oct 7, 2021 1:03am +00:00 (via brid.gy)
    • Cace Hudson twitter.com/extantproject
      … or you could just refuse to write abstracts? (IDK?)
      Thu, Oct 7, 2021 1:01am +00:00 (via brid.gy)
    • Cace Hudson twitter.com/extantproject
      Hire someone to write abstracts?
      Thu, Oct 7, 2021 1:00am +00:00 (via brid.gy)
    • Aaron Parecki twitter.com/aaronpk
      oh but this sentence it made is gold: "Developed for internal use at Google, OAuth is an elegant solution to making web services easy to use while keeping your private data private."
      Thu, Oct 7, 2021 12:50am +00:00 (via brid.gy)
    • Aaron Parecki twitter.com/aaronpk
      well now I'm trying to describe what I'm trying to write about and realizing that if I could do that well that would be the CFP πŸ˜…
      Thu, Oct 7, 2021 12:48am +00:00 (via brid.gy)
    • Aaron Parecki twitter.com/aaronpk
      oh my god it's repeating sentences back to me that I've written in blog posts and other places online πŸ˜‚
      Thu, Oct 7, 2021 12:47am +00:00 (via brid.gy)
    • tim cappalli twitter.com/timcappalli
      πŸ˜‚
      Thu, Oct 7, 2021 12:45am +00:00 (via brid.gy)
    • Gabe Cohen twitter.com/_gabecohen
      copy.ai
      Thu, Oct 7, 2021 12:42am +00:00 (via brid.gy)
    • John Allsopp twitter.com/johnallsopp
      shoot it over and I'll write it for you! :-)
      Thu, Oct 7, 2021 12:41am +00:00 (via brid.gy)
    • Aaron Parecki twitter.com/aaronpk
      wow that is next level! πŸ’―
      Thu, Oct 7, 2021 12:41am +00:00 (via brid.gy)
    • John Allsopp twitter.com/johnallsopp
      this is why I write a lot of the abstracts for speakers at our conferences! I know speakers often hate this bit the most!
      Thu, Oct 7, 2021 12:38am +00:00 (via brid.gy)
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Hi, I'm Aaron Parecki, Director of Identity Standards at Okta, and co-founder of IndieWebCamp. I maintain oauth.net, write and consult about OAuth, and participate in the OAuth Working Group at the IETF. I also help people learn about video production and livestreaming. (detailed bio)

I've been tracking my location since 2008 and I wrote 100 songs in 100 days. I've spoken at conferences around the world about owning your data, OAuth, quantified self, and explained why R is a vowel. Read more.

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