evacide
To write a 12-minute talk about the Opium Wars, I have written a 40-minute talk about the Opium Wars.
May 27 at 4:57amWeb
Show threadBen RushMay 27
@evacide Reasonable
Show threadMichael J. CoffeyMay 27
@evacide As a tea educator, I understand this 100%
Show threadMarcel WaldvogelMay 27
@evacide
Wasn't it Goethe who started a long letter with "Dear friend, I didn't have time to write you a short letter"?
Show threadjimkennedyMay 27
@marcel @evacide I thought it was Mark Twain, but it seems more likely to have been Blaise Pascal.
https://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/04/28/shorter-letter/
Quote Origin: If I Had More Time, I Would Have Written a Shorter Letter – Quote Investigator®

Show threadAllan ChowMay 27
@evacide brevity is hard!
Show threadJames M.May 27
@evacide that's a great first step.
Show threadAristotelis TzafaliasMay 27
@evacide is it a historical analogy of how the current US administration is going to "war" to protect the interests of social media and big tech whose addictive products are sowing chaos in foreign lands?
Show threadevacideMay 27
@aristot73 No.
Show threadCyberlyraMay 27
@evacide this is the way.
Show threadArlaturiMay 27
@evacide An interesting topic. Will it be posted anywhere accessible at some future date? Please.
Show threadWeird SocksMay 27
@evacide
"I can get you 40 minute talk with about 20 minutes of prep.
Oh you want a 15 minute talk?
That will take me a day. "
Show threadAnthony DavidMay 27
@evacide
In related news,we will be in Shanghai at the end of the week, and plan to visit Yu Yuan. All the biuldings have been rebuilt after the Opium Wars and the later Japanese invasion.
Show threadConfused Middle Aged DadMay 27
@evacide it is such a wild story I can see why. Some hard editing ahead
Show threadRoadskater, Ph.D.May 27
@evacide So, no time left for a following Q&A?
Show threadAndrei KucharavyMay 27
@evacide 40 minutes is already very condensed, kudos!
Show threadTobias KlausmannMay 27
@evacide Writing a good talk is like engineering: you've achieved perfection only when there's nothing left to remove from the final product.
Show threadjbMay 27

@evacide isn’t that standard?

Although, I’d love to hear your 30 minute talk on the opium wars.

After your 12 minute talk.