{"id":1235676,"date":"2025-02-27T17:47:01","date_gmt":"2025-02-27T22:47:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1235676"},"modified":"2025-02-27T17:47:01","modified_gmt":"2025-02-27T22:47:01","slug":"mckenney-speaking-at-kernel-recipes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1235676","title":{"rendered":"McKenney: Speaking at Kernel Recipes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Paul McKenney has put together <a href=\"https:\/\/people.kernel.org\/paulmck\/kernel-recipes-2025\">a series of<br \/>\narticles<\/a> on how to improve one&#8217;s ability to give a good talk at a<br \/>\ntechnical conference.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"bq\"><p>\n\tOn the other hand, (1) presentation skills stay with you through<br \/>\n\tlife, and (2) small improvements in presentation skills over months<br \/>\n\tor years can provide you with great advantages longer term. An old<br \/>\n\tsaying credited to Thomas Edison claims a breakdown of 1%<br \/>\n\tinspiration and 99% perspiration.  However, my own experience with<br \/>\n\tRCU has instead been 0.1% inspiration, 9.9% perspiration, and 90%<br \/>\n\tcommunication.  Had I been unable to communicate effectively,<br \/>\n\tothers would have extreme difficulty using RCU, as in even more<br \/>\n\tdifficulty than they do now.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\nThere is a lot of speaking experience distilled into this set of posts.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul McKenney has put together a series of articles on how to improve one&#8217;s ability to give a good talk at a technical conference. On the other hand, (1) presentation skills stay with you through life, and (2) small improvements &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1235676\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72,116,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1235676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux","category-lwn-net","category-unfiltered-rss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1235676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1235676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1235676\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1235676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1235676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1235676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}