Thread by @svpino

An easy change that will improve your communication immediately:

▫️ When explaining your progress, start from the end.

After that, take time to explain the next steps and go through the process you followed if needed.

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If you only had a couple of sentences to communicate what you did, how would you structure the message?

You wouldn't want to waste it listing out every single step you went through, right?

There's a much better way.

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You'll always be better off getting to the core of your findings right away.

▫️ What is the thing that everyone cares about?
▫️ What do they want to understand?

Only after that should you get into adjacent details.

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Let's imagine:

You are building a machine learning model.

You have been experimenting with different model architectures to see what works and what doesn't.

Your audience is eager to hear about your progress.

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Here is the outline of how I would structure that presentation:

1. "I found a model architecture that solves our problem."

2. "I'm still determining the best set of hyperparameters."

3. "Is there something specific you want to discuss?"

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Basically:

1. Here is where I got.
2. Here are the next steps.
3. Happy to dig deeper if necessary.

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Going through this exercise has a couple of benefits:

1. It forces you to think about what's important.

2. It keeps your audience engaged from the very beginning and ensures that everyone gets the core idea you are trying to convey.

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