This Friday: live Q&A session (2022-07-22 @2PM PDT) (Patreon)

[Edit: oof, I accidentally recorded with no sound! Apologies! Thankfully, all who sent me questions came live, at least. We'll try something different next month…]

Hello, all! This Friday (July 22) at 2PM PDT, I'll be hosting a live Q&A session. [Add to your calendar]

I'm happy to (try to) answer questions about whatever you might like: design, engineering, cognitive psych / learning science, independent research, memory systems, new media, etc.

Here's the Google Meet link! I̵'̵l̵l̵ ̵r̵e̵c̵o̵r̵d̵ ̵t̵h̵i̵s̵ ̵a̵n̵d̵ ̵s̵h̵a̵r̵e̵ ̵a̵ ̵v̵i̵d̵e̵o̵ ̵a̵f̵t̵e̵r̵w̵a̵r̵d̵s̵.̵  (oops)

Send me questions by commenting on this post, sending me email, or showing up for the live session. I'll make space for live question-askers and discussion around the questions.

Background rumination

I'm trying this Q&A format in lieu of office hours this month. I've been glad to run the office hours experiment, but I'd like to branch out and try some other formats—I can't help feeling those sessions are stuck in a bit of a local minimum.

I was hoping that people would bring interesting work-in-progress I/others could dig into and learn from, but it seems like most folks are more interested in more informal requests for advice or information. That's fine, of course, but I bet it'd be more valuable to more people in a recorded, write-in format—the live format really shines for demos, fine-grained back-and-forth, etc. 

I also get the sense that some office hours attendees like just being able to hang out with other people interested in "weird new computer ideas". I wonder how best to support that sort of thing in an ongoing way. I know Discord and Slack are popular in some communities, but I haven't been able to make them work for me—too scatterbrain-making. Maybe intermittent coordinated gather.town hangout time or something? I'm curious if other folks have ideas or have seen this done well elsewhere.

Other comments and ideas on event formats are very welcome!