To write a 12-minute talk about the Opium Wars, I have written a 40-minute talk about the Opium Wars.
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@evacide Writing a good talk is like engineering: you've achieved perfection only when there's nothing left to remove from the final product.
@evacide 40 minutes is already very condensed, kudos!
@evacide So, no time left for a following Q&A?
@evacide it is such a wild story I can see why. Some hard editing ahead
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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.
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"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. "
@evacide Looking forward to this Criterion edition.
@evacide An interesting topic. Will it be posted anywhere accessible at some future date? Please.
@evacide this is the way.
@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?
@evacide that's a great first step.
@evacide brevity is hard!
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Wasn't it Goethe who started a long letter with "Dear friend, I didn't have time to write you a short letter"?
