Researcher Sewon Min on giving great talks: every slide choice is intentional — tell your story, not the paper
TuhinChakr · x · 2026-10-30
Researcher Sewon Min shares her talk methodology after her CMU LTI job talk: good slides are extremely intentional. The paper already has all the information, so speakers must deliberately choose what to say, what to leave off slides, what to frame as a 'side note,' down to word choice and pauses — a good speaker tells the story they want to tell, not the paper.
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