Axil Axil wrote:
A demo must be rehearsed and gone over and over again until it is
completely debugged and perfect.
Exactly right!
Rossi does not yet get this simple principle because he uses these
demos as on-the-fly design and unit testing tools. He has no respect
for his audience. He must think to himself “if you can't overlook my
bugs, then the hell with you because I have shown you this before”.
Right. I told him he has no respect for his audience. I told him:
"The instrumentation and set up were sloppy, thoughtless and
unprofessional. To me, this expressed contempt for the audience. It
said: 'I will not make any effort to convince you. You may have traveled
for hundreds of miles, but I will not bother to spend a few minutes
arranging this equipment, zeroing out the thermocouples, or placing the
probes in a way that will give you confidence in the results. You can
take it or leave it.'"
He was pretty upset with me. Still is.
- Jed
