I wouldn’t expect it to; better information, without power to act on it, doesn’t do much.
That said, this’d be one of those things where you can say “this is my prediction”, and if it doesn’t come true, go looking for the forces and factors you missed from your initial prediction.
Pro tip: Every other slide (ish) is a joke referencing / setting up the next slide. Gives you a beat to change gears, keeps the audience really engaged, and lightens the mood. Also ensures you’re breaking things up into bite-sized pieces.
I gave a talk with a section on curried functions and interspersed the content slides with pictures of Tim Curry, for example.
Jokes can be tricky in talks, as they rely on shared cultural context. If you know your audience well and know what will land with them it's great, if you don't then care is needed.
I generally advise people to put some jokes in if they like but don't make the talk rely on people getting the jokes.
but don't make the talk rely on people getting the jokes
Adding to this, don't automatically include in your joke delivery. Make the joke - if it lands and the audience is laughing, you can pause until it dies down. If the joke doesn't land, you just move on and everyone will forget about it.
Anecdotally / personally experienced; bad trips happen “when you get stuck”. The #1 thing to do in such a situation is to change the music. The #2 thing to do is, quite literally, go to the bathroom and take a shit.
It’s extremely analogous to anything that would make a normal day into a bad day.
That makes sense. I think I have approached becoming stuck. I reached a kind of extreme disassociated state once where I felt like I didn't exist and part of my brain started to panic. I meditate a lot. I reminded the part of me that was becoming anxious that we are okay because we are somehow still observing ourselves so we must still exist. That was apparently adequate to calm it lol. It is truly weird to negotiate with some part of your brain and see it work in real time. I think it was a particularly sticky day for my DMN and or some particular loop it was hanging on to? It is always hard to say.
Architecture, then clockwork, then steam, then machines, now computing.
I don’t think it’s wrong in anyway to do this, but I do think it’s interesting!