SwingDancerMike

• SwingDancerMike 11 Jul 2012 13:27 UTC

  5 points

  in reply to: falenas108’s comment on: Ra­tion­al­ity and Cancer

  Thanks. I’m not entirely sure about the 10%, but you’re right: When we run the math on breast cancer given a positive mammogram, it’s typically a few percent, not 0.01%.

  By the way, lest people worry about me too much, my dentist thinks it’s most likely pre-cancerous, and that if we remove it now, there’s nothing to worry about. Or rather, that it’s most likely nothing, maybe pre-cancerous, but probably not actual cancer yet.

• SwingDancerMike 27 Jun 2012 14:40 UTC

  2 points

  in reply to: MixedNuts’s comment on: Lead­ing Dis­cus­sions: Ad­dress­ing Time Monopolizers

  Good point. I actually don’t have any experience with that, but maybe you could write up some tips and I’ll add a section? Or write up an article and we’ll link to each other? Thanks!

• SwingDancerMike 21 Jun 2012 18:46 UTC

  5 points

  in reply to: TimS’s comment on: Lead­ing Dis­cus­sions: Ad­dress­ing Time Monopolizers

  Great feedback, guys. I added 2 paragraphs to clarify. (One below the bullet list of how to identify a monopolizer, the other below the italicized paragraph of what to say after the event.) Let me know what you think.

  And I have another post in the works focused on getting quiet people to join in the conversation.

• SwingDancerMike 21 Jun 2012 18:32 UTC

  13 points

  in reply to: TimS’s comment on: Lead­ing Dis­cus­sions: Ad­dress­ing Time Monopolizers

  Thanks, both of you. I wish I had references for this, but this is based on my experience as a professional teacher. I have 10+ years experience, starting with martial arts in high school, then running a dance studio, and now designing and teaching classes on software security. I’m sure I read some of these items somewhere, but I can’t recall where anymore.

• SwingDancerMike 21 Jun 2012 16:45 UTC

  11 points

  on: Lead­ing Dis­cus­sions: Ad­dress­ing Time Monopolizers

  By the way, this is my first post here. Please feel free to comment on style, presentation, tags, and anything else, in addition to pointing out anything that’s confusing and suggesting additions. Also, it feels to me like this needs some kind of conclusion or summary or some other point at the end, what do you think? Thanks!

• SwingDancerMike 20 Jun 2012 21:57 UTC

  2 points

  in reply to: SwingDancerMike’s comment on: Wel­come to Less Wrong!

  Yay 5 points! That was quick. Thanks everyone.

• SwingDancerMike 20 Jun 2012 19:37 UTC

  14 points

  on: Wel­come to Less Wrong!

  Hi everyone, I’ve been reading LW for a year or so, and met some of you at the May minicamp. (I was the guy doing the swing dancing.) Great to meet you, in person and online.

  I’m helping Anna Salamon put together some workshops for the meetup groups, and I’ll be posting some articles on presentation skills to help with that. But in order to do that, I’ll need 5 points (I think). Can you help me out with that?

  Thanks

  Mike