I want to share an observation, because I am curious to know if it is merely due to coincidence or because of more general, cultural reasons.
I have noticed that even when giving a technical lecture, Americans will slip in 1-2 personal anecdotes into their talk. This seemed a bit weird. After witnessing this quite a few times, I asked a speaker, who explained that he thought it helped his audience connect with him better. Another writer (also American), who blogs about her work mentioned that she gets a more favorable response from her audience, (mainly American) on those posts where along with the description of some technology if she also mentioned how she felt about it.
I have not seen people from other countries do it nearly as much. In addition to Twitter, professors keeping online journals is still mainly an American phenomenon. I am curious, is this a cultural thing? Do you find that you like Krugman more, now that he has been revealing more of his non-professional interests by writing in his journal?
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Date: 2009-06-01 04:43 pm (UTC)From:I have noticed that even when giving a technical lecture, Americans will slip in 1-2 personal anecdotes into their talk. This seemed a bit weird. After witnessing this quite a few times, I asked a speaker, who explained that he thought it helped his audience connect with him better. Another writer (also American), who blogs about her work mentioned that she gets a more favorable response from her audience, (mainly American) on those posts where along with the description of some technology if she also mentioned how she felt about it.
I have not seen people from other countries do it nearly as much. In addition to Twitter, professors keeping online journals is still mainly an American phenomenon. I am curious, is this a cultural thing? Do you find that you like Krugman more, now that he has been revealing more of his non-professional interests by writing in his journal?