Lead Dev 2016 London: Hacking verbal communication systems

• Ryan Alexander / @RNAlexander / rnalexander.com
• a 10’ talk
• slides: https://speakerdeck.com/rnalexander/hacking-verbal-communications

A conversation is an exhange of ideas. How do we improve the flow control (who gets to talk) ?

See “occupy together”/“nuit debout” hand signals. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupy_movement_hand_signals)

The problems:

• latency: race conditions
• assholes: interrup conversation and marginalize voices