I received the best compliment from an audience member after my #LeafComputing#APICon talk: “A new high bar—I didn’t even look at my phone once during your talk!”
Video of my talk should be posted next week by the conference. I will get my slides with transcript posted tomorrow. If you are an eager beaver, you can get a first preview at https://www.LeafComputing.net
I am excited to share how #LeafComputing is a more secure, more resilient, more ecological, and more cost-effective alternative to #CloudComputing later this month.
Slides ready for Thursday! New personal record of 1 slide per 24 seconds of the talk, 76 in total. Will publish online after. I am so excited to give this talk! #APICon
I am leaning Swedish at my own pace and ability for my own curiosity, not because it is required for getting a job/running a business (it’s not) or because rando SD & Moderate voters yell at me online.
I just want to be able to talk to Swedes in social settings without feeling like I’m imposing. That’s it. That’s the big benefit.
For nearly everything else, there’s machine translation or someone willing to speak English. This is a good thing.
• keep their host country’s dominant culture alive
• keep their host country’s language globally relevant
Being a contributing member of society economically while dealing with displacement is a difficult enough task without a host country adding its own cultural insecurities onto an immigrant.
English and French are unnecessarily difficult languages. I wish we had a better international standard. I wish Esperanto were more widely known and used.
The hard truth:
Every economy with a declining birthrate that is then dependent upon immigrant labor and attracting the brightest minds to out-innovate other economies should be enthusiastically welcoming people fluent in the world’s most common languages instead of sulking about not being as popular.
@iband I love this kind of sharing. Idioms often reveal larger cultural insights and they still require explaining because the literal translations don’t make sense.
“They slid in on a shrimp sandwich” meaning “when someone hasn’t had to work to get where they are” is one of my fav Svenska phrases 🤣
I'm mostly just tired of rando Swedes online being mad at me for not being fluent in their language by the time I became a citizen or discounting every damn thing I say about my experience in Stockholm because I am not yet fluent.
@tharper Yeah, I need to move to classes. The apps have helped me with reading, but my listening and speaking are still shit. I plan to make time for this once I get through some health stuff.