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How to learn from a thing that's not your thing
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===Departmental Lectures, Colloquia, Special Speaker Things=== * If it's your department and during daylight hours, you probably should go. Because probably someone is noticing who goes. * What does the organizer do? When it's your turn to organize a thing like this, what will you need to know? * Unrelated to your thing? Thank goodness. Someone is about to save you a lot of time, because they'll summarize an area of knowledge and work for you, and that means you don't have to read the books and take the classes to at least be conversant enough in the topic to know it's not related to your thing -- or what the connections might be. * Imagine the dinner party conversation: if you wanted to explain your work to this speaker, would they care? Why? What connections might you make between your ideas and theirs to charmingly draw them into a conversation that's productive for you both? * Imagine the reviewer response: if the speaker were on a review panel, board, or other entity evaluating your work in a field of diverse work (most of which, like your thing, is not their thing....), why would they pick you and your work to publish, award, hire? What feedback would they have for your research? * What's at stake, why this speaker, how do they structure the argument, how would you do it, where do they fall short?
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