Adam Bede

    M11: Data Comms

    • “Who says I know anything?”
    • Story tell vs. make
      • Invoke senses, more than retelling the facts
      • Emphatic and expressive
      • Embellishment
      • Adapt to the audience
      • Relevance + resonance
      • Geometry of stories
    • Chip & Dan Heath
    • Florence Nightingale and John Snow + chlorea
    • Abraham Wold and Jordan Ellenberg
      • survivorship, counterfactuals, and ?
    • Colin Wood and the isolated frame doesn’t tell the full story. An N of 1 is meaningless
    • Joseph Goebells famous picture by a Jew
    • Iraq bloody death toll —> Iraq’s deaths on decline

    Succes(s)

    • Simple
    • Unexpected
    • Concrete
    • Credible
    • Emotional
    • Story

    What does my audience need to Know to get them to Do what

    • What does knowledge unlock?

    23 Jan 1961

    • Russia and Nuke, and accidental detonation
    • Never just about the information you have…

    Audience: know —> do —> & the ?s they’ll ask

    • 5Ws & H