Here are some show notes for a keynote lecture to a general audience in Indiana. This was recorded in April 2023.
| Minute | Topic |
| 2:00 | “SMET” vs STEM Education – Does Messaging Matter? (Previous blog post on SMET) |
| 5:00 | Is Computer Programming a “Dirty Job”? Air conditioning, compensating differentials, and the nap pods of Silicon Valley (post on the 1958 BLS report) |
| 7:50 | Wages and employment outlook for computer occupations |
| 10:00 | Presenting my experimental research paper “Willingness to be Paid: Who Trains for Tech Jobs?” in 23 minutes Motivation and Background 10:00 – 15:30 Experimental Design 15:30 – 22:00 Results 22:00 – 30:00 Discussion 30:00 – 33:30 |
| 33:50 | Drawbacks to tech jobs See also my policy paper published by the CGO on tech jobs and employee satisfaction |
| 35:30 | The 2022 wave of layoffs in Big Tech and vibing TikTok Product Managers I borrowed a graph on Tech-cession from Joey Politano and a blog point from Matt Yglesias, and of course reference the BLS. |
| 39:00 | Should You Learn to Code? (and the new implications of ChatGPT) Ethan Mollick brought this Nature article to my attention. Tweet credits to @karpathy and @emollick |
| 48:00 | Q&A with audience |
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