You -- Yes, You -- Can Speak at a Conference（你 -- 是的，你 -- 可以在会议上发言）

原文出处：https://engineering.appfolio.com/appfolio-engineering/2017/1/9/you-yes-you-can-speak-at-a-conference

I’ve been having this talk with the coworkers a lot lately. So let’s talk about it here, shall we?
我最近经常和同事讨论这个问题。所以，让我们在这里讨论一下，怎么样？

You, O budding programmer (or non-programmer) can speak at a conference. Better yet, you can speak in a useful way and somebody will enjoy it. Let’s talk about why.
不管你是一个菜鸟程序员或者非程序员，都可以在一场大型会议上发表看法。更好的方式是你可以用一种有效的方式说话并且其中的一些人会享受其中，让我们来讨论一下为什么会这样。

You’ve done a couple of weeks of work on something at some point, right? Maybe it was regular expressions. Or Ruby on Rails controllers. Or learned a little about Rust or Haskell. Or how to solve a Rubik’s cube. You’re literate (because you’re reading this post) which means you learned how to do something at some point.
你已经在某方面做了几周的工作了，对吧？或许是一个正则表达式。或者软件控制器。或者学习了一些Rust或Haskell语言的特性。或者如何破解魔方。你是有阅读能力的(因为你正在阅读这篇文章)，这意味着你在某种程度上学会了如何处理事情。

When you were doing that work, you know who would have been perfect to help you out? Future-you, a few weeks or months further along in the same task.
当你正在工作的时候，你知道最适合帮助你的人是谁吗？那就是独自在一个相同工作中经理几个星期或几个月的未来的你。

Six months on, you’ve forgotten a bunch of what problems you had. If you became amazing at the same task, you forgot everything you used to have trouble with (it turns out that it’s called “the curse of knowledge” and it’s totally a thing.)
一年半载之后，你可能已经忘记了很多曾经存在的问题。如果你在同一项工作中变得很出色，你就会忘记过去你所遇到的所有困难(事实证明，这叫做“知识的诅咒”，这完全是同一件事。)

Which means that whatever you’ve spent a few weeks on (or a few months, or a few years,) you are perfect to help out the person who is a few weeks behind you.
这意味着无论你花费了几周(或是几个月，几年)，你都可以很好的帮助那些落后你几个星期的人。

If you’re only a few weeks in, you can submit that as a talk to perfect beginners – and you’re the best person in the world to help them out.
如果你仅仅只学了几个星期，你可以把它作为一次演讲提交给那些初学者们 – 并且你会是这个世界上最适合帮助他们的人。

Or if you’ve been doing something for a few years (Ruby programming, databases, competitive eating), you’re the perfect person to help other people out who are farther along.
或者你正在做的事情已经持续了好几年(Ruby 编程，数据库，大胃王)，你会是最合适的人选去帮助那些正在走的更远的人。

If you’ve put the time into something, that’s a pretty good indicator that somebody finds it interesting. You did.
如果你把时间花在某些事情上，这是一个很好的证明你已经发现了这件事情的乐趣。

If you can’t find a talk about stuff you’re doing – great, you should give one!
如果你找不到你正在做的这件事情的演讲 --很好，你应该做一个出来！

So stop every week or three at work or play. Scribble down what you’re working on. And now next time you want to submit and idea for a talk, use one of those.
所以，每隔一个星期或者三个星期就暂停一下工作或者娱乐。粗略的梳理一下你正在做的工作。并且当下一次你想提出一个观点或者一份演讲时，就可以使用你整理的资料中的一份。

And you’ll know you’re the perfect person to give that talk. And you a few weeks (or months) earlier is who you should say the talk is for.
并且你知道你是演讲的最好人选。并且你造几个星期(或者几个月)就应该说这个演讲是为谁做的。

Got it?
明白了吗？