Advice for Workshop Attendees - by Vishal Prasad

I got on a soapbox and made this point at Inkhaven residents earlier this week. I think what I said was boring and vague, and I’d like to take another swing at articulating it. I’ve observed that this is common: People attend a 1-week, 2-week, or 1-month workshop about X. There, they distill some big goals related to X, and feel really energized about it. One month after the workshop, that glow has worn off. Six months after, their workflow around X is indistinguishable from what it was pre-workshop. Feelings about the workshop nevertheless remain positive. From what I’ve gathered, this happens often with CFAR (see this, this, this). I’ve hosted meetups in Los Angeles for Murphyjitsu and TAPs, and have gotten roughly 40 people to try CFAR techniques under these conditions. Attendees really like the concepts and enjoy being forced to do them, but three months later only one person was still actually using a TAP (and that was for brushing their teeth — not exactly systematized winning).

I got on a soapbox and made this point at Inkhaven residents earlier this week. I think what I said was boring and vague, and I’d like to take another swing at articulating it. I’ve observed that this is common: People attend a 1-week, 2-week, or 1-month workshop about X. There, they distill some big goals related to X, and feel really energized about it. One month after the workshop, that glow has worn off. Six months after, their workflow around X is indistinguishable from what it was pre-workshop. Feelings about the workshop nevertheless remain positive. From what I’ve gathered, this happen