What a contribution looks like, and why it has this shape.
Bring a decision. Three parts, in this order. It is not a template to be clever with — the order is doing the work.
What you were building, and the call you actually made. Concrete enough that somebody could disagree with it.
The part most formats leave out. What you first believed, argued for, or shipped — and what changed your mind. If nothing was wrong, this may be a report rather than a decision, and that is worth noticing.
The artifact that is different now. A document, a constraint, a deleted feature, a conversation you had differently. Something a person could go and look at.
Because a library of finished conclusions makes whoever wrote it the authority, whether or not that was anybody's intent. That is how a room quietly acquires a guru. A record of people being corrected cannot do that — the form itself will not hold a pedestal. It also happens to be where the actual information is: the conclusion is cheap, the turn is expensive.
Hot takes about the industry. Predictions. Anything that would work equally well as a conference talk. Screenshots of a model saying something impressive. None of these are bad; they simply are not decisions, and this room is small on purpose.
One is your Master, even Christ; and all ye are brethren.
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The Invitation