Receiving feedback on your talk

Rabea Gransberger: Did I ever have somebody attending one of my talks who made me feel uncomfortable? I don't think so, but I like to hear some criticism about my talks as well, so that would be fine for me.

What I think is sad is that you usually only get the good feedback about your talks and you rarely hear why people didn't like your talks.

For me, it was very nice when Heinz was sitting in one of my "Effective IDE Usage" talks because I learned many of the things that I was showing from him.

With the "Java 9 Modules" talks that I was doing, I don't think anybody was there from Oracle, but I did talk to one of the guys from Oracle at Devoxx in Antwerp, and he said that he liked my talk from a recording he had seen.

I had this one moment when a talk was rejected and I actually got feedback about why. It wasn't useful because the feedback was just questions. The organizers had questions but because they couldn't...