The Power Button
The Power Button is the other punch to engrave key points on the audience's mind. It introduces your Power Line to the audience, by set them up to listen to you. Last week I wrote about James Humes' Power Line as the first punch to engrave your key idea in the audience's mind. The second punch is the Power Button and it is the launcher of your Power Line. In the words of the author: The Power Button says to the audience "Ready—Set—Listen" to set them up for the Power Line that follows. I heard a very well known professor in the field of applied math using this Power Button back in 2009 in the Netherlands. Almost two year later I still remember his Power Button. Unfortunately his presentation was bad, but with the (perhaps unconscious) use of the Power Button he engraved in the mind the idea that Tangential interpolation methods are the only possible set of method to attain H2-norm optimality. Nevermind that his means, I just want to point out this Power Butt