Identity 2.0 Keynote

Why HN readers recommended it

HN commenters hold it up as one of the most engaging tech talks ever given, both for its identity ideas and its slide technique.

This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.

Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

Dan Lewis

Topic

digital identity and presentation style

Format

talk

Level

general

HN recommenders in dataset

3

HN mentions in dataset

7

Recommendation years in dataset

2014–2023

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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• > Well, the solutions offered then have failed, but did they systematically rule out all possible technologies and business models? Of course not. In fact, business models were only considered tangentially in most cases because the general goal was to create an ecosystem of federated …

• For reasons completely unrelated to the content, Identity 2.0: [VIDEO] Watching that talk brought me over to the "a picture or a few words per slide" style of presentation, rather than the "wall of bullet points" style. It also helped me move from "stop talking, …

• The most effective presentation style I have ever seen used literally hundreds (if not thousands) of slides, but in a way I had never encountered before. I’ve heard it described as the Lawrence Lessig presentation style, but my introduction to it was a presentation about …