The way I got into tech was through conferences, not as an attendee but as a volunteer. What’s interesting about conferences is that the people there who are truly getting shit done, show up for the one thing they need and then leave as fast as possible. Aside from hackathons, everything else is just a vacation.

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Can you remember the first conference you voluntarily attended 

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Yeah it was @ommalik GigaOm events. They were an import conduit of incredibly thoughtful and more usefully technical conversations. I might hold a different opinion of conferences were they still alive, though I don’t think the world right now appreciates all that those conversations were