I've become more appreciative of crypto conference culture.

Its value add is: it gives the benefits of cross-org in-person person coordination, serendipitous connections, weak ties, etc, without everyone being gravitationally pulled into NYC and SF.

It's maybe the only institution to have successfully done this.

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I think I just self-select the people I end up interacting with?

The conference ecosystem has lately been evolving from "one dominant event" to "archipelago of colocated events" which I think has been a very positive change.

Granted, I'm sure there are low quality things I don't see.

But surprisingly enough, I think the colocations themselves seem to self-select by quality! (ie. good events pop up around good events, scam events pop up around scam events)

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EthCC is going in the many-event popup city direction. I think it's the only way to scale to 10k+ people without completely losing quality and going lowest-common-denominator or taking political heat inherent in a single central-event organizer being responsible for controversial decisions in something that large.

I’ve found the 2 I’ve been to pretty overwhelming. Dunno how you guys do it.

DevCon and EthDenver both seemed closer to pop-up cities than conferences. 

Maybe organizers should lean into that vibe. Kinda Venice Biennale or the old World Fairs. A kind of overlay city-on-a-city. Like the China Mieville story.