From 568d7997f6011c1e760390d7002ae8ae11d1b6c2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Abner Coimbre Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2025 12:00:55 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Polish x12 Winding Down --- content/english/news/winding-down.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/content/english/news/winding-down.md b/content/english/news/winding-down.md index 486946f..c9a39ae 100644 --- a/content/english/news/winding-down.md +++ b/content/english/news/winding-down.md @@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ Regardless of what you think of this, I forgave both of them and I'm opting to p #### Could things have been different? -Maybe. Without social media or perverse incentives for online drama things could've gone differently. A meetup member in Seattle called me a “young grasshopper” as a community organizer. That caught me off guard until I looked around. Important events take time indeed: TED Talks have existed for four decades and then YouTube made it huge; DEFCON is thirty years old; many open-source conferences spent twenty years figuring things out. Wrangling humans is slow and messy. +Maybe. Without social media or perverse incentives for online drama things could've gone differently. A meetup member in Seattle called me a “young grasshopper” as a community organizer. That caught me off guard until I looked around. Important events take time indeed: TED Talks have existed for four decades; DEFCON is thirty years old; many open-source conferences spent twenty years figuring things out. Wrangling humans is slow and messy. I’m done running conferences though. Besides the reasons above, they feed the egos of a few “anointed” speakers and require a social-media hustle I won’t play. I’m opting out. I’d rather build stuff that gets people offline: better meetups, our own server racks, and self-hosted tools for programmers making a living with serious Handmade projects.