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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. Herding cats is slow and messy.
Im done running conferences though. Besides the reasons above, they feed the egos of a few “anointed” speakers and require a social-media hustle I wont play. Im opting out. I'm excited about build stuff that gets people thriving offline: better meetups, our own server racks, and self-hosted tools for indie devs with serious Handmade projects.
Im done running conferences though. Besides the reasons above, they feed the egos of a few “anointed” speakers and require a social-media hustle I wont play. Im opting out. I'm excited about building stuff that gets people offline: better meetups, our own server racks, and self-hosted tools for indie devs with serious Handmade projects.
Ill keep publishing newsletters [here](/news) and on [Terminal Click](https://terminal.click/posts), and occasionally on my [personal](https://abner.page) website.