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@ -71,9 +71,9 @@ Transforming into a combative individual has become incredibly useful, but there
#### Nature is healing
The Handmade meetups are awesome and they keep growing. We nerd out with demos and side projects. We help local programmers find work or make new friends every month. I train and mentor hosts, then they take the reins, so the scene is decentralized and self-sustaining. Meetups are cheap or free to run so I don't have to chase big revenue. Meanwhile, building [Terminal Click](https://terminal.click) as a indie dev is therapy compared to wrangling humans for a living.
The Handmade meetups are awesome and they keep growing. We nerd out with demos and side projects. We help local programmers find work or make new friends every month. I train and mentor hosts, then they take the reins, so the scene is decentralized and self-sustaining. Meetups are cheap or free to run so I don't have to chase big revenue. Meanwhile, building [Terminal Click](https://terminal.click) as a indie dev is therapy compared to wrangling humans for a living!
An impressive number of people who ended their friendships with me have apologized as of late. A couple of examples follow (you may need to open them in a new tab):
An impressive number of people who ended their relationship with me have apologized as of late. A couple of examples follow (you may need to open them in a new tab):
{{< image src="images/hmc/close_friend_apology.png" caption="Close Friend Apology" alt="Close Friend Apology" height="1114" width="255" position="center" command="fill" option="q100" class="img-fluid" title="Close Friend Apology" webp="false" >}}
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#### 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; DEFCON is thirty years old; many open-source conferences spent twenty years figuring things out. Herding cats is slow and messy.
Maybe. Without social media or perverse incentives for online drama things could've gone differently: in the end this was just one event. In fact a Seattle meetup member called me a “young grasshopper” as a community organizer. That caught me off guard until I looked around. Important things 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.
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 prefer building stuff that gets people offline: better meetups, our own server racks, and self-hosted tools for indie devs with serious Handmade projects.