diff --git a/content/english/news/winding-down.md b/content/english/news/winding-down.md index 3c00e65..6690aca 100644 --- a/content/english/news/winding-down.md +++ b/content/english/news/winding-down.md @@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ An impressive number of people who ended their relationship with me have apologi #### Could things have been different? -Without social media we could've had more perspective: 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. +Without social media we could've had more perspective: in the end this was just one event. In fact a Seattle meetup member called me a “young grasshopper.” 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 just won’t play. I’m 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.