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> I only send this because I want you to be happy and healthy with a positive attitude. It's all too easy to fall into a victim mentality and focus too much on social change that isn't even necessary because, again, we're winning. You're obviously very competent and skilled.
Regardless of what you think of this, I forgave both of them and I'm opting to protect their privacy! The latest apologies come from community members who lost their income and I'm helping them find new jobs (and several of them already have.) This is good, this is healthy.
Regardless of what you think of this, I forgave both of them and I'm opting to protect their privacy. The latest apologies come from community members who lost their income and I'm helping them find new jobs (and several of them already have!) This is good, this is healthy.
#### 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.
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'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.
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.
I’ll keep publishing newsletters [here](/news) and on [Terminal Click](https://terminal.click/posts), and occasionally on my [personal](https://abner.page) website.