This week I went to a conference, probably the last one I'll ever attend. Very enjoyable, the complete opposite of my first-ever conference. It all balances out.
My first one was half a lifetime ago in Cambridge, where I had to deliver a half-hearted and vacuous paper in front of about 600 clever and critical tech-heads. Stressful as eff.
If that was my most inhumane conference, this week's was the opposite. A roomful of like-minded geeks, communicating by tweets, with no need for small talk and other annoyances. All tweets, questions and interjections from the floor were actually on-topic!
Sounds like in this case technology was actually working to keep things running smoothly.
ReplyDeleteNanners. I know! Who'd have thought it? The exception proving the rule perhaps.
ReplyDeleteI say!
ReplyDeleteWas it an unconference?
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Mingers. Don't tell certain freelance Buddhists, but there was a bar with free drinks.
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