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Living in San Francisco, it's getting harder and harder to get excited about conferences. I find myself at 7-10 per year, and the infrastructure events blend in
by dnsworks 17y ago
Living in San Francisco, it's getting harder and harder to get excited about conferences. I find myself at 7-10 per year, and the infrastructure events blend in with each other, as do the startup events. Generally the same people saying the same things, often in very self-serving ways .. like Mark Pincus telling everybody they will fail as entrepreneurs if they don't work for Zynga or Facebook first, or Paul Graham trying to make you feel bad if you didn't drop out of a university in exchange for $20k to build a web app.
- axod 17y ago7-10 is probably just too many. I haven't been to any event for about 18 months or something, so Google IO should be fun (and scary) for me. Looks like some great topics + talks etc
- dkberktas 17y agowell, they are very valuable for me as this will the first time I hear about these in real (as in real world not from a computer screen), actually I will specificly come to SF for these type of events.
- rms 17y agoThat is not the message of either Mark Pincus or Paul Graham.