Yea, it took me a while to realize that the people with amazing stage demos multiple times a year have optimized their career for amazing stage demos; they effe

Yea, it took me a while to realize that the people with amazing stage demos multiple times a year have optimized their career for amazing stage demos; they effectively have a different career than practitioners. Presenting at conferences is not a 10 percent time project you do while supporting the company as an SRE the other 90 percent of the time. You have to spend time developing talks, pitching them at open RFPs, and rehearsing them that a pager somewhat precludes.