Disclosure that I'm closer to full stack/generalist than frontend engineer. Have you tried not going to conferences? I'm saying that with a good bit of sarcasm

Disclosure that I'm closer to full stack/generalist than frontend engineer. Have you tried not going to conferences? I'm saying that with a good bit of sarcasm, but frankly look at where a lot of these things occur and who speaks at them. They occur in huge cities that curiously have beaucoup tech companies; companies that we know incentivize promotion based on things like "personal brand" and new project development as opposed to impact. Companies that often time give lots of money to those same conferences. My point here is that conferences today are inherently inorganic and you'd get a lot more value reading long form blogs and going to meet ups to talk to people about the curious problems they have.