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> How do you expect people to get better at their craft Reality check: I don't. Educating the masses for free is not my duty and I don't have space and time fo
by dheera 1y ago
> How do you expect people to get better at their craft
Reality check: I don't. Educating the masses for free is not my duty and I don't have space and time for that. If I host a tech-related event it's for a group of people I care about, including myself, to mutually benefit from each other.
- dangus 1y agoIn this case you’re just talking about a completely unrelated and irrelevant subject. This article and discussion isn’t about private gatherings hosted by you.
- Seattle3503 1y agoThat's it, I'm removing you from my Thanksgiving guest list!
- dheera 1y agoMy point is that the public gatherings have become noise, and private gatherings have become where people are increasingly going, out of necessity. There used to be a point in time ~15 years ago when the public gatherings were mostly high-quality talent of highly motivated people and you were sort of connected with all such people in your city. There are a lot of low-motivation "hey I just learned to code 5 lines of Python with ChatGPT and therefore I should get attention" type people now.
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- dangus 1y agoI think that it’s more likely that your perspective has changed in the last ~15 years rather than the makeup of conference attendees changing. I.e. I think it’s more likely that you’re noticing the inexperience of others because you yourself have gained experience. At some point in your life you yourself were the “hey I just learned to code 5 lines of python” person at those conferences. As another analogy, someone driving on the highway can’t complain about the traffic, they are traffic.