Pulling this out of a reply because I think it's worth saying for the record: Speaking at a conference is a form of highly visible, legible social capital. Many people overestimate the economic leverage of it, which is IMHO relatively low for non-professional speakers.
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Replying to @patio11
I can sort of pin this pretty exactly: I am roughly 7-10 years ahead of folks who graduated university at the same time as me in terms of title and comp, because of my speaking career.
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I do think that if I were listing counterexamples I personally know you'd be on that list. That said: I think we won the similar tournaments, but that ascribing much of our professional success to those tournaments is likely misplaced relative to other games we were playing.
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