Every now and again I run into someone who wants to know "are tech conferences worthwhile?" and I think of this kind of thing:https://twitter.com/rothgar/status/938222330467274752 …
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RT if a connection you've made at a technical conference has ever significantly impacted your career.
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Of course the full story has a lot more details but gist is I made a very important connection through a seemingly unimportant conversation. I now have an IMDb page because of it!
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EmberConf changed my career (and my life). I am thankful every day for my JS friends and mentors who I first met there
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Shoutout to
@EmberConf!
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Go to conferences because like minds go, ready to benefit - not just from the subject area - but for serendipitous mind meetings presented
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I agree, it's the best part!
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Sometimes you learn more by geeking out and talking shop in the bar after the seminars!
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ALWAYS.
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Soooooo many of my projects have come from meeting people at conferences.
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Met a musician in line for coffee this year at a conference: 6 months later they are my partner on a major education project. Met many of my dearest mentors at conference meals. And so on... (And I'm by default introverted/shy. Had to learn to network.)
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Organized a conference to meet the right people to do a startup. Which we did, were acquired by Docker. Changed everything in under a year.
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Going to tech conferences is the main reason why I’m able to have a dream career while living in my dream small town.
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At my first tech conference, I met a guy who called himself "Pope de Flash." A few months later, he recommended me to his publisher and I landed a book deal.https://twitter.com/starsandrobots/status/938226699178672128 …
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@jremsikjr and@MadisonRuby change my life. Forever great full to him. At MadisonRuby I met@bphogan who introduced me to@johnsonch The rest is history. -
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After working together on some open-source stuff, I met
@yenzie at YAPC::NA, and that basically got me my first co-op job, which offered great variety and set me on a path to Google SREhttps://twitter.com/starsandrobots/status/938226699178672128 … -
In particular, it let me eventually do systems stuff, while everyone else in my peer group was only doing software. That was key to developing some of the breadth that SRE requires
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Yanick is my bro. <3 that dude. I've thanked him before, but: thanks for giving me early encouragement. Thanks for giving me hard feedback. Thanks for valuing my opinion.
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<3 you too, mate. Tech achievements are okay, but helping -- even a tad -- the younger, smarter generation get higher and better? That's where the real pride is at. :-)
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