Sometimes what happens after is much more interesting than what happens during conferences:
If one more person had said that the internets were "revolutionary" and "transformative" I would have required medication.
It felt like watching TV, with smart people telling me things I already knew.
Full of folks who are too young to miss the Ramones but would die to be them.
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