From: M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2018 15:15:40 +0000 (-0700) Subject: starting to draft "Scattered Personal Reflections After ..." X-Git-Url: http://534655.efjtl6rk.asia/source?a=commitdiff_plain;h=d2677109cf124b35e77b690070c2e45c20547d13;p=Ultimately_Untrue_Thought.git starting to draft "Scattered Personal Reflections After ..." --- diff --git a/content/drafts/scattered-personal-reflections-after-a-tech-conference-or-smile-more.md b/content/drafts/scattered-personal-reflections-after-a-tech-conference-or-smile-more.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..540b7ea --- /dev/null +++ b/content/drafts/scattered-personal-reflections-after-a-tech-conference-or-smile-more.md @@ -0,0 +1,42 @@ +Title: Scattered Personal Reflections After a Tech Conference; Or, Smile More +Date: 2020-01-01 +Category: commentary +Tags: discourse, software industry, anecdotal +Status: draft + +> _There's a heart that must be free +> To fly +> That burns with the need to know +> The reason why +> Why must we all conceal +> What we think, how we feel? +> Must there be a secret me I'm forced to hide?_ +> +> —"Reflection", from _Mulan_ + +I took half a week of vacation from my dayjob recently to crash with a friend in another city and attend the conference associated with an open-source technology I've been pretty involved with lately! It was really fun and inspiring, getting to hear all the talks and putting faces to usernames! I thought I'd write a blog post about all the exciting technical things I learned. + +This is not that post. By cowardice and convention, this is someone else's story on someone else's blog, about "Taylor Saotome-Westlake" visiting his friend "Jerrica" in "San Francisco" to attend the conference about this software called "[Blerp](https://xkcd.com/1692/)-d9aa89fd". + +Again, the conference was great, and I had a lot of fun, but—I don't know. Some aspects of it induced me to feel a bit stressed and a little bit sad, even though that's entirely my own fault and entirely my own problem. + + + +It started with the pronoun stickers. + +[...] + +








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