This makes me realize I should show my appreciation to organizers more. It’s easy to take events for granted.
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If You Build It, They Will Come
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#22Reminds me of 2013 when I organized a TEDx, gosh so much work for absolute zero return. Also risk, what was I thinking?
Pursuit of growth
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#23no offence but i dont know what is this article doing on hackernews. looks like a diary entry at best.
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#24Thought it would be about feds breaking in because you built a nuclear reactor in your basement while exposing your neighbors to some radiation.
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#25Do not expect a reward, dude. I spent 15 years building a local community, I had 10,000 daily users once, people recognized me on the street, then everyone left on a whim when Facebook made it easier to hang in one's own echo chambers. I still think it was worth it. Once in a while, I bump into a stranger, and they tell me how the found their only true love because of me, or how they landed a job that made them loads…
Wasting Orval is the biggest sin of all.
Friend, I know where there is stored an entire casque of Orval!
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#26Thought it would be about feds breaking in because you built a nuclear reactor in your basement while exposing your neighbors to some radiation.
That was a Rorschach test.
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#27Thought it would be about feds breaking in because you built a nuclear reactor in your basement while exposing your neighbors to some radiation.
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#28no offence but i dont know what is this article doing on hackernews. looks like a diary entry at best.
Shakes fist at cloud
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#29“I’ve come to believe that part of today’s problem of social alienation is a problem of too many free riders.” I started planning street festivals a few years ago. It’s now a lucrative and growing business for me. The demand for events at all scales vastly outstrips supply, and I think growing social isolation is part of the reason. The free riders might seem like a problem to someone who just wants there to be event…
we have tons of street festivals in chicago in summer but now they have lost been outsourced to festival companies and subsequently lost all charm and local feel.
They are all copy paste of each other and outright scams.
how do you make sure they have some charecter and dont turn into mc-festival
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#30Do not expect a reward, dude. I spent 15 years building a local community, I had 10,000 daily users once, people recognized me on the street, then everyone left on a whim when Facebook made it easier to hang in one's own echo chambers. I still think it was worth it. Once in a while, I bump into a stranger, and they tell me how the found their only true love because of me, or how they landed a job that made them loads…
Would like to hear the rest of this story. Don't have an X account atm.