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Everything you did to make your conference better actually made it worse

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Part of what I do for a living is help people make conferences better. I care enormously about connecting people to each other, and I think conferences are amazing tools for creating valuable community. Unfortunately, many conferences not only fail to take steps to help people connect, they actually make it harder for people to meet each other. Generally, they do this in the name of delivering information, but we have far better tools for that. We have had better, more-effective tools for that since the printing press. Delivering information is not what conferences are for. Conferences are for bringing people together. Thanks for reading Misha’s Substack! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. Lots of the things conferences do are worse than doing nothing. Imagine the baseline “not do anything” conference - this would consist of gathering all your attendees in a park or a bar, and just letting them hang out. This would be a pretty lazy way to run a conference. It

Everything you did to make your conference better actually made it worse Pleading for an end to negative-utility choices in conference design Misha Glouberman Oct 07, 2024 80 17 4 Share Part of what I do for a living is help people make conferences better. I care enormously about connecting people to each other, and I think conferences are amazing tools for creating valuable community. Unfortunately, many conferences not only fail to take steps to help people connect, they actually make it harder for people to meet each other. Generally, they do this in the name of delivering information, but

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