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Config, Waymo, and Tents - by Reggie James

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This past week I was running around SF visiting friends, attending Config, celebrating my 29th birthday, and capping it with Trae Stephens’s talk “The Prologue and the Promise”. I’ll start by saying that I didn’t find too much of Config that interesting. Maybe I did it wrong, which is entirely possible. But my gut feeling is that a 14,000 person conference can only be but so interesting if people aren’t ready to get very spicy. Of course the audience, not the stage, is typically the point. And I had plenty of fun meeting folks and reconnecting with friends. Perhaps the conversational affordance is only as expansive as the tool that’s pulling the culture together. Thus the consistent design in-joke of “we’re just moving rectangles around”. I’ll say the quiet part out loud now. The two big conversations I would say the majority of attendees were excited about were Jesper from Teenage Engineering & Spike Jonze the director of “Her”. Both conversations showed a community aspiring to those

Config, Waymo, and Tents "Issue": 112 Reggie James Jun 30, 2024 4 Share This past week I was running around SF visiting friends, attending Config, celebrating my 29th birthday, and capping it with Trae Stephens’s talk “The Prologue and the Promise”. CULTURE CLASH I’ll start by saying that I didn’t find too much of Config that interesting. Maybe I did it wrong , which is entirely possible. But my gut feeling is that a 14,000 person conference can only be but so interesting if people aren’t ready to get very spicy. Of course the audience, not the stage, is typically the point. And I had plenty o

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