everything I’ve learned from running Manifest
About two months ago, after helping out at the West Coast EA retreat, before my supposed flight back to Chicago, Saul gave me a pitch on becoming the co-organi…
Last updated 2026-07-02 a not-very-coherent personal reflection on some things I learned running Manifest 2026: About two months ago, after helping out at the West Coast EA retreat, before my supposed flight back to Chicago, Saul gave me a pitch on becoming the co-organizer of Manifest. I was vaguely familiar with the conference having previously read rachel’s post from running manifest 2024, remembering Agnes Callard telling me that “the people there are very fun to hang around”, and otherwise had no understanding of what either the event nor the job entailed. Prior to this, I was in my…
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