Looking Forward While Remembering The Past

Episode 11

Today we're going to be talking about looking forward while not forgetting the past with Kelsey Hightower. We'll talk community, ML/AI, the future of conferences and DevRel and the role they play (or don't) in today's tech eco-system. We'll also hear about what Kelsey's been up to in retirement - spoiler alert, it's far more active than you may expect.

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Table of Contents:

Prologue (00:00)
- Kelsey Introduction (01:20)
- Panel Introduction (01:41)
- GopherCon CFP (01:56)
Chapter 1: Community (02:48)
- Why did Kelsey leave the Go community? (02:48)
- Dylan's first experiences with Go (09:07)
- A shared vocabulary (10:41)
- The software relay race (12:32)
- Go: The Potential Parts (13:39)
- The challenge of having a Go team (15:02)
- Dylan's C++ days (17:45)
- Go 2 and saying no (18:39)
- What does it mean to be inclusive? (20:36)
- Yes is forever (30:47)
- Modules Therapy (31:59)
- Remembering the past and space for honesty (33:05)
- Dropping the community baton (36:41)
- Go by choice (37:06)
- Wall Street measure of success (40:36)
- The first date isn't the same as the hundredth (44:23)
- The leader in you (47:07)
Chapter 2: Artifical Intelligence (52:40)
- Words need to have meaning (57:36)
- Productivity at what cost? (01:04:27)
- AI is the new offshoring (01:10:19)
- Do we need a pseudo compiler? (01:11:35)
- Materials & Tools (01:15:11)
- Professionals wait out the hype cycle (01:19:07)
- Embracing the small scale (01:20:40)
- Software is an Infinite Game (01:25:48)
- Constraints are required (01:29:42)
- You cannot build the everything tool (01:32:33)
- We need to touch grass (01:33:51)
- Augmenting life (01:42:13)
Chapter 3: DevRel (01:43:41)
- Keeping sane in DevRel (01:50:02)
- Conferences in the current era (01:56:16)
- Superior Single Track Conferences (02:00:50)
- Kelsey's KubeCon Story (02:03:46)
- Virtual Conferences need a new term (02:06:23)
- Conferences need innovating (02:08:20)
- Does tech even have communities? (02:10:38)
- Kelsey's dream talk development path (02:12:51)
Chapter 4: Kelsey's Retirement (02:24:50)
Epilogue (02:45:22)

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(00:00) - Prologue
(02:48) - Chapter 1: Community
(52:40) - Chapter 2: Artifical Intelligence
(01:43:41) - Chapter 3: DevRel
(02:24:50) - Chapter 4: Kelsey's Retirement
(02:45:22) - Epilogue

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Looking Forward While Remembering The Past