Aaron Parecki

Some of us still like getting up on stage in front of a live audience.

It's getting more difficult to get speakers to show up for events. Once they gear up at home, they like it better without all the travel... which is really expensive.

Attendance also drops dramatically if there's an online option.

It feels like IRL events are sliding off cliff

The problem is that I have one roommate that does electronic music and one roommate that does a bunch of phone stuff like using dial-up modems and I can't tell which one is making the noises I'm hearing.

You think YouTubers are overrated? Try making and publishing a video by yourself.

The YouTubers have officially beaten the mainstream if you look at the numbers the Law YouTubers have pulled the last few weeks vs traditional media, and it’s not even close. The market decides…

Here's another way of framing this: a 30 year old @Stanford computer science grad, with a cumulative 6 months work experience in the tech industry, built a cryptocurrency business that wiped out people's life savings in a matter of days.

Imagine thinking what JSON really needs is XML namespaces and RDF.