On "Don’t Just Attend, Create. How to Get More Value From Your Next Conference"

Conference attendance is treated like a passive consumption problem when the real issue is that most people show up with no actual goal beyond "network" or "learn stuff." You need to arrive with a specific project, problem, or angle you're testing — something concrete that forces real conversations instead of small talk. The difference between wasting three days and actually shipping something afterward comes down to whether you walked in as an attendee or as someone actively building something that day.