Looking Forward While Remembering The Past

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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Notes:

• What If CSS Grid Changes?
• The Infinite Game by Simon Sinek
• Kitchen Nightmares

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)

Hosts

• Kris Brandow - Host
• Dylan Bourque - Host
• Matthew Sanabria - Host
• Kelsey Hightower - Guest

• Website
• Bluesky
• Threads
• X/Twitter
• LinkedIn
• Instagram

• (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