⏳the rise of the intimate gathering

Let me ask you a question. When was the last time you went to a conference with 5,000 people and left feeling like your life changed? Exactly. Nobody actually likes big events. Not really. We pretend to. We post about them. We tell ourselves it was "good for the network." But if you're honest, you spent most of the time waiting in lines, sitting in overcrowded sessions, and having the same surface-level conversation 40 times. "What do you do?" "Oh cool, what do you do?" Then you go home...