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yes.

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I do 16 hour fasting every day and 3 day fasting once in 6 months. After seeing what I do, many of my family folks have changed as well. Lots of benefits as you mentioned.

Only feedback is, after fasting don't go over board and eat fast or dump it in your mouth. Take at least 30 mins to finish the meal. (I keep reminding myself this)

Thanks Tony for your reply. I did go to one of these conferences before but learned from that mistake. Understand the networking aspect. But they mostly occur outside the conference at a dinner or after party. Here's how I clarified my stance to Jimmy.

Winning strategy is to have a clear target person to meet, introduce yourself to, or talk to at the conference. Contact them via DMs to arrange a meetup or look for side meetups that you know other like-minded people will attend. or you get invited to speak at these conferences.

Losing strategy is thinking that you can wing it by meeting many speakers, celebrities, and hoping to land your dream job by paying for a full-price conference pass or a whale-pass.

Yes. you are hitting all the right points. Being in healthcare I exactly know what you are talking about.. My wife works in healthcare as well. While technology is one side, people and regulations are on the other side not letting innovation happen in healthcare. AI has that potential to disrupt and when the rules get re written we will have an opportunity to do it right.

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There is an AI agent called DocGPT which can give out some medical responses. You can imagine the capabilities can grow into reviewing X-Rays, MRI and providing personalized medical responses in the future.

Let me know your feedback.

Thanks, Jimmy, for your reply. I agree that back in 2015-2016, there weren't many Bitcoin projects, companies, and conferences were the only way to meet people and build a career. Crypto Twitter did not exist, and many Bitcoin celebrities did not exist either. Things are much different now. There are so many open-source projects to contribute to, opportunities to learn, a community on Nostr to showcase your work, and direct messages (DMs) to establish one-on-one connections.

Based on your experience, it is mainly one-on-one conversations or small group discussions that lead to meaningful next steps, rather than the conferences themselves.

I religiously read your weekly newsletters and am learning how to identify rent-seekers or middlemen who don't add any value, and I see these big conferences as falling into that category.

To clarify, here's how I see it:

winning strategy is to have a clear target person to meet, introduce yourself to, or talk to at the conference. Contact them via DMs to arrange a meetup or look for side meetups that you know other like-minded people will attend. or you get invited to speak at these conferences.

Losing strategy is thinking that you can wing it by meeting many speakers, celebrities, and hoping to land your dream job by paying for a full-price conference pass or a whale-pass.

meetups, hackathons, zap.stream (Nostr stream) all great...!

yes. I definitely felt like a loser..!

Thanks but no thanks..! :)

Good feedback. Sometimes the message cannot be sent across by being nice or good. So experimenting with different styles. Next time, I will try to make it more positive..!

Thanks for the support.

Thanks for your reply. Many times, things don't get called out when they happen. This is a call to action for anyone new coming into this space to wake up and realize.

Thanks for your feedback. Local meetups and hackathons are much more impactful for devs and new founders.

Meetups and hackathons are labeled mostly as meetups and hackathons and at times they happen around conferences too. I think we agree that the BTC Mag conf are mainly the bad ones but also we have other ones with over 1000+ attendees.

My goal for this article is to spark a debate and get some specific examples where people benefited by going to these events. While I provided you with example of someone made a real impact by not going to conferences, I would like to get some real examples of people benefited from going to these conferences.

Local meetups, Hackathons, podcasts are many good ways of meeting, learning and building and I don't have any problems with that. Also the Nostr conferences such as Nostrica and Nostrasia (Nov 1-3) are also good because they do not have sponsors or tickets.

I am only pointing to the big bitcoin conferences that are not creating any value.

absolutely... Many... but one person stands out is @fiatjaf who does not go to conferences but has built and impacted bitcoin community in many ways.

Can you or someone quote a real world example of someone building something big by going to one of these conferences? Will be good to get specific examples than making emotional statements.

Most of these events happen only in Bitcoiner-dense geographical location such as LA, Miami, Amsterdam. Agree with interacting with other fellow non-celebrities. Can you give one such example?