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Stopping myself from attending every industry conference paid off big time
Colleagues think you need to be visible, but I found it just eats into productive hours. Now I only go when I have something specific to learn or share.
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caseyw1221h ago
Consider how conference overload can actually make your knowledge shallower. You collect a million surface-level ideas but never go deep enough to use any of them. I forced myself to implement just one tool from a single talk last year, and it changed our workflow more than twenty conferences of frantic note-taking ever did. Sometimes missing an event gives you the quiet to actually think about what you already know.
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xena_kim821d ago
Fr, picking your conferences is key. They suck up so much time for little return. Going only when you have a clear goal saves your sanity. The need to be visible is overrated and exhausting. I burned out trying to attend everything. Now I focus on what matters and my work is way better.
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