My DevRelCon NYC 2026 talk: “The Market is Trying to Tell You Something”

Here’s the video of a lightning talk at I gave at DevRelCon NYC on Thursday, July 24, 2026 at Industry City in Brooklyn: The talk gets its material from my 12-month developer relations job search that took place in 2025. I kept a diary of my search, kept records of every resume and cover letter I sent, compiled email exchanges between me and prospective employers, and whenever possible, made recordings of conversations and interviews throughout the process. If you’re looking for developer relations work today, you might find my observations and advice useful. This talk’s title, The Market is Trying to Tell You Something, comes from an observation I made when watching a film that’s 21 years old now: Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith. During the scene where a not-yet-corrupted Anakin Skywalker and a not-yet-revealed-Sith-Lord Chancellor Sheev Palpatine are watching an underwater opera (its name is Squid Lake, and it’s the creation of a species called Mon Calamari; look it up!). Palpatine…