Notes for November 9–13

Boy, what a week. To begin with, thanks to the inauspicious alignment of a couple of depressions (weather ones, for a change), the weather was miserable enough that I barely left the house, which I am only rating positively because it prevented me from attending Web Summit and its sycophantic, utterly divorced from reality hype fest. WetSummit Was The Best Summit As it turns out, the Portuguese government decided to shutter schools and non-essential public services and we all stayed home on Wednesday. Luckily, depression Charles took a more southerly track than forecast (making for a day of intense but otherwise very much non-tropical rainstorms here), but by that time “WetSummit” had shut down for the day, and it was probably its best yet. This may sound harsh given it was indeed a great event when it came to Lisbon and that (if I had made it there) it would be a rare opportunity to actually meet some people I haven’t seen in years, but I just can’t sit through another talk on how X…

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