I will opt for the hackthon where I actually do things with a small number of cool people.
Conferences and meetups are for two things
watching talks, learning new content.
"networking" with people
The first thing I can usually do better at home. I have better control over what I choose to watch.
Meeting people I already know at conferences is absolutely great, just happened to me at DroidConf a big conference in Berlin. I met lots of friends the first days.
But the second and third day I was bored, I was in huge rooms full of hundreds of strangers, "networking" like this is like the contrary of what I enjoy.
As an introvert, I enjoy doing things either one to one or in a small group.
Don't get me wrong, some conferences are great and changed my life, like Kotlinconf organized by JetBrains.
But if I had to pick one as an introvert, I would pick the hackathon.
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I will opt for the hackthon where I actually do things with a small number of cool people.
Conferences and meetups are for two things
The first thing I can usually do better at home. I have better control over what I choose to watch.
Meeting people I already know at conferences is absolutely great, just happened to me at DroidConf a big conference in Berlin. I met lots of friends the first days.
But the second and third day I was bored, I was in huge rooms full of hundreds of strangers, "networking" like this is like the contrary of what I enjoy.
As an introvert, I enjoy doing things either one to one or in a small group.
Don't get me wrong, some conferences are great and changed my life, like Kotlinconf organized by JetBrains.
But if I had to pick one as an introvert, I would pick the hackathon.