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December 24, 2021

‘You want ME to give a talk at OSCON?’

This was my reaction when I was invited to be a speaker at the 2016 conference. I wasn’t particularly notable, possessing neither a Wikipedia entry nor a Twitter blue check, but here the conference chairs were inviting me to take part. That year, they had been actively working to broaden the reach of the conference and would be featuring a wide array of new speakers. OSCON is an institution in our industry. How could I possibly say no?

The question was, what should I talk about? At the time, I was working at a company focused on the enterprise adoption of Node.js

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