I’ve been an extremely fortunate person in my life.

The places I’ve worked, the people I’ve worked for and with, the things I’ve seen and done. So while here is a great space for me to talk about the frustrations and my experiences so hopefully i learn from them and maybe help someone else, I also want to honour all the good things. Because the good things in my life have defined me more than the bad.

So to begin, lets start with an experience that change my life.
Webstock, “The mostest bestest scientifically proven amazingest conference ever. In the history of the world. Fact.”

Some people assume Webstock is just about the web, just for those who work on and in and around the web. Those people are WRONG.

Yes Webstock is all of those things, but it’s something else, something a little more magical, a little more special and a little unlike anything else. Webstock is a conference that inspires you to be the very best at what you do, to have the most fun possible at what you do and to make the world a better place doing what you do.

Sure this applies to people working in the web but as someone who lives on the remotest fringes of the geeky web world these days I can tell you from personal experience it applies to everyone, and it can apply to you work life, it can apply to your life outside work, it can apply to those secret dreams your harbour inside your innnermost being, it’s that magical.

What Webstock will do is make you think, challenge how you do things, challenge how you think about things and inspire you. Each person on that stage is a world leader in what they do, but more than that. Each speaker loves what they do, breaks all the rules and more.

In short  Webstock is the Ginsu knife of conferences.

Webstock ’12 trailer from Webstock on Vimeo.

Am I going this year? no but I’ve been lucky to attend  3 times and each time resonated with me in a different way and I still have so much sitting in my brain, and so many things i want to do  from the 3 I attended I’m not sure it has space for 4.

If you don’t believe everything I’ve said Why not check out past talks from webstock, it won’t cost you a thing, because hello that’s how cool Webstock is. Even if you couldn’t make it to a Webstock event they are sharing it with you, there’s no charge for access, no limited viewing time, just some amazing talks from amazing people for Free.

Now if that isn’t the best ”But wait! There’s more!” I have no idea what is.

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