Hi, my name is Edward. I work for an excellent company called Shopify. In my spare time, I put on hackfests with some excellent friends of mine.
Once upon a time, I went to a lot of tech-related meetups. I want to enough meetups that I started to know pretty much everyone who showed up. It was pretty much the same dudes interested in the same things every. single. time. Nice guys, but I wanted something a little different.
Fast-forward to some really awesome party I was at. There were all sorts of people from different backgrounds at this party, and they were all really smart, and really interesting. I met biologists specializing in arctic bacteria that live in semi-transparent rocks that naturally create condensation so that the bacteria can live. I met librarians who told me about the crazy political and philosophical beliefs that go into systems like the Library of Congress system of organizing books, and how you can still see the history of feminism and women’s suffrage just by lookin