dear old friend, if you are going to devconnect tomorrow, please know this: there are no audiences here, only authors. ethereum is not the work of a few names, it never has been. it is the accumulation of thousands of choices made by people who cared enough to build something better than what they were handed. so: when you walk into these rooms, talk to everyone. greet the newcomer the same way you greet the legend. do not build pedestals in your mind. the people you admire started exactly where you are. the next breakthrough might come from the person sitting alone on the edge of a hallway conversation. devconnect is a place where hierarchies should fall away. a place where the future is not handed down from a stage but shaped in circles, in questions, in unexpected collisions between strangers. no one here is above you. no one here is below you. you are all ethereum. ...