Keynote (Day 1)
The author of coverage,
Ned Batchelder is a Python community OG.
He chose to give the keynote talk on
“high uncertainty components in complex systems” (people).
This talk shares a comical perspective comparing people with software. A few examples are people are non-standard, undocumented, hidden state, and have unclear error messages. It then gives an API User’s Guide for people, detailing a valuable lesson, that all messages contain information and sentiment.
Ned also shared some advice he was given from Łukasz Langa:
- If you don’t say something controversial in a PyCon keynote, are you really living your best life?