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?