Believe it or not, I have, which is why I'm putting on the conference. Get it?

The one thing I don't like about Vienna is the "meh" attitude, about everything, even what is (theoretically) an individual's own passion. And I believe that's as subject to role modeling as everything else. I am a cheerful, if occasionally overly exuberant, optimist. I fucking care, is what I'm saying.

I don't hold any hopes of changing a lot of people -- but you never know, that could happen. What I want is to attract and meet the people who also feel their passion in an unironic way.

Despite your jabs at my theoretical personality flaws, we clearly agree.

And I'm trying to do something about it.

>Despite your jabs at my theoretical personality flaws, we clearly agree.

Just wondering if you've considered the delivery, not the message, is what may be getting in your way here .. I've seen it go both ways, also. If the person has genuine statistics on record of having had a startup success, then no problems: but if the claims are being made without any real basis to back them up, well then .. that can get mighty cold, mighty fast. The hacker elite respect none whose words are mightier than their deeds ..