I’m watching all my internet friends head off to conferences and talks and conventions and I’m getting all self conscious. Shouldn’t I<\/em><\/strong> be packing a bag and heading out too? By their measurement, at this point in my career, I should be jetting off to Las Vegas or Copenhagen and speaking to large crowds about…<\/p>\n

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Wait. There aren’t any conventions for slovenly, half assed career choices and the desire not to move outside my current comfort zone.<\/p>\n

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Never mind.<\/p>\n

UPDATE<\/strong>: Just as I finished this, news broke of a ghost writer getting fired from his job and extracting revenge in a most appropriate way on Twitter. Here’s the screengrab because it will be taken down:<\/p>\n

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