This was the panel not to miss!

Tim argues that our own time is most valuable and that economies of arbitrage allow you to outsource far more than we currently outsource…

This exports jobs, obviously, but the hour I free up by delegating fighting with my cell phone company on hold is an hour I can get back to go explore the parts of the world that aren’t top 1% economies.

He would argue that you should use your free time to go “have a life.” I wonder how he would feel about using that freed up time to do more “meaningful work.”

Here are better notes

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This is going to be a fun sxsw. Once dorkbot is over, I may be able to relax a bit.

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With the everlooming sxsw-interactive rapidly crashing in on me, I tried to do something cute with my web server and email.

Everything broke and now I’ve got a duct-tape solution that at least will maybe let me get email again.

The 11th hour is too late to try to do a relaunch.

And yet here we are.

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For the past couple of years, I wrote The Unofficial Geek Guide to Getting Over Yourself at SxSW Interactive.

This is the new version for 2007. It’s mostly the same. I’m kinda the same. My relentless friendliness is the same.

Regardless, I’m looking forward to meeting you.

(Unashamed plug: check out dorkbot on Saturday evening, 6:00PM right across the street from the convention center - free beer, robots, and tesla coils!))

The Unofficial Geek Guide to SxSW-I 2007

So what is this guide all about?

Soon, you will be at SxSWi in Austin, Texas; I call Austin home and I welcome you with wide open arms. I hope you hug me back.