I’d like to convey a message to anyone who has been considering attending a meetup but hasn’t actually come.
I first considered coming to a Melbourne meetup 18 months ago, but ended up putting it off for almost 6 months, having read HPMOR and only one of the sequences. At the time I remember feeling a little like attending my first meetup had a pretty poor expected cost/benefit ratio: I didn’t know where the venue was, know any of the people, felt like I wouldn’t fit in, and it was on a Friday night! My range of uncertainty for the expected awesomeness of the event ranged from ‘not very awesome at all’ to ‘okay’.
When I finally did decide to attend, it turned out to be on of the best decisions I’ve made. The people were incredibly friendly and intelligent, the games were much more challenging and enjoyable than the board games I had played before, and I came away at the end of the night with a long list of interesting things to research.
In the year since I first came I’ve had an incredible journey thanks to these people, and I admit that putting off attending for six months was a mistake. The best way to narrow down your uncertainty on how good an idea it is to do something is to just try it. If it turns out good, you start reaping the rewards immediately, and if it turns out not so good, then you now have information to that effect.
Feel free to send me a private message if you are still sceptical or want more information. Or make a post here so we have more data on where everyone is coming from. If you are interested, but the time/location/event type doesn’t work for you, let us know, so we can update accordingly in the future.
I’d like to convey a message to anyone who has been considering attending a meetup but hasn’t actually come.
I first considered coming to a Melbourne meetup 18 months ago, but ended up putting it off for almost 6 months, having read HPMOR and only one of the sequences. At the time I remember feeling a little like attending my first meetup had a pretty poor expected cost/benefit ratio: I didn’t know where the venue was, know any of the people, felt like I wouldn’t fit in, and it was on a Friday night! My range of uncertainty for the expected awesomeness of the event ranged from ‘not very awesome at all’ to ‘okay’.
When I finally did decide to attend, it turned out to be on of the best decisions I’ve made. The people were incredibly friendly and intelligent, the games were much more challenging and enjoyable than the board games I had played before, and I came away at the end of the night with a long list of interesting things to research.
In the year since I first came I’ve had an incredible journey thanks to these people, and I admit that putting off attending for six months was a mistake. The best way to narrow down your uncertainty on how good an idea it is to do something is to just try it. If it turns out good, you start reaping the rewards immediately, and if it turns out not so good, then you now have information to that effect.
Feel free to send me a private message if you are still sceptical or want more information. Or make a post here so we have more data on where everyone is coming from. If you are interested, but the time/location/event type doesn’t work for you, let us know, so we can update accordingly in the future.
Brayden