Whose Job Is This?
There are lots of details about ThatCon I'd enjoy getting deeply involved with, but it turns out that, as con chair, most of those details are not my job. It's…
Totally Like Whatever, You Know?
Just a pointer to Taylor Mali's poetry today: A good reminder to me not to be too tentative when I speak. It's a beautiful Saturday and I'm going to get…
Metaphor of the Day
Being conchair of ThatCon is like being head magician of an amazing machine. Of which I do not know all the incantations to use all its miraculous capabilities and besides…
Learning from Last Year
Every year the staff of ThatCon ends the year with a pile of notes about what to change for next year. And then the notes go in a file and…
Staffing up
I skipped writing about the debrief from the last convention, and there's a lot to say about that. Right now I'm deep into the process of staffing next year's con…
Isn’t It Ironic?
Within a couple of days of posting the last blog post, The Pursuit of Perfection, a new and shiny opportunity came up. It seemed like something that would be worth…
The Pursuit of Perfection
I sometimes describe ThatCon as "ambitious", by which I mean that we're constantly trying to do better, bigger, and more exciting than we've done before. One-upping our own past performance…