Freelancer meeting notes from 6th August 2025
Posted by Paul Silver
On the 6th August, eleven freelancers got together in the Lord Nelson Inn, Brighton, to talk all things tech and nonsense. This was one of those weeks where our conversations drifted all over the place, so my notes are inadequate for what we covered. Still, here’s a taste of the evening:
- Surprise AWS bills
- The 1,000 true fans theory
- AIs being used as interviewers
- Hurting yourself and ambulances
- An Eternal Golden Braid (book)
- Different ways to allocate shares in a company
- Our first experiences with HTML
- The experience of trying to get hired by Canonical
- Musk worked illegally in the USA when younger?
- Alarm or industrial music?
- Game company history
- Long weddings
- The joys of visiting A&E
- People dying on the job
- Job hunting in 2025
- Avoiding burnout
- Silicon Valley (TV show)
- Strategies for playing Starcraft
- How you spend your free time is up to you