Foo Camp geek out
I spent last weekend at Foo Camp hosted at O'Reilly's headquarters in Sebastopol, about 60 miles north of San Francisco. The 200-person event was 3 days of non-stop conversations, sessions, and planning with the occasional break for food or a few hours sleep under a cubicle desk. I was blown away by the quality of conversations and intellectually challenging ideas and formulations each day. A few things stood out, and I'll summarize a bit here before I forget Friday, Day 1 On Friday evening I discussed oil futures and web-scale micropayments with economist Hal Varian. Hal wrote Information Rules,…