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Time capsule - I found a blast from the past when cleaning out my Dad’s cupboards today – a popcorn tin from AWS Kick-off 2020. That’s the one in Chicago during the first week of January. AWS flew thousands of employees from around the world there. I met up with Dean Samuels to talk about joining him for a keynote a few months later. I think Corey Quinn may have even given a talk/roast?! And then of course a major snowstorm hit on the day everyone was meant to fly home. My domestic flight to Dad’s house was delayed and eventually cancelled, and I was literally sitting in O’Hare when I idly started browsing jobs in the Munich office. I ended up taking the South Shore train back to Indiana the next day, and I guess I must’ve gifted Dad the popcorn when I got here. A week later I was having a call with Enrique Duvos about joining his EMEA DevRel team. When I finally flew home to Sydney later that month, my Mom told me I should wear a mask because people were starting to talk about a new virus going around. It’s like an artifact from another universe. https://www.web-goddess.org/archive/93822