April 30th, 2018

I don’t know how I managed to be presenting at the same conference as Dona Sarkar

Raymond Chen
Raymond Chen

Dona Sarkar is an aspiring fashion designer, a fashion blogger, a book author, and head of the Windows Insiders program.

She’s also way cooler than I will ever be. Here’s her proposed title slide for one of her presentations at the Build 2018 conference.¹

Maybe if I hang out with her enough, some of the cool will rub off.

On the other hand, in Mary Jo Foley’s preview coverage of Build 2018, she called out four speakers: The three keynote speakers, and me.

So like no pressure or anything.

The event organizers instructed the speakers to upload a photo and brief biography, with the note: “Your biography should be 150 words or less (including spaces).”

“Including spaces”? What does that even mean?

I didn’t count the spaces. They appeared to accept the biography anyway.

¹ Thankfully no longer styled as //build/, though the three slashes are still present in the conference logo design.

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Raymond Chen

Raymond has been involved in the evolution of Windows for more than 30 years. In 2003, he began a Web site known as The Old New Thing which has grown in popularity far beyond his wildest imagination, a development which still gives him the heebie-jeebies. The Web site spawned a book, coincidentally also titled The Old New Thing (Addison Wesley 2007). He occasionally appears on the Windows Dev Docs Twitter account to tell stories which convey no useful information.

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