Making an impact
Josh Long: Yes, I agree. It depresses me to think that for all the people I've met, all the hands I've shaken, and all the eyes that I've made contact with over the years, that is a super-tiny percentage of the aggregate population that may ever use our software.
It depresses me to think that I haven't made a big difference and that people are completely unaware of what people like myself do but, at some point, you have to accept that you're not the majority. Even if you change many people's minds, you're still not going to connect in a meaningful way with as many people individually as the tech itself does.
Many people are just self-starters and learn tech from their friends. There are people who learn from developer advocates like us, and they take whatever they can learn from the source. Those cutting-edge people, at the edge of the pack, then teach their friends and bring the information into their organizations. It becomes part...