科技聚会死了吗？
我和一群刚刚大学毕业的人在一起讨论如何避免技能退化，我说：“你们可以去参加当地的聚会。”他们在纽约市（而我现在在佛罗里达），他们说那边没什么活动，我简直不敢相信。于是我问了一些在那儿生活更久的朋友，他们说所有活动在疫情期间都停了，之后就再也没有恢复。
我曾在多个地方组织或参与过聚会，包括我来自的巴西、波士顿和费城。我们常开玩笑说，在费城的工作日里，你可以每天晚上吃比萨和可乐，聚会的数量实在太多了。你可以结识有趣的人，看到别人分享他们的经历，建立人脉，同时交朋友。在疫情期间我们搬到了佛罗里达，孩子出生后我就有点脱离了聚会的圈子，但我完全没想到情况会这么糟。
这些年轻人怎么能结识其他从业者，建立他们的人脉，甚至通过演讲展示自己呢？
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I work with a bunch of people that just left college and we were discussing how to avoid deskilling and I said "well, you could go to local meetups". They're in NYC (I'm in Florida right now) and said there isn't much going on and I couldn't believe it. Asked some more experienced friends that have been living there for longer and they said that it all died during COVID and never came back.<p>I ran or helped organize meetups in multiple places, back in Brazil where I'm from, Boston and then Philadelphia. We used to joke you could have pizza and coke for dinner every night in PHL during the week for the number of meetups we had. You'd meet cool people, see people sharing their experiences, build your network and make friends all at the same time. During COVID we moved to Florida and got kids so I kinda got out of the loop with meetups, but I had no idea it was this bad.<p>How are these kids going to meet other practitioners, build their network and even put themselves out there by presenting?