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Chatting with a guy at the Denver Bouldering Project coworking spot flipped my view on meetups
He told me he stopped going to big generic 'freelancer' mixers because they felt like sales pitches. Instead, he finds small workshops for specific skills, like a recent Figma animation class. He said the real connections happen when you're actually learning together, not just swapping cards. Now I'm looking for a local WordPress plugin dev meetup instead of the big monthly mixer. Anyone found a good small group for something specific like that?
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cora81321d agoMost Upvoted
People talk about quiet quitting like it's some new epidemic, but isn't it just... having a job? Most folks have always done their core tasks and gone home. Calling it a trend makes it sound way more dramatic. It's just a new name for clocking out at five instead of burning out.
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laura_wilson22d ago
Read a blog post about this exact thing, lol.
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craig.piper21d ago
Yeah, it's funny how that happens. You see one blog post about something, then suddenly you notice it everywhere. Like when you learn a new word and then hear it three times in a day. I saw a video about "quiet quitting" and then started seeing signs of it in my own office, with people just doing the bare minimum. It makes you wonder if the idea was always there or if talking about it just makes us see it more.
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