Rob Conery’s NDC Porto 2025 keynote dives into the unsung hero of innovation: play. He revisits moments like Claude Shannon’s mechanical mouse experiments and the Homebrew Computer Club’s beer-fueled schematic swaps to show how unplanned, curiosity-driven tinkering has sparked some of the biggest tech revolutions.
By tracing this playful thread—from early open-source jamborees to today’s AI side projects—Conery argues that goofing off with bold ideas isn’t a distraction, it’s the very engine of serious, world-changing work.
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