Good for you. I've only been here five years so it's good to see that you've made it to the bigtime.
I wouldn't go *that* far. Besides, it's the magic of the Fedora.
Seriously.
Last year, I tried a couple of small social experiments. When I was at Anthology Together 24, I didn't have my hat with me. No one even gave me a notice. And despite my *trying* to meet new people, well, I guess I wasn't that memorable. But then, I was rather bored at the conference, so there was that too. I went to Vegas last month for AT25, with my Fedora - and wouldn't you know it, people would come up and talk to me - mostly predicated on the words, "hey, nice hat". I still didn't walk away with any meaningful contacts and I was still bored, but, it did something.
I tried this also at Partner Summit '24 in Atlanta. I'd circulated wearing the hat and folks would come up to me like I was some kind of rockstar. It was weird. But I guess more people knew me. So I tried something - took off the hat, circulated through the room and...it was like I was invisible. Put the hat back on and - people came up to me.
Maybe it's something like Clark Kent's glasses. Or John Watson's line from Sherlock with respect to his deerstalker, "You're Sherlock Holmes. Wear the damned hat."
And if it worked for Frosty the Snowman...
It's all in the hat.
Meanwhile, all that to say, I'm just a working class schlub that gets to hang with some good people here on CIN. And, okay, that goes for you to, Greg.
Anyway, back to the salt mines. Fixing SAP reports in Anthology awaits.
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