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title: Five Things I Never Could Have Imagined Doing
description: Lightning Talk on the important things in life.
conference: ApacheCon Miami
video: "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5H52orWNIxw&t=1129s"
---

Lightning Talks - quick 5 minute talks, no slides, about anything related to Apache - are a tradition at ApacheCon.  I returned as co-host for the Lightning Talks in 2017, and also gave my own heartfelt talk.

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Five Things I Never Could Have Imagined Doing
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### Abstract

After many years of giving my traditional [Why I Love The ASF](http://whyilovetheasf.com/) Lightning Talk, this year [Rich Bowen](http://drbacchus.com/) (Mr. ApacheCon) took up that mantle, and gave his own talk about why he cares so deeply about Apache.  That meant I was finally free to give a new talk!

Five things I never could have imagined doing - if you had told me earlier in life I would be doing open source, or starting a family - I wouldn't have believed you.  There are a couple of ideas that wouldn't even have made sense to me earlier in life - not just that **I** wouldn't do something, but that thing was even possible.

The rest of the video includes Jim and I hosting, and plenty of other great Apache speakers too!

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Real life comes first.  And it often surprises you.

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