Thanks for your kind words. I wish I’d known you were in the audience. I’ve been following your blog for a while now and would have enjoyed a chance to talk to you some.

As for your concerns about the conference, they’re valid in many ways. But of course it’s much easier for us to tell our students that it’s good to be uncomfortable than it is for us to place ourselves in that position. [I didn't go to any panels outside my comfort zone this time either.]

So, how do we get historians to reach outside their specializations and/or non-digital training? Figuring that out is key to the discipline’s future.