Reducing my international speaking

I've been immensely privileged to be invited to speak at various international developer conferences, and until now I've usually tried to accept the majority of those invitations. I've had a wonderful time, and made many dear friends - who I've often then caught up with at other events.

However, I've recently found that travelling has become increasingly disruptive for me as a human - mostly in terms of missing my family. Additionally, I'm finding it hard to justify taking so many flights when it comes to the environmental cost of flying.

I still intend to do some international speaking (assuming I'm still invited, of course) and probably more UK-based talks. Additionally, I'm very happy to work with any conferences who'd be interested in me speaking remotely via a live stream. I'm hoping that the future of developer conferences is a mixture of in-person talks (which absolutely still have their place) and remote talks which retain the element of interactivity with attendees. I'm more than happy to get up in the middle of the night to fit in with a schedule, etc.

I'll be linking to this post if/when I decline invitations on these grounds, partly as a way of demonstrating It's not you, it's me." If you're reading this post in that context, please understand that I wish you all the best for your conference, and I'm pretty confident that you'll be able to find a much more interesting speaker than me anyway :)