Why don't I attend conferences or listen to podcasts? Answer: too homogeneous and too long

Pontifications

Why don’t I attend conferences or listen to podcasts? Answer: too homogeneous and too long
I’d rather talk to people in the lobby of a conference or at a cafe then listen to a talk for 20-60 minutes.
I’d rather people summarize their stuff in the 1st 10 slides (or less! I bet most folks talks could be 5 slides and most podcasts could be 10 minutes or less) and talk for 5 or 10 minutes and then do a long Q&A (and put the long form detailed stuff in a wiki page or blog post that they link to in those slides)
I’d rather not have more of the same sorts of the same people who are always on the radio and in the books I read and in the media I consume when I can easily find more diverse voices on the internet without going to a conference and without enduring a >30 minute podcast!
Having said that conferences with diverse folks and speakers are still appealing and so are short podcasts (although short podcasts seem to be very very scarce!).