Let’s make SXSW great again

We all know the problems with SXSW. It’s too big, too loud, and too self-promotional.
All that may be true, even if it is the critique most often hurled by those who don’t travel to Austin or think they know it all already.
But this is also true: there’s no greater concentration of talent than at SXSW, and there’s no greater need for that talent to combine forces than right now.
This is a time of unique challenges facing our politics and our collective industries. The sam