> This stuff isn't relevant at all to the talk - he never talks about npm or anything to do with package managers but instead how node does imports etc.
He does have it in his slides.
Slide titled: "Regret: package.json", last 2 points:
> Ultimately I included NPM in the Node distribution, which much made it the defacto standard.
> It's unfortunate that there is a centralized (privately controlled even) repository for modules.