My daughter was watching a kids show today and I overheard this exchange between two characters:
Character 1: “Is it real?”
Character 2: “No, better! It’s pretend!”
This week I stumbled down a rabbit hole; I found most of my old blogs over at The Internet Archive's Wayback Machine. Nearly all my old posts were there, most of which I thought were gone forever, along with all sorts of links to people and events I had forgotten about.
I was able to use the wayback machine downloader to download all the old content (sans some of the images), and now it's stored safely in a backup folder.
As I was going through the old posts I considered re-posting all of them, reviving the historical record of my blogging. After I read through them, though, there were just so many that I now disagree with that I'm not sure I'll be re-posting them after all.
It's an interesting experience to see your past self and realize how much you've changed. For me, there's both the embarrassing element of reading something I would never write today as well as the satisfaction of having not been in stasis for the last decade or more.
I'm still sifting though the backlog; some of the old posts will probably get resurrected, but I think it might be best to just leave some of them to the dust of time, or at least down in the depths where only those who are willing to go spelunking will stumble across them.
Early in my career I worked for a really shady company.
Looking back, I wish I had quit earlier, and for better reasons.
It seems like it's going to be hard for anyone to look back on their time working at Facebook in 2019 and be proud of it.
by Hugh Howey
Wool is an apocalyptic fiction set in the far-future on Earth. The characters live their lives in a 100+ story silo that’s been built entirely underground. The outside world is uninhabitable, but at times it can feel so close. Ancient cities can still be seen on the horizon. When the secrets of the silo begin to be revealed not everyone can handle the implications.
With great characters and a unique environment, I thoroughly enjoyed Wool, staying up way too late to finish it. It offers a future that’s quite a bit different from other apocalyptic fiction I’ve enjoyed. The constraints imposed on the occupants of the silo made for a great story, and I’m thoroughly looking forward to the rest of the series.