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For me, the meaning of life is to leave the world a better place than you found it. Many of us will come and go, leaving ripples that fade over time into the noise of history. A select few, though, will play the role of chaos theory’s butterfly. Through actions that perhaps even appear insignificant, they’ll kick [...]
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Jim captures the essence of why I stopped following local news: it favors the trivial. During college I ended up relying on NPR to keep abreast of things.
But when I stopped commuting, I lost that radio-listening time. Since I’d already taken to RSS feeds for most information streams, I eventually tried adding the BBC and Google News; there’s [...]
Being erased ...
Inspired by a mention of Eternal September, I spent some time today trying to place my memory of it on the ol’ mental timeline.
Last time I researched myself, Google found many of my Usenet posts from 1993. Today, though, it finds only a handful, with the earliest discoverable message from November 1993 and a nostalgia-inducing attempt to help someone [...]
It was recently pointed out to me that my LinkedIn profile has grown to 118 connections. If you asked me to name people I know, I doubt I’d be able to produce a list that long, so I determined it was time to go through and trim those one-time professional contacts that I don’t expect to every reconnect with.
I expected [...]
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