This is probably something I shouldn't admit, since it devalues my archives, but I have this vague sense of consciously working to "retire" an old online persona and trying to incubate a new one, just as a lot more people are beginning to discover it
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When I look back on my "work" (seems like a ponderous word for it) over the last decade, I'm reminded of a Hindi proverb that translates to "excavated a mountain, and a rat scurried out". Not self-deprecation, just the statistics of transience.
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There's like a million and a half words there, and the worth-preserving subset is maybe ideas enough to fill a couple of postcards, and no, they're not lofty compressions that expand to a million if you add water. It's just... thinking is a low-yield process.
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Also, cache invalidation. I started blogging and newslettering and tweeting in 2007, which means 9 of the 12 years of my archives are pre-weirding. I'm lucky *any* of it retains any sort of relevance in 2019.
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If you made AlphaGoZero play against itself trying to come up with 2x2s, it would take 48 hours to come up with everything I have, and more 😆
