15y anniversary of ribbonfarm tomorrow 😵💫
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I actually stealth-launched in June but officially launched (and spammed my email address book) on July 4. Symbolic independence etc. Here’s my first month roundup. I wrote 17 posts in 6 weeks. A couple actually good
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15y is a long time
The July 4 review of the 2 physics books went mildly viral and was my first experience of getting a reaction. I think hitting a nerve early is what locked me in for the long haul. People who write for months to crickets give up
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I have periodically considered sanitizing the archives by deleting the 80% dreck of early years, but I leave it up to encourage newbies 😆
Possibly the only purely altruistic thing I do. I’d delete 12 of these 17 posts otherwise.
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It’s also a decent historical record/second brain/pensieve
Even terrible posts provide a window into headspace of the time. The chronological logging and regularity are very valuable. Unpublished notes can turn into indecipherable atemporal soup after a few years
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Publishing in public vaccinates memory against bitrot though at the cost of some masking. Fortunately I’m pretty wysiwyg so the cost is low.
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Your work has touched me in ineffable ways.
I remember a friend emailing me this article way back in 2010 and then I started immersing in your works. 12 years gone and I still keep coming back to ribbonfarm universe in different ways.
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Congrats!
(Damn I feel old. When I was at the convertkit conference, I suspect 60% of the audience didn’t know who Tim urban was)
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