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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 Unpublished notes can turn into indecipherable atemporal soup after a few years
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I’ll retire it either in 25 or 42y unless I die or get seriously infirm first or the internet gets shut down by zombie apocalypse. So 10 or 27 more years. The biggest existential risk is actually Wordpress surviving that long.
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Metaverse or bust Actually what I call the Paraverse… the interstices of the official platforms. Bootleg servers running spaces kinda like Diagon Alley, beyond where the official spatial grid ends
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