when i was cool
November 26, 2005
While I was doing a little site housekeeping over the weekend, I found myself face-to-face with my five year-ago self, back when I first started posting in July 2000.
At the time, I was living a fully shameless dotcom lifestyle, paying exorbitant rent on a Potrero loft, sitting in my Aeron chair, working for startups, waiting for my options to kick in ...
and typing everything in lower case.
I forget who said that if you ever hope to write anything good, you have to commit to doing a whole lot of bad writing first. Well, by that standard, I should be expecting a call from Stockholm any day now.
In times past, we used to bury our bad writing in journals. Today, all it takes is the click of a publish button to expose the kind of execrable stuff that - with the benefit of five years' hindsight - belonged in a ratty notebook somewhere at the bottom of a storage bin. I am happy to report that the most egregious dreck has been flushed (le mot juste) from the archives, though I won't be so bold as to certify this site free from bad writing anytime soon.
File under: Personal
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