Sunshocked

I wrote this back in September of 2002. I was living in Indiana post-college and working my first full-time job. I had a mango-colored mohawk.

A week of daily blogging and here’s where we stand.

I’m not the only person to suggest that the very nature of the web challenges existing power structures, but harnessing that nature into specific projects that can be completed in a reasonable amount of time with limited resources requires more thinking.

It will soon be the one year anniversary of the Stanifesto and I’ve decided to start celebrating early by tidying things up a bit. Reap the benefits of my numerological neuroticism!

The “talk to someone” function on my cell gets used approximately once a week. Maybe twice if I get locked out of somewhere (which admittedly happened yesterday). Still, people look at me like I’m crazy when I talk about swearing off for good.

It seems that a formula of no sleep and immoderate drinking, mixed with handshaking and strangers, and topped with being caught in not one but two thunderstorms last week has left me quite ill.

Being a white, heterosexual male in the tech industry is not without its challenges. Some of the biggest revolve around how to make the tech industry less white, heterosexual, and male.

At 29, I’ve lived longer than Jimi Hedrix, James Dean, and Kurt Cobain. I had almost given up on celebrity, but then I go and get named Time Magazine’s 2006 Person of the Year. All I can say, “It’s about frickin’ time.”

It was neither High Fidelity nor Merlin Mann that inspired the following very important list of why lists are very important, but the surfeit of posts on Digg, Tailrank, and Reddit that are merely compilations of things already known—and, specifically, that these posts are wildly popular. Here’s why.

This Friday the 13th, my website went down. But just like Jason, it’s back from the dead stronger than ever and ready to cause some damage thanks to the fine folks over at DreamHost.