“The internet is full of smart people writing beautiful prose about how bad everything is, how it all sucks, how it’s embarrassing to like anything, how anything that appears good is, in fact, secretly bad. I find this confusing and tragic, like watching Olympic high-jumpers catapult themselves into a pit of tarantulas.”
@mjd in a similar vein to 3, a sad story that to me is paradoxical hope
Dr. August Dvorak devoted his life to typing and created his own keyboard layout -- which millions of nerds, including me, use (I'm using it right now)
But he never knew that. Not only was he rejected at every turn because typewriter manufacturers didn't want to change what sold, but it didn't even become an ANSI standard until 2 years after he died
He died believing his life was a waste
His work is used by millions
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