Welcome back, John. On Sun, Mar 23, 2025, 6:55 PM John Sundman via Silklist < [email protected]> wrote:
> Hello friends, old and new. > > If I remember correctly, Udhay first invited me to Silklist in 2008, > around the time that I wrote an essay about *Christopher Kelty's Two > Bits: The cultural significance of free software, *in which Udhay and the > list are mentioned. > > Over the years I mostly lurked, although I have chimed in at random > intervals. Then, about 4 years ago, the email address I had used for the > list became misconfigured somehow and I decided to not bother to resurrect > it because it had become overrun with spam, and so I fell off the list. > > I'm happy that as of today I'm again a member (with a different email > addy!). > > I'm a 72 year old USian novelist & essayist. For the last 30 years I've > resided on the island of Martha's Vineyard, in Massachusetts, although I've > sometimes taken lodgings elsewhere for work. My first job in 'tech' was at > Data General in 1980, and since then I've been a technical writer, manager > of writers and manager of software engineering at ~20 places, mostly > startups (Silicon Valley/San Francisco, Boston/Cambridge, NYC, etc.) I've > also been a firefighter, construction worker, long-haul truck driver and > random other things. > > I post a couple of essays/month, many of them touching on the intersection > of science, technology & society, on my substack* Sundman figures it out!* > > https://johnsundman.substack.com/ > > I look forward to reconnecting with old friends and making new ones. > > Kind regards, > > jrs > > > > > -- > Silklist mailing list > [email protected] > https://mailman.panix.com/listinfo.cgi/silklist >
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