Thank you, Thaths. I very much appreciate your endorsement.

Everyone else: Hear him! Hear him!

Kind regards,

jrs


On Sun, Mar 23, 2025 at 4:03 PM Thaths via Silklist <
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> Welcome back, John. I'm a fan of your newsletter.
>
> S.
>
> On Sun, Mar 23, 2025, 6:45 AM Venkat Mangudi - Silk via Silklist <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> 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
>>>
>>>
>>>
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