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 >> >> >> >> >> -- >> Silklist mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://mailman.panix.com/listinfo.cgi/silklist >> > -- > Silklist mailing list > [email protected] > https://mailman.panix.com/listinfo.cgi/silklist >
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