Mon 07 April 2025

About a week ago, I had the pleasure of answering some interview-style questions from Hyde that got posted to his blog series, Over/Under.

Give it a read, as I had a lot of fun writing my responses, such that I forgot to actually answer "Overrated/Underrated" to some of his questions. 😄 (Luckily, it was easy enough to infer what I was saying from the novella I provided in response to each question, and he was able to add in the implied one-word answer 🤦‍♂️ 😂)

This morning, as I was getting ready and having some quiet time to read, I was excited to see there was a new episode/post, with our mutal fedifriend Amin answering the questions.

The first question was about libraries, and I'm obviously in agreement with both of them: libraries are incredibly underrated!

Some of my warmest memories as a kid were from spending long hours at the enormous six-floor library at the university where my mom was a graduate student. I always found something to do there: working on homework, looking at children's books, and later technical magazines like MacWorld, and of course, playing around with the amazing IBM 3270 terminals that the library catalog was accessed through.

I could wax poetic about how libraries are like grand, holy temples to human knowledge, but more importantly, they are the very last remaining truly public gathering space in our modern lives that aren't built, regulated, and controlled by corporations.

Libraries are truly of and for the people, and are a safe space for children and adults to go to to pursue their own betterment.

I simply can't think of anything better than that.

100 Days to Offload 2025 - Day 16

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