Trust me Son

Posted by Nate

on January 9, 2006

You ever notice that the baggage carousel at the airport has some “prisoner’s dilemma” like proportions? If everyone would just stand 5 or 6 feet away from the carousel we could all see our luggage coming, and dive forward and pick it up with relative ease and comfort. However if part of the people rush up to the front and the others hang back, only those bold/rude souls can easily retrieve their bags quickly. If everyone tries to crowd forward there is chaos, uncomfortable sweaty chaos. (Much like a drunken frat party.) I’m just saying, maybe we could all just trust each other a little more not to sell out…

You know I first came upon MP3s back in 1995. I had a pentium 90 and could just barely listen to an mp3 without it skipping if I didn’t do too much else with my computer. Here it is 11 years later and I’m still using Winamp and listening to some of the very same mp3s I started with. That’s continuity for you.

I just finished reading “Burn Rate: How I survived the gold rush years on the internet” by Michael Wolff. Not terrible, but also fairly disjointed. It’s sort of a strange tale of the lands and sites that one could see. Fairly honest I suppose, but told with a certain sheen of unreality and lack of detail. I’d say on the whole I much prefer “High Stakes no Prisoners: A winners tale of Greed and Glory in the Internet Wars” by Charles H. Ferguson. He was the guy who owned Vemeer technologies a company stuck between netscape and Microsoft. Anyhow his tale is a little more coherent.

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