Way back in May 2002, I posted my first blog post here.
I didn’t know what it would eventually become, but I just wanted to stake out a place online where I could write stuff, put it into a database, and have that database serve my stuff out to other people. Initially, it was a blog platform that I’d written myself, and then later I migrated it to Movable Type, then to WordPress.
I never would have predicted that it’d turn into a business, or a YouTube channel, an email list with tens of thousands of subscribers, or an open

