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“I’ve got an art degree, but I’m thinking about going back to school for physics.”
“What draws you to physics?”
“Well, physics is like art to me, in that I think it’s sublime. But in physics, there aren’t trends to grab onto. It is what it is.”
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I made my first website with a friend when I was in 7th grade. It was called Gaming Galaxy Online. It was extremely cheesy— with a giant animated GIF as the title graphic, and pretty much all content harvested straight from other sources. The page never got any traffic, but I remember how exciting it was to build the site. The internet seemed like a place where a 7th grader could participate in the adult world on a level playing field. My friend and I tried one website idea after another. None of them really worked, but we felt very empowered. On the internet, it felt like we were one good idea away from a very adultlike level of success. And like pretty much everyone else in 1996, our free websites were hosted on Geocities.com.
Fast forward almost 20 years—- in my late twenties, after countless attempts, I’ve finally managed to create a popular website. And last night I was out gathering content. I was walking past the Apple Store on 59th and 5th when I spotted a man sitting alone in the plaza. I asked for his photo, he agreed. “What was the happiest moment of your life?” I asked him.
“Probably when my company had its IPO,” he answered. “I founded a company called Geocities.com.”
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“What was the saddest moment of your life?”
“When my father died.”
“How did he die?”
“He was in an accident back in Guyana. He was riding a motorcycle and got thrown into a stream.”
“Do you remember a moment when you most admired your father?”
“My father was a carpenter. And when I was growing up, he would take a ferry every morning across the river to find work. It was the Essequibo River. A very dangerous river. When he returned home in the evening, sometimes I would wait by the docks for him. Every once in awhile, the tides were so bad that the boat could not land. And it would wait offshore. If he saw me waiting for him, he would jump off the boat and swim to me. No other man would do that. It was a very dangerous river.”
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