Why Shitty Products Survive and Thrive

Re:Why Shitty Products Survive and Thrive by WA on Friday January 29, 2016 @11:30AM (#10996168)

future-you, I like this. I recently stumbled upon futureme.org It's a service you can use to send yourself an email in, say, 5 years. Around christmas, I wrote myself an email* to read in 10 years. There's something quite intriguing about making a bunch of predictions.

[*]: That email actually only contains a sentence: "Hey, here's something you need to read today. Search your journal for $RANDOM_UNIQUE_STRING and you'll find an entry written 10 years ago for you by your former self."

Do you put in any effort to make it readable for others? I imagine this is a significant part of blogging.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Why Shitty Products Survive and Thrive by stevesearer on Saturday January 30, 2016 @12:17AM (#11000636)

My personal blog gets very little traffic but I love going back and reading my old posts from 10 years ago. To me it is a very similar behavior to looking back at old photos I have taken.

Posts don't have to be well-written to mean something in the future in the same way that mediocre photos can carry quite a bit of feeling and emotion when you look at them after some years.

[ Parent | on HN ]