Back in 2005 there was enough of the college-era me left that I
would have seen this outcome as a big missed opportunity. I still had
some desire, left over from the dot-com era, to win the startup
lottery. But of course the Reddit merger happened because Aaron
couldn't get a partner for Infogami. And my life over the next couple
years, including my secondhand reading of Aaron's experience at Reddit (he was fired soon after the Conde Nast acquisition) made it clear to me
that I would not enjoy winning the startup lottery any more than Aaron
did. I count this among the most important things Aaron taught me.
I've cut a lot of what I wrote here because I don't want this entry to be a bunch of stuff about me and my opinions and what I think. But I'm the one who's still here. Aaron is gone, and all that's left of him is the parts we can share.
[0] I can't let go of these little technical inconsistencies between what I'm seeing now and what I remember. It looks like during the merger, Infogami stopped being a blogging
site, and its framework (which became the first Python version of
Reddit) was renamed "Infogami". Or maybe "Infogami" was the framework
all along, and the blogging site was only one application of the
product; I don't know.
Fri Jan 18 2013 08:06 429 Too Many Requests:
I don't like repeating what everyone else is saying on this weblog,
and I don't have much to add to the general outpouring following the
death of my friend Aaron, but I have to say something, because you can't say goodbye if you don't say anything. His death was awful, our loss great, his crimes (assuming any crime was committed at all) minor, and their prosecution farcical. I feel like a lot of what
we're going through is our frustrated desire to see Aaron's case
properly litigated, to see our friend vindicated, and I have no experience with that stuff, but I do
have two personal stories to share. Two points where my life intersected with Aaron's in ways I haven't talked about publicly.