Blog by Sumana Harihareswara, Changeset founder

17 Nov 2001, 7:50 a.m.

I did, in fact, go to bed around 3:40. …

Hi, reader. I wrote this in 2001 and it's now more than five years old. So it may be very out of date; the world, and I, have changed a lot since I wrote it! I'm keeping this up for historical archive purposes, but the me of today may 100% disagree with what I said then. I rarely edit posts after publishing them, but if I do, I usually leave a note in italics to mark the edit and the reason. If this post is particularly offensive or breaches someone's privacy, please contact me.

I did, in fact, go to bed around 3:40. I stayed up for a tiny bit reading The One Best Way. I really like Kanigel's method, though he gets repetitive in talking about young Taylor's taste for numbers and measures, and in stressing that "this was a different time, the late nineteenth century, really, remember this, you'd better remember that this was a different time when goods weren't nearly so ubiquitous and easy to make and most every manufacturing process involved craftsmanship." I sort of mind the repetition, but then again, since I'm a modern consumer and I often forget how new and unusual it is to have such abundance of disposable goods, perhaps I need the repetition.