every now and then someone will email me out of nowhere to be like "hey I read one of your 2015 Atlantic stories on internet infrastructure and here's my related anecdote gleaned from spending decades working on some niche aspect of industry, take care!" and it is a real treat
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I'm pretty sure more than half of those stories don't hold up/weren't even that great when they were published, but it's nice that some people still get something out of them!
