A few years after Princeton University Press published William B. Helmreich’s well-received The New York Nobody Knows, it started putting out standalone “urban walking guides” to each of the five boroughs. Helmreich, a Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the City College of New York, famously walked every street in New York City, speaking with just […]
Most of people don’t know but I’ve been blogging for some time now. Actually, tomorrow will be ten years. Today is a good time to take a walk on memory lane. Four years ago, I already reflected on what I’ve learned from blogging. Funny enough, I feel it was yesterday I wrote this. Time flies. […]
October 5, 2021 ∞https://marco.org/2021/10/05/steve-jobs-ten-years Losing Steve affected me more than it probably should have, given that I never met him or had any correspondence with him. But losing him was devastating — not just to my world, but the world. He was a sort of virtual father figure: I was always hoping that maybe Steve would […]