December 21st, 2009 chris
So I just finished The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand and had quite a bit to say about it, but here’s the thing. There’s really so much going on in it that I will definitely need a full blog post or two to really get it all out there, and since I’ll be reading Atlas Shrugged soon anyways, I figured I can combine the two into a super-long essay that you and Google will enjoy even more. That, and the fact that the interview that turned me onto these books in the first place pretty much said everything I feel like saying in this lazy state:
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December 3rd, 2009 chris
This blog attempts to catalog my experiences, and as such focuses on books I’ve read and software I’ve written (albeit heavily biased towards the former). As such, I feel this is a perfect time to talk about why I came across the particular name of this blog that I did, “Byzantine Reality”. Of course, if you’ve read the “About Me” page, you’ll know that Byzantine refers to software of a certain quality and not the empire of the same name. So let’s dive a little deeper and talk about what we really mean when I say we live in a Byzantine Reality.
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