While Andrew and Craig believe the joy of discovery is crucial to enjoying any well told tale,

they will not shy away from spoiling specific story beats when necessary.

Plus, these are books you should have read by now.

It's just the the thing about writing on the internet is that

nothing is nothing is out of bounds. Like you will, if you choose to criticize something,

you will invariably find a clutch of people who have dedicated their lives to defending that thing.

That seems yeah, that seems about right. Like today, I made an offhand reference to something

called the Apple Newton in an article, which for those of you who weren't alive like a million

years ago, it was this like this platform of apples, it was like a pda like a palm pilot or something,

but you're supposed to be able to write into it and then it would recognize your handwriting and

turn it into typed text and it just works super well and it got killed in like 1998 and I insulted it

today in 2014 by calling it ill-fated, which I mean I think anything that works the way it worked

and got discontinued that long ago, I think, you know, fits the definition. Yeah, that seems

about right. And I got like as many tweets about that as I've gotten about anything in

recent memory, like I got retweeted by somebody who runs like a list serve of people dedicated

to this old technology. People were sending me like pictures of their desks and they have these

things sitting on them and they're still using them like every day. It's it's crazy. Andrew,

these are people who run lists serves like not to disparage what anyone's jam is, but you have

to understand that the people into weirdo old technology that isn't useful anymore are the same

people who actually sign up for MailChimp when people tell them to don't say it isn't useful anymore

because you will bring the internet's wrath down upon you. Did you know that this was the last

useful piece of technology that anybody made? It was all downhill from there. That's not. I

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