A long, long time ago, on an old wordpress website found on the Wayback Machine, there is a blog post that I wrote. Back when I thought I had a better understanding of the world than I actually did, and believed myself to be the next great philosophical author, one of my earliest blog posts became one that likely shaped my future way of thinking. It wasn’t a great blog post, nor very eloquently or clearly written, but the conclusion still regularly pops into my mind to this day. 13 years and a dozen career changes later, it still impacts me. Tonight, I had this urge of wanting to go back through the Wayback Machine and read my ramblings and articles to see how much I had changed over the years. To my surprise, other than an awkward phase at the end of high school and going into college, I can still see shimmers of my current self reflected in…
