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Fimoculous.com: Feeding On Itself: a revisiting of Microserf’s from a Microserf.

Microserfs remains to this day one of the most important novels to my life, and one that I revisit ad nauseam. I think it speaks to the nascent desire within all techies to somehow create their own weltanshung in which they can “connect” to others on their own terms. At some point, because of our latent tendencies, these individualized spheres of perception intersect, and when they do, something beautiful happens.

Usually technology. Sometimes music. Sometimes movies.

The best of what we produce is done through our desire to frame the world on our own terms, and hope that in some way, others will share that view. When it happens, its beautiful, fulfilling and inspiring. It doesn’t happen often.

When I read Microserfs for the first time, I was 15 years old, and read it in Wired Magazine (a subscription I got for my birthday in 1993). I read the book when it first came out, but didn’t connect with it until I reread it in 2004. A lot has changed since I was 15, and since the book was first published. But what hasn’t changed is that I still seek that connection, and still feel that we’re at the constant brink of something great, its just a matter of finding those to do Great with.