Back in the day, people used to hope their work would make them immortal. Or at least that they would be remembered for generations, or centuries. These days, you know you’re going to be forgotten in ten years, at best.
Places like the Institute for the Future and the Long Bets Foundation are trying to get people to focus on the long term. I’ll be lucky if I can focus on the immediate task before me, namely writing and editing.
I’m particularly proud of this paragraph, from the rug.1 man page:
RUG_ARGS
This environment variable is prepended to any command line
options that are passed to rug and acts as an extra set of argu-
ments. The variable is ignored if the –ignore-env flag is set.
Do not attempt to set the –ignore-env flag in the RUG_ARGS
variable; this is absurd.
Secretly Ironic 