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After Aaron Swartz: The Tech World Must Talk About Depression

Tuesday, January 15, 2013 14:53
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As with so many others, Aaron Swartz had an indelible impact on my life. I didn’t know Aaron well; we exchanged a dozen emails in early 2008. Still, if you followed the geekier aspects of Mac and web standards culture in the early 2000s, it was hard not to run across Aaron’s work.
You probably know the basic outline by now. He co-wrote the spec for RSS at 14. He was part of Creative Commons at the very beginning. He beta-tested Markdown for John Gruber. Oh, and he co-founded Reddit (whether acknowledged or not) and sold it to Condé Nast.
The guy was a genius, in the purest sense of the word.
When I first emailed Aaron, we were at different phases in our life… Continue reading…
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