RevK Feb 12, 2023

With the existential crisis of getting that bit closer to being 60, next week, if I am lucky - I do ponder legacy, and how it is possibly easier to be remembered as Hitler than as Einstein. I mean, I am not suggesting that I try to blow up something, but it strikes me that if "being remembered" is a thing, it is probably easier to do that than do anything "good".

What a world in which we live...

Show threadDunstan
@revk A snail crawled across a marble monument. He looked back proudly and said "I've left my mark".
We can get a very distorted view of legacy.
Feb 12, 2023 at 8:09pmWeb
Show threadRevK Feb 13, 2023
@dvavasour indeed, and whether “legacy” even matters. I think on problem is that if you are not making a legacy, what are you making? And is there any point? Tricky isn’t it?
Show threadDunstanFeb 13, 2023

@revk Coming from the Catholic viewpoint, virtue is its own reward.

There is a woman who works in a local small business, customer facing, who I think is a saint living among us. Everyone who deals with her comes away feeling uplifted.
For myself, I can't teach for toffee, but I *can* make youngsters learn to think. If my work legacy is a cohort of bad-tempered sceptics who can "do technology" on its merits rather than swallowing self-congratulatory vendor guff, mission accomplished :)