@andybaio I too carried the torch for Reader for many years, but seem to have acquired some perspective 10 years later.

Now I'm glad when I see organizations exhibit incompetence. A world of competent organizations that are able to hold on to our attentions in the long term -- such a world is too horrible to contemplate. Probably something like Google Search or Reddit, monetization run rampant.

I'm no longer angry Google killed Reader. I'm angry I let it get into my muscle memory.

@akkartik @andybaio yeah. what i'm angry about isn't reader's demise _per se_, it's the structural role reader played in consolidating so much of the feed ecosystem that the end of a single product could massively damage it.

a lesson we never, collectively, seem to learn despite endless opportunities.