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A Short History of My Last Six Years — Wait But Why

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It was June 18, 2016 when an idea for a new post popped into my head. Then I fell down a six-year rabbit hole. Here's the story.

June 18, 2016. Obama was president, the Cavs were on their way to beating the Warriors in the NBA finals, Game of Thrones was still good, and I was 34 years old with my whole life ahead of me. Wait But Why had been around for three years, a stretch during which I wrote about 100 blog posts on dozens of topics. On the afternoon of June 18, 2016, I was sitting on the couch engaging in a familiar ritual: looking through my list of future post ideas, trying to pick my next topic. And then I had a thought. So many of the post ideas I was scanning through were about the future. Virtual reality. Arti

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