I let my hands do the thinking. What would I be excited to tell my younger self about the life I’d led? The man who started the internet meme-machine and creator of LOLcat, 4chan, at age 15 was profiled in the Wall Street Journal. I once joked to a friend that “push notifications are worse than smoking.” It may sound absurd, but you’re essentially burning the candle from the other end—with smoking you’re reducing your overall lifespan, whereas checking frivolous messages on your phone is just inching yourself closer to death with minimal benefit.And so we decided to defer a dissolution once more, this time with the task of recovering the community’s artwork. That meant agonizing over daily App Annie e-mails and Google Analytics dashboards.So I made the following chart for myself. It’s a weight I still carry to this day, but I take solace in knowing that I was able to provide the best possible outcome for our employees, users, the developer community, and local community.That’s what excites me the most: I don’t quite know what I’m looking for, but I can’t wait to find out.The time and energy I spend streaming disjointed snippets of consciousness to social media would undoubtedly be better spent writing and sharing more cohesive written works. This is probably for two reasons—first because founders rarely ask, but also because it could be considered in tension with a firm’s fiduciary responsibility to its limited partners, to whom they are ultimately accountable.I do my best thinking—and thus writing—while walking, right before falling asleep, and in the shower. And that’s all that really matters.Another, much older friend challenged me to think about myself at 50. Archive; About me; March 7th, 2016 at 2:12 pm My next chapter. In keeping with my goal of not spending leisure time on the computer, I’m leaving it behind in favor of an iPad and Kindle with which I hope to accomplish lots of reading and writing.That said, I can’t help but to feel that I spent the past four years neglecting myself. 650 Followers, 721 Following, 687 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Christopher Poole (@cdpoole) To embrace it as an opportunity to recharge and make calculated decisions about my future instead of spontaneous ones.
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Dr Christopher Poole has a PhD in physics, and has spent the last decade or so writing software and analysing data in hospitals and universities around Australia. It’s a little annoying, but I love it.I’m lucky to be surrounded by so many amazing people already, grateful to them for allowing me to be a part of their lives, and will never stop searching for more.For example, yesterday evening I found myself anxious at my computer with little to work on, so I grabbed a book and walked to a nearby park to read.
What felt like an eternity now takes only minutes, like a pot of water transitioning from a gentle simmer to a rolling boil. The average Christopher Poole is around 50 years of age with around 71% falling in to the age group of 41-60. With the team’s disbanding, AWS account compromise and subsequent shuttering of the app, I found it extremely unlikely we’d find a buyer for the IP, so I acquired it personally with the intention of open sourcing the company’s work on GitHub. As a result, the web page can not be displayed.Completing the CAPTCHA proves you are a human and gives you temporary access to the web property.