Oh hmm I might just be wrong here. Some quick points:
I didn’t know Scott’s exact age, and thought he is younger.
In particular I thought this was written when he was younger (EDIT: than 25), couldn’t figure out exactly when.
EA has more infrastructure/ability to discover great bloggers/would-be bloggers who are interested in EA-ish issues than we previously had.
I think it’s easier to be recognized as an EA blogger than it used to be 5-10 years ago, though probably harder to “make it big” (since more of the low-hanging fruit in EA blogging have been plucked).
I think I wrote that piece in 2010 (based on timestamp on version I have saved, though I’m not 100% sure that’s the earliest draft). I would have been 25-26 then. I agree that’s the first EA-relevant thing I wrote.
The missing info for me was that Scott had yet another alias, as Denise kindly replied. I think the lesson learned is “If you have a good reason not to reveal your identity, at least stick to just one alias”.
Oh hmm I might just be wrong here. Some quick points:
I didn’t know Scott’s exact age, and thought he is younger.
In particular I thought this was written when he was younger (EDIT: than 25), couldn’t figure out exactly when.
EA has more infrastructure/ability to discover great bloggers/would-be bloggers who are interested in EA-ish issues than we previously had.
I think it’s easier to be recognized as an EA blogger than it used to be 5-10 years ago, though probably harder to “make it big” (since more of the low-hanging fruit in EA blogging have been plucked).
I think I wrote that piece in 2010 (based on timestamp on version I have saved, though I’m not 100% sure that’s the earliest draft). I would have been 25-26 then. I agree that’s the first EA-relevant thing I wrote.
See https://web.archive.org/web/20131230140344/http://squid314.livejournal.com/243765.html?(Also I think the webpages you link to are from no later than 2008, and clustered up to November 2008.)
(The dead-child thing was almost certainly written in 2008.) (Edit: see https://web.archive.org/web/20131230140344/http://squid314.livejournal.com/243765.html.)
Thanks for finding this. Assuming he wrote this around the time that it was posted, he’d have been 24.
Maybe I’m just ignorant here, but where’s Scott in that link?
The quoted excerpt from the post, and the original “Dead Child Currency” post in general, is written by Scott.
The missing info for me was that Scott had yet another alias, as Denise kindly replied. I think the lesson learned is “If you have a good reason not to reveal your identity, at least stick to just one alias”.
Wouldn’t be the lesson I’ll take here, but probably not that important! :)
Yvain is Scott’s old LW name.