In 2004 I built my own web crawler and RSS feed reader in PHP in an attempt to build my way out of …

… In 2004 I built my own web crawler and RSS feed reader in PHP in an attempt to build my way out of the information problem. I learned that tools do not help with this problem, but it did lead to a good software development job where I was able to put what I learned to use. In 2006 - 2007 I went down a deep rabbit hole with the possibility of server side JavaScript. That led to participating in the development of the Node.js runtime, CommonJS and Promise specifications, and a career doing some pretty cool stuff with JavaScript. In 2014 - 2016 I went down a rabbit hole on video streaming which led me through a startup (which failed) and then a job at a major consumer streaming platform (which has been wildly successful). I got to build some state of the art technology because I had remembered and acted on some of that information I was hoarding. Now I feel like I've missed out on information hoarding while I've been building cool stuff in my dream job. …