Travels with Samantha
by Philip Greenspun · first published 2000
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Travels with Samantha was probably one of the earliest things you really wanted to read on the Web: https://philip.greenspun.com/samantha/ That was in the days when you could have a personal homepage with "the" interesting…
on “Early Retirement (2006)” ↗Something that captivated my imagination back in 1993 was the blog -- before there was a word for it -- called Travels with Samantha by Philip Greenspun. The site is still online, with the original content from the 1990s: https://philip.greenspun.com/samantha/ This "travel photography" journal of one man changed my life in several…
on “Travel photos are underrated (2019)” ↗…a profound essay that talked about human conversation as an error correcting mechanism, and it changed how I talk with others forever) https://billstclair.com/doug/alaskanalpineclub.com/index.htm... Travels with Samantha by Philip Greenspun - showed me storytelling on the web in a way I had never seen it before https://philip.greenspun.com/samantha/
on “Ask HN: What are some essays that profoundly changed the way you think” ↗Your #1 is most of the explanation; Phil is a net.personality from way back ("Travels with Samantha", 1994), as well as a pithy writer of several perennial pieces of HN text (like: http://philip.greenspun.com/careers/women-in-science).
on “Empty Mansions: Don’t be old and rich in New York City” ↗