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This is where I will be posting public content from my professional life as well as aspects of my personal life and hobbies. After 30 years of developing products and software systems for the Internet, I am finally starting to put a bit more public information on the Internet. As with nearly everything else on the Internet, this is very much a work in progress.
tl;dr: A first person account of the lives of the working poor, from a survivor of domestic turbulence...
With Ohio senator J.D. Vance soon to be inaugurated as the Vice President of the United States, I decided to read his memoir Hillbilly Elegy, a book that I’ve known of since its publication and initial success. Actually I listened to the audiobook version, which Vance himself reads. Soon after its publication Hillbilly Elegy was popular with book clubs, well before Vance got into politics. It covers some pertinent family history and his early life, up until the time that he graduates from Yale Law School and becomes a lawyer, so it ends before his foray into venture capital and then politics. Now that he is a prominent figure in the Team Red versus Team Blue War, many holding opposing political views may be tempted to dismiss Hillbilly Elegy. This is a shame. It is just one person’s story, of course, but it describes many of the challenges facing people in the communities where Vance was raised...
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