One of my prized possessions is a short autobiography by my great-grandfather who was a farmer in France born in 1902

Chapters include

- I saw the beginning of electrification
- I saw the first cars
- I saw the first airplanes
- I smoked my first cigarette at 7
- The telephone
- 1914: The war
- I had the Spanish flu

making /obsidian • writing stephango.com

Pages 46-54 is what I would really really really love to read. Is it written in hindsight or did he keep logs/diary that ended up being this? I wonder how these events were lived when people didn’t know how they played along the greater arc of history.

Mapping fractals → living systems.  
Tech that heals.  
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he wrote this between the ages of 80-90 years old