Bamboozled

Ruminations on foolishness and being fooled

Sometimes I worry my criticisms appear too personal. I’ve joked about the time immediately following my leaving the tech industry as being a vendetta, a sort of revenge arc. I worry because such emotions could discredit what otherwise are valid points. Still, it is difficult to keep hidden the emotions that fuel my writing. It is personal, all the things I write, my fervor stems from feelings of fleeting but profound joy as well as deep betrayal and hurt. I suppose no piece of writing can rid of the self. As Andrea Long Chu put it: “No critic manages to cut out her heart and hide it under the floorboards without leaving a little trail of blood”.