Gregory Todd Williams

A very brief list of things that have changed my life in the last few years. (I guess eight years is the upper limit here.)

• Jack Kerouac, via Beat Literature, via Peter Sawaya.
• Kim Stanley Robinson, for stunning displays of imagination, thoughtfulness and depth in his near and distant futures. Specifically, The Mars Trilogy and The Gold Coast.
• Rage Against the Machine, for providing politically stimulating lyrics at a time in my life when I was anything but politically interested.
• Peter Singer, for philosophies summed up nicely in Writings on an Ethical Life.
• Libby Miller, for a ping directing me to the FOAF project, sucking me in to the semweb stuff.
• Trishula Oswald, for convincing me to move to the east coast.
• The Clock of the Long Now via Brian Eno via TorgoX [1, 2]
• Adam Pisoni, for always being open to discuss new ideas and being available when I greatly needed feedback on life decisions.
• Timothy Kudo, for uncountable reasons. A few of those being: my first introduction to philosophy, knowing when I needed a good kick to get my life out of a rut, being someone to always look up to, …
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