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20 November 2025 - Erlenbach
Tim Berners-Lee is an infectiously optimistic and positive writer, which comes through in spades in his autobiographical This is for Everyone. Earlier this month while reading it I wrote a longer blog reacting to his life story. It's kind of amazing that a computer guy at CERN could just create such a transformative technology as HTML and the web browser. When he writes about loving Quicken and then becoming disillusioned with the way that Intuit used his data to the point where he wrote his own scripts to replace it was exactly my experience too. And his idea for Solid was a much more fleshed out version of the idea that I had with FarleyFile. I hope someone eventually figures out a solution for data that can be as easily and as widely adopted as the web. While the book is written in Berners-Lee's voice, it was no doubt mostly actually written by his silent co-author, Stephen Witt, who also penned the excellent book about Jensen Huang and Nvidia that I read earlier this year.
