These last two days I have been going back through my computer files for the last decade or so. This is because we are presenting a course at the Siggraph computer graphics conference, which will include a retrospective of our lab’s research.<\/p>\n
It’s quite a remarkable experience going back through the last decade or so of your life. The memory gets jogged in all sorts of interesting ways.<\/p>\n
I am rediscovering memories of people and places I have not thought about for quite a while. And I am getting a sense of what my mindset was back then — which in many ways was very different from the way I think now.<\/p>\n
If you are the sort of person who keeps around files from years ago, I highly recommend this sort of retrospective exercise. Go back and look at all your files, in chronological order.<\/p>\n
The experience of visiting with your past self can be fascinating, if possibly unsettling. You may just learn a thing or two.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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