The Necessary Pain Involved in Blogging (if you want your work to be preserved beyond your lifespan)

I am thinking a lot these days about my own mortality. That’s not because I am obsessed with death or anything of the sort. It’s more that my health problems are accumulating and I do not know how long my body is going to hold out against them. It might be that I can clear all my current infections. But it turns out that norovirus, which I have had for four months, can be life threatening in the…