People keep asking me why are the contents are organized chronologically instead of by topic. Here's why:

1. so I can continue to feature the gumption memo, but show that it's dated material -- that way I don't have to keep updating it, and I can distance myself (my current self) from some of the positions I took in 1993
   

2. more generally, so that I can let the content go stale without stressing about it
   

3. so that I'll never need to re-organize thematically, which would take some work if you didn't want to break people's links and bookmarks
   

4. so that the entries each have some temporal context
   

5. so that people returning to the site after a few years away only have to look at the most recent additions, not sift through the whole site again
   

6. so that I can add stuff easily without thinking too much about it
   

7. so I can make a namespace in which all the URLs are nice and short, which means people can send them in e-mail without line wrapping problems

 

If you're interested in some more ideas about URIs, and namespaces, and how to organize web content, then check out Tim Berners-Lee's 1998 essay, Cool URIs don't change.

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