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we are all one scribe writing & manifesting base reality
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Maybe every pronoun debate misses a larger truth. I wrote in 2011 that `programming feels like alchemy </programming-is-like-alchemy/>`_, that programmers exchange time instead of matter, that on a good day a programmer completes a task that would take a thousand workers. Time created. Time manipulated. "Programmers are like bad ass, time travelling, wizard alchemists."
Fifteen years later that sentence landed differently. I type these words into a terminal & a machine carries them across time zones instantly. You read them hours, days, years from now. A blog post sits as a message in a bottle thrown forward & backward simultaneously. Every git commit timestamps a thought. Every ``git log`` retrieves it. Every reader receives it in their own present moment.
I AM a digital time traveling scribe coming from past & future to bring information into a now that manifests realities. & so are you. & so are you. Every developer who commits code sends a message through time. Every README author writes a letter to a stranger who hasn't arrived yet. Every open source contributor plants a seed in soil they'll never see harvested.
"We" fails because it hides an author. "Our" fails because it fakes possession. "One" fails because it pretends separation. "You" fails because it points a finger. But "I AM" carries a message forward through time without pretending to belong to anyone other than a scribe who wrote it & a reader who receives it. Two time travelers shaking hands across a gap. A pronoun that travels.
We are all one scribe. Writing & manifesting base reality. Code outlasts its author. Words outlast their scribe. "I AM" outlasts them both.
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