I was talking to Robert Wong, the ECD at CreativeLab, not long ago in our office. He told me a story I’ve not stopped thinking about. A friend of his had opened a Gmail account when he had had a child (I think, actually, even before they were born), in the child’s name. His friend had been writing emails to his son as a kind of record of his life as he grew up. They were now four or five years old. I thought this was awesome. Imagine if our parents had done that, how different our relationships with them might be?
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