Who Are Your Lifelines?

This was originally voted up as a story at Kuro5hin.org (K5) on Jan 28, 2015.

In the comments to HN submission 'RIP Kuro5hin', I posted about my story having been the last to post, and that I was thinking about getting a domain of my own. One of you responded, "Please do that. I enjoyed your stories, particularly 'Who Are Your Lifelines?'" [1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11609802

I'd started blogging about my taxi passengers at K5 in March, 2012, after my 8th lease. My original intention was to help me better remember all the interesting people I was meeting. I posted at K5 because I wanted to be anonymous, and was not looking for attention (the site was already on life support at that time).