Ask HN: How do you want to be remembered?
I've been pondering this after being repeatedly asked for biographies for press releases or whatever.
How do you want to be remembered?
How do you want to be remembered?
The rest is detail.
In this way, people could influence how others remember them in a more direct way.
This is why it is important for everyone to learn programming -- so that everyone could create such a simulation of themselves.
A tool to allow people to create such a simulation could be an intresting idea for a start-up.
Also, the guy who invented that thing. You know, that replaced razors? (I remember this as being my favorite sci-fi trope, next to "name all the presidents from 1965 onwards.")
Like this dude: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wan_Hu
In all seriousness, I think anyone who aspires to legacy isn't focusing on the shape that their life is currently in. Legacy's for dying loaded fogies to worry about, not people young enough to be writing their own bios for press releases.