Andrej Karpathy is on bearblog
This morning I was scrolling on the Discover page of bearblog, like I usually do. I saw a post titled "the append-and-review note". I thought it was pretty interesting, so after reading it, I clicked on the home tab.
This is the first time I stumbled across a blog post by someone I know. My first instinct was that this was someone faking to be him; I went on his own page and it just turns out, he very recently moved to Bear.
I wasn't sure how to feel about this. I've read many of his blogs before he was on Bear blog, and I found them very interesting. On one hand, I'm happy that accomplished individuals like him started using Bear. I (secretly) considered it a testimony that I made the right decision.
On the other hand, I'm worried that this would attract too much attention from the public. Once people start visiting his home page, would they move to Bear also? But I'm used to Bear as it is now: for me, bearblog is a tiny community of interesting people. I enjoy reading posts by people that I don't know, and reading more of their posts if I liked the first one. I enjoy being able to open the Most recent tab when I'm bored, and read blogs that are not be trending - sometimes I wonder why some of them are not trending. I enjoy seeing people from different places of the world finding my blog from the Most recent tab and reading about my thoughts and what I have to share.
Shouldn't I be happy that the bear community is growing? I don't know. Of course I would love to see more people join and write and read. But I am also afraid of change. What if bear becomes so popular that when I open the Most recent tab, there are way to many posts to digest? What if for that reason, people stop discovering my posts?
I don't know what to think, but for now, I'm just going to enjoy Bear as it is. I trust that it will only move in better directions.