kottke.org 是互联网上最知名的博客之一，今年3月，它25岁了，作者在这篇文章里回忆他在20周年时写的一段话，让我有同感：
Some of my older posts are genuinely cringeworthy to read now: poorly written, cluelessly privileged, and even mean spirited. I'm ashamed to have written some of them.
But had I not written all those posts, good and bad, I wouldn't be who I am today, which, hopefully, is a somewhat wiser person vectoring towards a better version of himself.
现在回读我以前的一些帖子真的让我感到非常尴尬：写得很糟糕，对自己的特权一无所知，甚至还带有恶意。我为自己写过这些文章而感到羞愧。
但是，如果我没有写下所有这些文章，好的和不好的，我现在就不会成为我现在的我，也就是一个希望自己能朝着更好的版本前进的、稍微有些智慧的人。