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I'm having a real Baader-Meinhof moment.

When I first decided to call my newsletter the muse-letter I just thought it was a clever play on words. I seem to recall doing a cursory search and not finding anything. Cool, I thought, I'm a genius! 😊

After I came across the news that Google's Area 120 was launching a newsletter service called Museletter, I now find things called this all over the place. Richard Heinberg's Museletter, for example, even goes back to 1992!

It's likely just a mix of frequency illusion mixed with cognitive bias but it always feels weird when that kind of thing happens.

It's sad to see that Sir Clive Sinclair has passed. My first computer, when I was 11, was a Sinclair ZX81, followed by a Sinclair Spectrum. I started learning how to program in BASIC on those machines and spent many an hour lost in classic games like Manic Miner, Jet Set Willy, Tir Na Nog and Lords of Midnight. I can honestly say, without those machines, I wouldn't have gotten into computers in the way I did and life could have been very different. So here's to you Sir Clive, may you rest in peace.