Blog by Sumana Harihareswara, Changeset founder
As per the current weblog fad, I tried googling "Sumana…
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As per the current weblog fad, I tried googling "Sumana is" -- the custom is to then reprint a selection of the resulting sentences in a weblog entry. But -- since I hardly ever run into people named Sumana who aren't me -- I found the experience profoundly unsettling. I saw all these mentions of a Sumana in a narrative that had nothing to do with me and I started getting disoriented. "Wait, who am I? Is that really my name? That's someone else's name." I'm going to stop before I start calling other people "Sumana" or forgetting my own name.
