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[[A man is leaning against his window, complaining at a bystander outside.]]
Complainer: ARGH! I HATE the modern world!
Complainer: I feel like I was born in the wrong era!

Bystander: You were born too late? Or too early?
Complainer: I wish I had been born 100 YEARS FROM NOW!

Bystander: So you could experience the future!
Complainer: So I could LOOK BACK to TODAY with the rose-tinted vision of nostalgia!
Complainer: If I’m to be STUCK here, I want to figure out how to consider it a GOLDEN AGE.

Bystander: So you’d rather live in a future you’d be DISSATISFIED WITH ENOUGH to look back at NOW and say
Bystander: “Everything was better, back when I wished I lived in what is now the present”
Complainer: Sure, you put enough knots in that logic, it’ll fly a sail

{{header: remembering at WONDERMARK.COM}}
{{alt-text: I want to live during a golden age of SOMETHING. Even if it’s just a golden age of labeling eras as golden ages.}}

#1048; Looking Forward to Looking Back transcribed by in

[[A man is leaning against his window, complaining at a bystander outside.]]
Complainer: ARGH! I HATE the modern world!
Complainer: I feel like I was born in the wrong era!

Bystander: You were born too late? Or too early?
Complainer: I wish I had been born 100 YEARS FROM NOW!

Bystander: So you could experience the future!
Complainer: So I could LOOK BACK to TODAY with the rose-tinted vision of nostalgia!
Complainer: If I’m to be STUCK here, I want to figure out how to consider it a GOLDEN AGE.

Bystander: So you’d rather live in a future you’d be DISSATISFIED WITH ENOUGH to look back at NOW and say
Bystander: “Everything was better, back when I wished I lived in what is now the present”
Complainer: Sure, you put enough knots in that logic, it’ll fly a sail

{{header: remembering at WONDERMARK.COM}}
{{alt-text: I want to live during a golden age of SOMETHING. Even if it’s just a golden age of labeling eras as golden ages.}}

#1048; Looking Forward to Looking Back transcribed by in

[[A man is leaning against his window, complaining at a bystander outside.]]
Complainer: ARGH! I HATE the modern world!
Complainer: I feel like I was born in the wrong era!

Bystander: You were born too late? Or too early?
Complainer: I wish I had been born 100 YEARS FROM NOW!

Bystander: So you could experience the future!
Complainer: So I could LOOK BACK to TODAY with the rose-tinted vision of nostalgia!
Complainer: If I'm to be STUCK here, I want to figure out how to consider it a GOLDEN AGE.

Bystander: So you'd rather live in a future you'd be DISSATISFIED WITH ENOUGH to look back at NOW and say
Bystander: "Everything was better, back when I wished I lived in what is now the present"
Complainer: Sure, you put enough knots in that logic, it'll fly a sail

{{header: remembering at WONDERMARK.COM}}
{{alt-text: I want to live during a golden age of SOMETHING. Even if it's just a golden age of labeling eras as golden ages.}}

I want to live during a golden age of SOMETHING. Even if it's just a golden age of labeling eras as golden ages.

#1048; Looking Forward to Looking Back

  — July 22nd, 2014

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Applications open for Genius Northwest – an IRL gaming competition

May 8, 2026 by David Malki !

Last year, I participated in Genius Northwest, a gaming competition inspired by the Korean gameshow The Genius and its ilk.

It’s a reality show without the cameras — a 3-day, all-inclusive weekend retreat structured around a series of challenges and puzzles, in which personalities and dealmaking matter as much as playing games.

It’s truly a remarkable thing. I came in dead last in the competition, but I still had a great time participating.

The event is held annually in the Pacific Northwest (hence the name) and applications are now open to participate in the 2026 competition!

Learn more — and apply — at GeniusNW.com.


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