I quite like this meme from Megan McArdle, encouraging folks to go back and see what the first thing they purchased on Amazon.com was. In my case, it 2003, and the order was the Midwest Academy's
Organizing for Social Change and Saul Alinsky's
Rules for Radicals. All of is which to say I had a kind of hippietastic freshman year of college. And just to prove how a) broke, and b) technically un-savvy I was back in the day, I'll confess that my second order, several months later, was for
this.