This past year I read more books than any year prior, and I'm stoked. As a bit of background, my early 20’s were a serious dry-spell of leisure reading. For some reason, after school I just couldn’t get into a book no matter how much I tried. It probably had something to do with being sucked into other hobbies and a general shortage of time to do it all, but also was just pure laziness. There were of course odd times where I read, but they were never sustained periods, rather just short bursts of interest in a single book.

Not so long ago we relied almost entirely on phone numbers to identify and communicate with people. Conceptually, an email address and phone number share similarities: they identify you and they enable communication. As email addresses gained popularity, phone numbers didn't vanish; rather, they evolved, taking on new utility, like being used alongside email addresses for two-factor authentication (2FA).