I wonder if she was able to find his Reddit and Hacker News posts. He went under the handle "thebadplus". Nothing particularly interesting under either, though.

I wonder if she was able to find his Reddit and Hacker News posts. He went under the handle "thebadplus". Nothing particularly interesting under either, though. Moving essay, and I feel for her loss. It does leave me thinking of him as an enigma, though, and I can't help but wonder why. Yes, he was an enigma to her by the time he died. But she interviewed lots of people who were active in his life when he died and has pretty much nothing to relay on from them. Did they really have no opinions of him? Did he leave no records or discussions of why, exactly, he wanted limb lengthening surgery? And he wrote and published an essay about her family, presumably discussing his feelings about her, but she didn't feel fit to link it? While at the same time thought it was worth the space to dig up an ancient email of his that references another website, from which she feels the need to quote an unrelated passage? This essay seems much more interested in pigeonholing his tragic death into a rubric of "victim of hateful white supremacist MRA thought" instead of allowing him his own voice. She should consider, perhaps, that responsibility for his death might fall on broader social trends instead of relying on simplistic explanations pointing to a maligned sect which it's unclear he even adhered to when he died.