I didn't see the "(2017)" when reading this and wasn't aware of the news at the time, so at the end I wondered about how things concluded. Unfortunately Matt p

I didn't see the "(2017)" when reading this and wasn't aware of the news at the time, so at the end I wondered about how things concluded. Unfortunately Matt passed in 2017 [1] [2] and the company reportedly acquired by Uber in 2019 [3] [4]. My take-away from this is to not waste the precious time we may or may not have, to not have regrets, to have my friends and family know how much they mean to me. A side note: It's a shame that the record of his death by his company only exists through a web archive link. It feels like the passing of a person should be more permanently recorded. It's a single marker that says "this person existed and they mattered". Of course this means a lot to those who knew him directly, but it also means a lot to those in the future trying to understand their family history or the history of our society. For example, the people who were killed during the witch trials - although their deaths were tragic, at least there is some recording of the injustice done against them [5]. [1] https://www.geekwire.com/2017/mighty-ai-co-founder-matt-bencke-dies-45-battle-pancreatic-cancer/ https://www.geekwire.com/2017/mighty-ai-co-founder-matt-benc... [2] https://web.archive.org/web/20171020053826/https://mty.ai/blog/in-our-hearts-always/ https://web.archive.org/web/20171020053826/https://mty.ai/bl... [3] https://mty.ai/ https://mty.ai/ [4] https://www.geekwire.com/2019/uber-acquires-seattle-startup-mighty-ai-fuel-push-self-driving-cars/ https://www.geekwire.com/2019/uber-acquires-seattle-startup-... [5] http://www.witchtrials.co.uk/ http://www.witchtrials.co.uk/