Are We Harold Bloom? (opens in new tab)

A human wrote this essay. Proof of work. Harold Bloom was a professor at Yale University and famous author and literary critic: think Roger Ebert but for books. Many considered him a prick and colleagues often bristled at him. This professor’s in my noggin’ lately, because I happen to participate in an online community, Lobsters, which I find bursting at the seams with Harold Blooms. (Except we’re software engineers, generally not book authors.