The world is always filled with people trying to learn how to impose some amount of order upon their disorderly lives. People look up to him, or discovered him through his blog when he was actively writing it (including yours truly) and either learned something from it or didn’t. At the very least, Marc Andreeson wasn’t just some random dude in 2007 that made a habit of posting Lifehacker-esque blog entries and if he had posted a guide to rebuilding a small-block Chevy 350 I would have skipped over it that day in NetNewsWire.