I’ve been hunting through terabytes of historical files for a project at work for the past month, trying to dig any kind of footage or photos I can use to tell the stories of three of our biggest initiatives. I’ve got a legacy Mac Pro tower under my desk here with the majority of those files, and as I dig deeper into the folders I’ve found stuff that was hiding from me for years. I opened up one file the other day and was shocked to see the guy looking back at me:

This dates back to January 2016, when I had more hair on my head and was experimenting with a full beard. We were doing some tests for a video series so there’s about two minutes of me looking into camera while we adjusted for light and focus. In retrospect I’m glad I ditched those glasses; they were too angular for my face and accentuated my crooked nose.