"Quitting the Internet would imply he is going off the grid. Doubtful. Unless he is headed to a cabin in the badlands... if so, good for him. Woodshedding isn't a bad thing per se. I don't know much about this Jakob guy but my guess is that might be why I'm grasping to understand why you use the term "childish" and "grow up". Perhaps if you had developed that a bit more I'd get it -- but I don't. By contrast, I've been reading your posts for a while and I also have to agree with some of the comments here. Relegating this farewell to a "childish" maneuver is very pot kettle plonk of you. Please don't stop writing though ;-) There are lots of ways to explain going underground via sudden departure vs. giving into a lack of updates (Carl Icahn blog frequency). So, his farewell isn't a terribly uncommon thing in any of a variety of mediums. Given what I've been able to gleen in sparse reading about his accomplishments, this is actually a very adult way to do it. Disclosure: I'm 36, not a..." - Jay Cuthrell

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