Letter from the Editor – Black Nerd Problems: Year One

If I had my druthers about me, the idea to create Black Nerd Problems would have begun at least two months earlier at least, allowing for a process that led us launching on March 15th instead of May. That way I could say that every anniversary for the site landed on the “Ides of March,” where in my elaborate planning would draw half smiles and smirks from myself and a few college professors. That is probably the largest on a list of very few regrets I have connected to Black Nerd Problems over the last year. In fact, maybe it’s the only regret, as anything else I have learned over the last year has been a resolvable issue where the only thing lost, was time. At this point, I can live with that. Now having no real regrets about the site doesn’t mean we have been perfect. I know that we haven’t been perfect and I most certainly haven’t been either. There isn’t a week that goes by that I don’t say to Omar: gotdamn, we missed a great opportunity there. Sometimes it’s just resources. Everybody on staff is a full-time student or employee somewhere, so as an editor I always want us to produce more content. As an objective fan of the site, I’m sometimes amazed at the amount of content we produce. I look at us like a video game developer that has all kinds of ambitious plans and ideas that are so far ahead of the consoles they develop for. The truly great developers milk as much out of the resources they have, but are far enough ahead of the curve where they already know what they wil…