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What you leave when you can no longer correct the record.
means Something handed down from the past — money, property, reputation, or influence passed from those who came before to those who follow.
from From Latin 'legare,' to bequeath or appoint by will (the same root that gives us 'legate' and 'delegate'), via Medieval Latin 'legatia' and Old French 'legacie.' In its earliest English sense, a legacy was quite literal — a gift left to you in someone's will. Only later did it widen to mean anything inherited, including the messier, unbankable things like consequences and reputations.
- old french
- From legatus, an envoy sent with authority
- tech debt
- Coders curse legacy code daily worldwide
- posthumous edit
- Reputations get rewritten long after death
- living kind
- Best legacies are people, not monuments
steve jobs at apple — transformed computing from 1976-2011, revolutionized 6 industries (computers, animated movies, music, phones, tablets, retail)
roman aqueducts — built 2,000 years ago, 11 major systems still supply water to rome and other european cities today
beethoven's 9th symphony — composed 1824, adopted as eu anthem, performed at fall of berlin wall 1989, still defines classical music
usain bolt's 100m record — 9.58 seconds set in 2009, remains unbroken and reshaped sprinting biomechanics worldwide