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It's sad there is only one Randall Munroe because he is irreplaceable.
Glad he’s young! As long as he outlives me, it'll all be okay.
I'm just now realising he's much closer to my age than I thought, may there be many decades of xkcd to come
I should email him and ask if three days a week is infrequent enough to avoid burnout. That’s pretty often to maintain such an incredible level of quality. (Tom Scott had enough after 10 years.) But maybe since it’s his full-time gig, it’s optimal - he can spend most of the week reading cool stuff that gives him tons of good ideas and he actually wouldn’t want to publish any less frequently.
I mean Randall has been doing the comic since like 2004 or something so I feel like if he was going to burn out, he would have by now. At this point him burning out would just be him retiring.