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My diary writing continued, but it also petered out after I got together with my now-husband back in 2001. My diary thrived on drama, and a happy, settled relationship is not very dramatic.

Then, my colleague Lloyd Lee and I tested Tesla FSD against Waymo in San Francisco on May 1. You can read all about that here. TLDR: We ran a red light while in my Tesla's FSD mode.

My face immediately dropped and asked her if she read my diary. Her response was “it looked just like my notebook I picked it up on a random page, read that sentence, and closed it”.

At 23-years-old, this woman was horrified to learn that her mum had read her diary. Unsurprisingly, the mum learnt something she wishes she hadn’t: that her daughter has a pretty active sex life.

Reading about their inner lives helps me to make sense of my own. Woolf was a sporadic diary keeper who did not intend for her personal writing to be published.