I'm souring on reading papers. 

For example, "Keeping CALM" is a really well written paper that introduces a new concept (monotonicity). But what can you actually do with this in terms of designing or evaluating a system like Farcaster or Ethereum?

Not much - it's just a well articulated restatement of some core distributed systems consistency principles that we've known for a while. 

Most CS papers don't really seem to do "Science" anymore - there are a few important ones, but the vast majority are publications for the sake of publications.

I'm souring on reading papers. 

For example, "Keeping CALM" is a really well written paper that introduces a new concept (monotonicity). But what can you actually do with this in terms of designing or evaluating a system like Farcaster or Ethereum?

Not much - it's just a well articulated restatement of some core distributed systems consistency principles that we've known for a while. 

Most CS papers don't really seem to do "Science" anymore - there are a few important ones, but the vast majority are publications for the sake of publications. 

https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.01930

Technowatermelon. Elder Millenial. Building Farcaster. 

nf.td/varun

> the vast majority are publications for the sake of publications

consequences of "publish or perish" in academia (and creating on social) gotta keep putting out content, even when its not good