piece dated 2011

I’ve recently come to believe all these millennial tech heroes are washed now. All the great stuff is a decade old. All the new stuff you share out of respect and nostalgia for the old stuff

I have a burgeoning thesis that it’s impossible to think good thoughts when you’re on top

Your money and/or power isolate you too much, and you’re no longer able to relate to a normal person or speak truth to power

The Farcaster formerly known as Kchamp. Books, beats, bodybuilding, bright ideas and beautiful things.

katherinechampagne.com

i think about this a lot (as someone who is not exceptionally wealth or powerful), many of my best takes were blog posts/tweets from 10+ years ago.

am i out of juice now? or is it going to take me another 10 years to appreciate some of what i'm spewing today?

or maybe i need to move on and do whatever olds do

One of my fav takes from 10 years ago, just stumbled on this second pairing. They go nicely together.
https://x.com/shazow/status/567797705570836480
https://x.com/shazow/status/792031568915206144

A doodler and computerer. I like permissive/permissionless open source, smart contracts, p2p systems, room-scale VR, and NixOS.

shazow.net

Currently: WhatsABI

relatedly: https://warpcast.com/shazow.eth/0x8d633f93