Stealing and holidays
Maybe I'm just a sentimental fool who spent too much of his 20s trying to decipher NTK, but I very much like Danny O'Brien's framing of how this stuff feels right now.
I don’t think you get power by asking for it, and only rarely get it by demanding it. In the world of technological empowerment, you get it by stealing it. And controversially, I think you can steal something, and turn it to your own uses, even if you’re Paying The (or Some) Man for it. All you need to do is to run and use it quicker and faster than those who are slowly realising that this thing that they made, it is not just for them.
And those moments always felt like holidays. Those holidays where you would take a pile of books and read through them all, or carefully poke your new toy until you could get it to do things, or the days when you sat with a guitar or a synthesiser and just played and played and played until you knew what it, and you, together were capable of.
I've been thinking of it as 'shit, this is the gap - hard monetisation comes soon but right now it seems like we can... do stuff' but stealing and holidays, that's better.