My career so far looks like a 1:87 scale, software-eaten, buggy, budget version of Stewart Brand’s. 🤔
I’m not alone. A bunch of us shady tech world D-list “network celebrities” are basically 3nd gen ersatz Stewart Brands. He’s TED; we’re TEDx’s. 🤣
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It’s fun to try and map my career to Brand’s to model where I might end up. All you other BrandX’s should try that too.
Stewart Brand was born in 1938, started Whole Earth Catalog in 1968 (age 30), the WELL in 1985 (age 47), GBN in 1987 (age 49), and Long Now in 1996 (age 58).
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Rough mapping:
I was born in 1974, started ribbonfarm in 2007 (age 33), refactor camp in 2012 (age 38), my consulting biz in 2011 (age 37).
I’ll turn 45 this year. Gives me 13 years to figure out a 1:87 scale, software eaten, buggy, budget version of long now. Clock and all.
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It always cracks me up to situate myself in some sort of downward, democratizing, ephemeralizing, cheapening trend. Moore’s law of scenestering: the number of BrandXs doubles every 18 months (power halves)
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I’m calling this the BrandX stack. You are a full-stack BrandX if you do all of this at > 1:87 Stewart scale. I’m almost there.
✅Self-published writing
✅Consulting
✅Small events/community
✅Marquee events
✅Fellowships and grants
❌Vague Nonprofit Activity
❌Conceptual Art
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In case you’re wondering about the 1:87 scale part...
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