using obsidian the last few days.
it started me thinking about a new web paradigm. something that combines rich markdown rendering, the pre facebook era personal homepage, and nostr.
the problem with “new” is that many times it isn’t. It’s just one step away from what already was, and so keeps being defined by what was. Example: the standard width of train tracks can be traced back, iteration by iteration, to the width of two Roman horses asses.
Sometimes there's no need to change a good thing. Toilet paper keeps rolling on. 🤷♂️
You can stay here. It’s your right.
😂 I just meant that it's ok if you're able to see lineage of a thing. Sometimes good designs just work.
Completely unrelated, I was joking about Rome with a buddy recently. We were looking at art front he roman era and really not much has changed in our living habits and the designs of our luxury items. All the way from a couch with pillows to the chamber pot.
We still have chamber pots, we've just engineered them to dump themselves now. A few tweaks, and way better. But it's still kind of a chamber pot.
I’ve been looking too. There are things about Rome that this time can’t touch. In fact in every Empire there are things they did that we do worse. Greece, Persia, Babylon…
My chamber pot uses wood chips.
Like Old Man Kincaid said in Skyfall, “When all else fails, sometimes the old ways are the best
