2020, here you are.
I hope you’re all well. It’s been a long, long time, but as usual, life happens.
If you don’t remember, or are new since the last time I wrote, this is Weightshifting, a personal newsletter written by yours truly, Naz Hamid. You can unsubscribe at the bottom if you like.
Still here? Awesome. Thank you.
I’ve been sitting on this new version of nazhamid.com for a year and a half. I work on it in fits and spurts. I question why I have this site or why I might make it public.
At the end of last year, I had a moment of clarity where a whole idea, spurred on by some clients and work I was doing, brought about much resolve. I suddenly had a new thing coupled with a recent thing that clarified how and why I work with the people I do, and more importantly HOW I bring value.
I call it Preflight. I whipped together much of the idea quickly during the day I had the idea (please picture a literal lightbulb lighting up) and knew what I had to do. So I’ll be doing it. It’ll probably launch at the end of Q1. I’m excited.
Back to nazhamid.com. I wrote this out:
And between two other things I’ve been wanting to do (videos/reviews and a revival of The Well Worn if you remember that briefly as well as me making music again), I’m halting work on the site. It may retain the aforementioned photography and travel aspect, but that too may morph into video.
So: while it’s hidden away, you get a little peek at what could have been, and may still be albeit in a reduced form. It’s a work-in-progress, so things are half-written, half-built, but some bones there. I figure sharing with you would be fun. A small group of people who might appreciate it.
http://nazhamid.netlify.com
There’s not enough time in a day or at my age, time to be free, time to be present, and time to just deliberately think.
I am probably most disassociated from the feelings of competition and envy and admiration for my friends, peers, and colleagues as I ever have been and that feels good. I mostly know who I am and what I’m doing and for whom. That helps detangle so much.
My wardrobe in recent years has gone back to minimal, I have purged a lot. I ride only one bike now. I have let my hair grow long. I remember as a teenager who I wanted to be when I grew up, and I could never have predicted it, but in some ways, I’m my truer self than I have been in a while.
Be present. Be kind. Be thankful.
Hard work and hard living, talk soon. Say hi.
Naz.