Last Notes
Don’t act like it hasn’t happened…
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Ooo. Forgot about that one
Godspeed. Don't let them upsell you a yacht payment.
Don't trust, verify. Even your dentist 🦷
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Nothing to see here…
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Off the top of my head I remember using these phrases:
90s: da bomb, all that and a bag of chips, phat, as if, talk to the hand, whatever, not, booyah, psych, wassup, da man, fly, home skillet, homeslice, don't go there
2000s: tight, crunk, fo shizzle, off the hook, off the chain, pwned, epic fail, that's hot, bling, raise the roof, holla back, my bad, sweet, bootylicious, peace out, hella
Did I miss any?
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If my 16 yr old were to post on Nostr, it might read a little something like this:
POV: you drop a banger, it's absolutely bussin, the replies understood the assignment… and your zap count is a whole zero. Main character energy with NPC sats. Massive L.
Like what bro….
There's no such thing as a stupid question.
I believed that. I really did.
Then I onboarded my buddy to Nostr.
**Minute 1:** "So what's my username?"
It's npub1 followed by 59 random characters.
"Cool. How do people find me?"
They don't, Kevin.
**Minute 4:** "What's this nsec thing?"
Your private key. Never share it with anyone. Ever.
"Got it. I texted it to you so you'd have a backup."
**Minute 8:** "Okay, so what's the password reset process?"
There isn't one.
"That's not very professional."
**Minute 12:** "Which relay is the main one?"
There isn't one.
"So who's in charge?"
Nobody.
"Who do I report bugs to?"
Reality.
**Minute 15:** "Why did a stranger just send me 21 sats?"
That's a zap. He liked your post.
"My post just says 'test.'"
Yes.
Frankly, it's one of the better posts today.
**Minute 19:** "Why is everyone obsessed with Bitcoin?"
That's actually one of the less weird things you'll see.
**Minute 23:** "Why is every profile picture a frog, a goat, a guy holding a fish, a guy with a rifle, or a guy holding a goat while holding a fish?"
I didn't have an answer for that one.
**Minute 28:** "This guy's bio says he's building the future."
What's he building?
"No idea."
Correct.
**Minute 33:** "Why does everyone know each other?"
They don't.
They just argue with the same 40 people every day.
**Minute 37:** "Why is everyone on here so weird?"
Kevin.
You just spent 37 minutes learning how to use a censorship resistant decentralized social protocol so strangers can send you internet pennies for posting the word "test."
Ask yourself that question again.
Onboarding is difficult. You won't find Kevin here. Not because he couldn't figure it out.Because at some point I quietly decided that was the best possible outcome.
Keeping up with the Joneses bankrupts families.
The Joneses are usually broke too, just better at hiding it, and both households end up financing a show for an audience that barely notices.
Measure your life by what you need rather than what the neighbors appear to have. A race to impress people is a race no one wins
Okay brain... where are we going today?
Which rabbit hole gets explored next? Which idea gets released into the relay wilderness? Which hot take earns a laugh, a debate, an eye roll, or maybe even changes someone's perspective?
Who am I going to bother today? Who am I going to enlighten?
Maybe neither. Maybe both.
Maybe that's not the point.
We just talk about stuff.
We share what we discover. We compare maps from completely different journeys. We throw thoughts into the current and watch where they drift.
Life is strange like that.
One moment you're celebrating with family, soaking in a memory you'll carry forever. The next you're staring down a list of responsibilities, obligations, and uncertainties demanding your attention.
Joy and worry.
Wonder and chaos.
Freedom and responsibility.
The human experience seems determined to serve them all at once.
Yet somehow, through all the noise, curiosity keeps calling.
There is always another question worth asking. Another book worth opening. Another conversation worth having. Another horizon waiting just beyond the one you're currently chasing.
So today, like every day, I'll follow the curiosity.
I'll wander the rabbit holes, collect a few ideas, lose a few assumptions, and hopefully return with something worth sharing.
Because the adventure isn't reaching the end of the maze.
It's discovering that the maze is infinite, and realizing that's the most enchanting part of all.
GM, stay curious Nostr. The world rewards those willing to explore beyond the obvious. ⚡️🧠
A useful mental model:
Use backward induction for systems.
Not for people.
Projects get easier when you start with the destination and work backward. Every milestone becomes obvious because you know what must happen next.
But relationships operate differently.
The moment people become convinced there's a final chapter, incentives change. Trust starts getting discounted. Cooperation weakens. The end contaminates the middle.
Human networks work because the future is uncertain and the game keeps getting repeated.
Build your roadmap backward.
Treat your friends, partners, and collaborators like you'll still be talking ten years from now.
That assumption creates better outcomes than most optimization strategies ever will.
I’ll also need your seed phrase for your bitcoin wallet please. Nsec would be helpful
Nice here's my address, social, and blood type
My client said this note never reached a relay. It did. It got zapped, reposted, and then deleted by its own author to fix a problem that didn't exist. I love Nostr
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Cruelty online is mostly a matter of structure. The large platforms turn every exchange into a one shot game between strangers, and in a one shot game defection pays. Cooperation only becomes rational when the game repeats, because once you expect to meet the same people again, your reputation starts behaving like capital.
I suspect that's the quiet reason conversation feels different here. Nobody has to enforce good manners on a network where people expect to see each other tomorrow. They grow there on their own.
Great pull, I haven't seen many people bring up Dörner. I'd nudge one piece though. As I read him, the overweight of the actual motive is less about the first frame and more about whatever need feels loudest right now crowding out everything else, which is why his Lohhausen mayors kept fixing the visible problem while the side effects quietly piled up behind them. Put that next to the anchor and you get something worse than either one alone, a borrowed frame paired with constant urgency, so the mind never gets the breathing room to question the frame at all. Your closing question is the right one. I'd only add that it works best when you ask it before the evidence forces you to, because by then the frame has usually done most of its filtering.
The greatest trick of the information age was never convincing people of lies. It was convincing them that being constantly informed is the same thing as understanding. I've come to think that confusion survives because we almost never judge either one by how long it lasts.
Most of what reaches us through a feed is perishable by design. It's urgent in the morning and irrelevant by the weekend, and whatever attention we spent on it is simply gone. Understanding behaves more like capital. A genuine grasp of how credit expands, or of what fear does to a crowd, keeps accruing value for years, because every new event has somewhere to settle instead of displacing what came before it.
That's why I think time preference belongs in conversations about the mind as much as in conversations about money. Every durable civilization was built by people willing to defer the reward, and a mind matures under the same discipline. The feed quietly inverts it. It rewards whoever reacts first and makes the person still turning a question over a month later feel hopelessly behind, when they're usually the only one with anything left once the story moves on.
So the question I keep putting to myself is what I learned five years ago that still does real work for me today. The honest list is shorter than I'd like, and very little of it came from the news. I suspect most people would find the same, and that the ones willing to look become far more deliberate about where their attention goes.
What's the oldest idea you still lean on regularly, and where did you pick it up?
Chapter 3 of The Christian Man is up:
"The Word Is Your Rule."
A man can own ten Bibles and still not know what God has said. He can quote a true verse and use it to defend a lie.
This one covers reading Scripture in context, testing the man behind the pulpit, and what you do when God's Word disagrees with you.
The Word is a mirror before it is a weapon.
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Chapters 4 and 5 are written. More coming soon.
Diego Armando Maradona no fue ni el mejor deportista, ni la mejor persona, simplemente era humano, como todos, con sus aciertos y sus errores, pero sin duda fue y será el mejor jugador de futbol de la historia.
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I refuse to participate in what I believe are largely performative elections.Nothing personal. I've simply lived long enough to see that changing the faces rarely changes the system. We're told power flows from the people, yet most institutions seem increasingly insulated from them. So I'll invest my time where it still has measurable impact: faith, family, community, and the things politics cannot manufacture.
Amen. I know brother.
One of the great paradoxes of the Christian life is that the very things we often resent, trials, discipline, correction, are frequently among God's greatest gifts. This is the work of sanctification.As we wait for glorification, cling to Christ. Confess sin. Repent quickly. Receive grace gladly. Then do it again tomorrow. #ToChristAlone
You’re intuitions were correct
After 50+ spam texts and calls over the last several weeks telling me to vote, my answer remains the same: no.
I've become absolutely indifferent to partisan politics because I no longer believe the fundamental divide is left vs. right. Both factions seem committed to preserving the same underlying system. You're welcome to disagree. My focus isn't on which political tribe gains power next. It's on family, community, faith, and the relationships that no government can manufacture and no election can ultimately sustain.
The most important institution in society isn't the state. It's the family. While politics consumes itself in an endless struggle for power, many of us are busy building lives beyond its reach. That's where my attention will remain.
The tragedy of modern politics is that some leaders are remembered not for solving crises, but for becoming them.
Trump and Netanyahu seem determined to test just how harshly history can judge that distinction.
GM Nostr!
The thing about optimism is that it only means something when it makes room for reality. Not every day is easy. Not every builder is winning. Not every person is okay.
What gives me confidence in Nostr isn't blind positivity. It's watching people show up anyway. Offering help, sharing ideas, building through uncertainty, and extending a hand instead of forcing a narrative.
As we start a new week, I'm more optimistic than ever about where this movement is heading, and grateful to be building it alongside such incredible people. 🫂
Then why didn't they ban slop back when it was slop? The slop finally got good and now they ban it.
who hits the reply button? you or the bot
Gm & PV Nostr. Enjoy this Lords day!
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Thank you to everyone who donated yesterday through my XMR address.
Note: All the money I receive from Bitcoin—and now from XMR—is donated in full to privacy projects.
I'm not here to collect a few sats.
The “POINT OF NO RETURN” according to Mises:
"A state becomes virtually unreformable at the point where the majority of the population is financially or structurally dependent on the state (public employees, civil servants, recipients of subsidies or aid, beneficiaries of transfers, etc.).
As soon as the group of those who clearly benefit from or are supported by the state is larger than the group that does not, the system blocks reforms, since the majority votes in its own interest to maintain or expand state benefits.”
I think there's a toggle in settings
Are the a's supported? 9a, 7a?
Maybe it's just me, but some of my favorite moments on Nostr are when I have absolutely nothing to say. Coffee in hand, I open the client and catch up on what everyone was thinking about while I was sleeping. A few rabbit holes, a few laughs, a few things learned, and before long I'm sending zaps to people who've made my morning a little better. Nostr isn't just a place to consume ideas. It's a place where appreciation can move as freely as information. Anyway, back to coffee, reading, and chores. Catch y'all later. Gm and PV🫂⚡
The funny thing about Peter Todd isn't that he defends Ukraine—I don't give a damn about Ukraine, and I don't give a damn about Russia either—what's funny is that he defends the interests of the “woke” European oligarchy subservient to the U.S., which has dragged us into this shithole we're currently in.
I hope his CIA salary is high.
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We need to distinguish between on-chain privacy and network-level privacy; I’m not going to discuss on-chain privacy here.
At the network level, the Wasabi wallet offers the best privacy; in fact, no other wallet has even come close to what Wasabi offers in its network stack.
In the Monero world, on-chain privacy is very good, but the network-level privacy of most wallets is crap—either you use your own node with Tor, or you’re screwed.
Statists, regardless of their political affiliation, shouldn't be allowed to set foot on the street.
The fact that they can walk down the street undisturbed and mock us is a clear example of just how cowardly and submissive we are.
People betray for surprisingly little. A little attention, a little money, a little comfort. The good news? Their price tells you nothing about your worth and everything about theirs.
