Caught up with nostr:npub1guh5grefa7vkay4ps6udxg8lrqxg2kgr3qh9n4gduxut64nfxq0q9y6hjy and we covered BIP 21Q, Pubky, digital identity and a lot more, check it out!
(The headline is clickbait, this is not a finance interview, we just did some speculating about what the big sacrifice could be this cycle!)
John, as a fellow John, let me say I love you representing our name on various rips. I treasure your sincere disagreeablness. Have you ever thought of spending more time with less specialized people? I think you might have forgotten how smart you are relative to most people and I think that gets in the way of your thoughtfullness reaching a wider audience. Maybe you don't give a shit, but I think you do and want to be received widely since you have so much to offer. There is absolutely no reason why you should take my word for it, but it's a thought I had listening to this pod and finding myself having to rewind a few times to fully grok what you're saying. I have the same problem listening to Eric Weinstein. Sometime's he's just full of shit but othertimes he starts his thought too many steps ahead -- a function of what I've heard Steven Pinker refer to as the "curse of knowledge". FWIW, God bless you and thanks for your hard work.
The people I actually spend time with are my family and my team. I feel blessed to have the opportunity that Tether and Fulgur Ventures have provided to us to build a new vision for digital society. I'm not sure what more I could ask for.
Sure, it'd be nice to not be so misunderstood by so many of my peers, but I never claimed to be amazing at persuasion. Being myself is the only thing that has never failed me, so things are what they are. I am always happy to see things improve, but I can't think of everything and improving at some things is more rewarding than others.
Specifically, I do think Marty and I jumped into some topics without proper setups, but the conversation was unstructured, so instead you got something more natural, I guess? haha, i dunno, we did a thing, I hope some people get something from it.
I appreciate your response and my comment was playfully tongue in cheek only to emphasize that I recognize you have so much to contribute. Personally my job requires me to persuade and so when I listen to other people I’m always thinking “how could they have said that differently to penetrate more brains (and hearts)”. But I love that you put yourself out there and want to underscore the value of your unabashed disagreeableness. This is not a negative from my perspective.
Great episode, loved the in-depth discussion and push back on general podcast narratives. 🫡
