I have a hypothesis that one of the biggest commonalities among current Nostr users is the ability to find signal and find others who are also good at finding signal.

It may be the most powerful skill because nobody, not you or me, can know about or be right about everything. Some of my favorite people have glaring holes in the models, especially if it’s in an area that’s outside of their wheelhouses. But I noticed that each of them is good at identifying people who also find signal and then continue to learn from them.

You probably weren’t browsing developer sites and stumbled upon the Nostr code, kudos if you did. No, you heard a podcast or heard from someone on Twitter or IRL about Nostr and decided that it seemed like signal. Now here you are, with other people who did the same thing, all compounding.

For that reason, I’m convinced that Nostr is currently the highest signal, fieriest crucible for ideas anywhere, either on the internet or in meatspace.