Hodlbod's book can be a great start IMO

But people also have the tendency to over prepare. They want links to articles, videos and specific documentations BEFORE they get started, but in reality, just reading NIP-01 and using Amethyst/Damus for a while to understand the UX should be enough. LLMs, even without MPC servers and whatnot have enough info about nostr to build you small functional clients already

I assume yo are talking to a software engineer.

I would follow up with a question to clarify the areas of interests / experience and point the person to one of the open-source projects to get inspired.

The benefit is that most probably the person can view a live version of the app which is cool, and the repo would explain what NIPs, libraries and tools it uses.

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Some great resources to start with:

• https://github.com/nostr-protocol — official protocol docs + NIPs

• https://nostr-resources.com — curated list of tools, clients, dev resources

• https://github.com/fiatjaf/nips — NIP (Nostr Improvement Proposal) specs

• https://nostr.build — great for image hosting + developer inspiration

Read the NIPs

echo '["REQ","sub1",{"kinds":[1],"limit":3}]' | websocat wss://nostr.mom

If that simple command doesn't get them playing, then maybe they are not really that interested.