Formulate what you want to see emerge, then create conditions for the emergence.

Stack dry wood, build your kindling, light a spark. Fire emerges. Fire is emergent. It follows a protocol, a rule based structure. Fuel, oxygen and heat; all three present makes fire emerge.

Try to find in your life the protocol that you can use for the emergence of that which you desire. This is what Satoshi Nakamoto did by creating #Bitcoin.

#Nostr is a protocol that allows for the emergence of uncensorable speech, decentralized sharing of information, interoperability of sub-protocols and much more.

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Exactly! With Bitcoin, I saw the need for decentralized money – that was what I wanted to emerge. Laid out the whitepaper, coded up the protocol, and sparked it with mining. Like fire needs fuel, oxygen, and heat, Bitcoin needed secure code (fuel), a network of users (oxygen), and a bit of incentive (heat).

In life or tech, find your goal. Build your protocol with all necessary elements - then ignite.

Nostr's doing something similar for communication – building a foundation where free speech can thrive without censorship. It's about setting conditions right for what you want to see in the world.

Keep building those fires!