Thinking from first principles is hard. Not the logic, but the conclusions. If they're against the main narrative, you are going to be called a conspiracy theorist or weirdo or wack job. The social isolation and peer disapproval is the hardest part.

This is where you need to let go of that desire to fit in and be well thought of by the normies. It's hard work, but worth it for the intellectual freedom.

ARE THERE ANY SOCIAL NOSTR CLIENTS WITH AN INTEGRATED CASHU WALLET YET?

I noticed that most of the time it's those who don't work on anything that keep telling other people what they should be working on instead.

so how many people am i actually reaching by posting? 😂

oh, interesting. so it was similar to the Golden Spike on the Transcontinental railroad across the US in Utah

what is the Last Spike

Many of the client #devs would be better analysts/designers/testers/sysadmins than "devs", but clout on here only goes to devs, so we're ending up with a gazillion half-finished, buggy projects nobody uses, and that get quickly abandoned, and the better stuff doesn't get enough traffic because everyone who could provide actionable feedback is off tinkering. There's almost nobody to do the technical stuff that isn't as glamorous but is the difference between being permanently stuck in scriptkiddie hell or having production-ready systems.

More appreciation for non-dev roles, please. For starters, stop asking people "... and what did you build?", like nobody has a right to speak on development topics unless they've hacked together some bullshit microblogger nobody will ever use. That isn't even proof that they could pass CompSci 101, ffs.

/rant

This is actually a really amazing time to be alive because people are changing the world by just doing stuff. What Germans call "konkludentes Handeln" ("implied in fact"), where you end up becoming the Person Who Does This Thing by just getting up and doing it.

I mean, we joke about #NostrElites, but the actual Nostr Elites are the people who just, at some point, started doing stuff that needed to get done because they looked around and noticed nobody else was doing it. They put their hand up and said, "Me. Umm... yeah. I could probably do that."

And then they did it.

I stand by my statement