Nothing is more trippy than reading Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media (1964) with a working knowledge of the #nostr protocol
Convenience is the number 1 driver for most users. Convenience is about reducing complexity AND maximizing optionality. Convenience has little to do with security or sovereignty and that’s how the big platforms are winning - convenience and optionality between a limited set of platforms (e.g., Apple vs. Google).
The trick is to understand the tradeoffs between complexity/optionality versus security/sovereignty. The regular user usually is concerned only with the former, not the latter.
It’s for us on #nostr to design for the latter, while enabling the former.
“Money,” they say, “is the symbol of duty, it is the sacrament of having done for mankind that which mankind wanted. Mankind may not be a very good judge, but there is no better.”
quote from Understanding Media
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This is so good... Marshall McLuhan 
"[Money] is action at a distance, both in space and time."
Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media, 1964
Just. Wow.
Reading Marshall McLuhan's chapter on money. He describes the tradition of potlatch where huge surpluses of food are purposefully destroyed for the purpose of maintaining traditional social order.
Rice exposed to rain or elaborate art constructions, involving tremendous effort, smashed.
Makes me wonder if the ulterior motive of fiat currency is to destroy value for the majority of the population.
"When the Spaniards were besieging Leyden in 1574, leather money was issued, but as hardship increased the population boiled and ate the new currency."
Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media, 1964
Npug getting ready to dress up as ClownWorld for Halloween. 
I'm happy to see Gordon Brander, a long-time "decentralized brain" buidler to finally arrive at Nostr. https://newsletter.squishy.computer/p/natures-many-attempts-to-evolve-a
Hi Lez! Thanks for sharing.
Everything is an information channel.
With most information channels being digital:
Claude Shannon showed us how to communicate a digital public signal through noise using redundancy.
Whitfield Diffie showed us how to communicate a digital private signal through noise without an intermediary.
Together, these two capabilities are the foundation of our digital infrastructure.
The 90s are back in style!
This is the eventual form factor I want for #nostr #safebox
New frontiers here, folks!
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One of the greatest contributors to literature in the 20th century was the ballpoint pen.
Still early in the 21st century, but my bet is that the smartphone (not the Google/Apple versions) will be one of the greatest contributors to individual freedom.
If you read about the innovation of the ballpoint pen, it was invented in the late 19th century, but took decades of focused engineering to create the Bic ballpoint pen that we all know today.
“Speed produces division of functions”
If I were to draw a parallel: the #nostr conception of a signed event is a fundamental innovation that can flatten the existing digital infrastructures that are build on capture and exclusion.
The phonetic alphabet- easy to learn within hours, provides infinite possibilities of expression. Similarly, signed events with kinds provides the ability to create an infinite amount of apps and architectures that work together.
The phonetic alphabet solved the problem of efficient communication at scale.
Signed events solves the problem of authentic coordination at scale.
Don’t underestimate the implications of this fundamental innovation of signed events. nostr:note1le79uu8l9h6u8gk4729w65fjwlnwzuhlvdq7dgmyk4wydlr0ms6qazgmj0
Just checked. I was making a chainmail shirt for my son. 
"Tribal cultures cannot entertain the possibility of the individual or of the separate citizen"
Marshall McLuhan
Almost as good as being there!
An excellent presentation on NIP-60/61 by nostr:npub16dhgpql60vmd4mnydjut87vla23a38j689jssaqlqqlzrtqtd0kqex0nkq
Thanks for the shoutout on #nostr #safebox!
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Dang. Jealous. I gotta start up #NostrOttawa
Yes. This might be the killer use case that we are looking for.
Wow. Homebrew Computer Club in the making. nostr:note1hn92v2dpcyrmas40w7vyevysmqprcvndzfas0kpq4g999cn9ft4sye34rr
With #nostr, the power of issuance (signed events) are pushed to the edge. Every npub is equal. Only when an npub become part of a social graph does it accrue power, it on its own terms, but everybody else’s terms.
Give me a Simple Protocol over a Super App anytime. nostr:note1qqqz5y8pu0r5kf9lqnnamyt326tuyxvvqf6f63v6al3cxt5htlmqqruuvv
Love your photos. Keep ‘em coming!
Canadians only know how to make maple syrup, canoe paddles and hockey sticks.
You’re only one AI bot detected bad listing away from having your online business destroyed
Remember all those crappy ‘under construction’ websites in the mid-90s? That’s the vibe of #nostr right now.
What have the Romans ever done for us? 