Thank you, Jonathan, happy new year to you too! I think when you’re passionate about life, quiet consistency comes naturally =) Last year brought a lot of growth and peace, it wasn’t easy but it was worth every bit. I’m looking forward to this year and to more adventures. PS loving the guitar. Any expert tips?
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year nostr:nprofile1qyvhwumn8ghj76rzwghxxmmjv93kcefwwdhkx6tpdshszrnhwden5te0dehhxtnvdakz7qpqjlrs53pkdfjnts29kveljul2sm0actt6n8dxrrzqcersttvcuv3qy09qsr ! Wishing you and your family lots of love and a wonderful year ahead
I try to pop in now and then, but wow, you’ve had a complete makeover! =) Have a great one Kat, with lots of good food and nature!
Happy New Year everybody ❤️
Looking back, 2025 was a year of laying the groundwork for me. It was so far from any breakthrough, let alone glamorous, and so far from any outcomes. But it was a necessary one. Over the years, I’ve learnt that hustle works best with alignment, and simplicity ties it all together.
In recent times I’ve come to understand courage more deeply.
For me, inward courage has looked like staying present with the truth, even when it’s uncomfortable. It’s been a form of emotional self-leadership.
Outward courage hasn’t meant confrontation. More often, it’s been alignment between what I value and how I act, sometimes through non-participation.
Cognitive courage has been letting uncertainty sit without rushing to resolve it.
In work and building, courage has shown up as consistency rather than intensity.
And in love and relationships, courage has meant staying open without self-abandonment, choosing honesty over reassurance, protecting your peace, and trusting others to walk their own path. It’s about creating a shared space for growth and calm, rather than feeding negativity or drama.
I’m looking forward to 2026 as a year of building and growth.
I wish everyone a beautiful year filled with peace, growth, new adventures, and good memories.
That’s fascinating. I wish Malaysia recognized the Bajau, who have traditionally lived at sea and did not adopt any religions. Borneo is home to over 200 indigenous groups and they form a majority in Malaysian Borneo. Many Kadazan and Dusun people I know are Roman Catholic.
Sabah is a wonderful place, with lovely people, beautiful beaches, amazing seafood, and of course Mt Kinabalu. It has faced challenges because much of its oil revenue was taken by the federal gov't, but things are changing. Sarawak has also grown a lot in recent years. I once went to a rainforest festival at the foot of Mount Santubung, sipping rice wine and listening to jazz and country bands from around the world. It was a cultural experience like no other.
Thanks for sharing about Malaysian Borneo, I love it.
Hey Nostr, the Primal Article Editor is here!
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Bitcoin went mainstream last week and the case for 2-of-3 multisig recovery improvised so much that it also went mainstream. Square and Bitkey are doing some incredible work.
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You might like this. I was listening to Dr. Melissa Ilardo on Huberman, where she spoke about the Bajau Laut, indigenous sea people from Malaysia, Indonesia, and the Philippines, who live on the water and have evolved extraordinary spleens. They can dive 70 meters deep and hold their breath for over 5 minutes.
Another incredible diving culture is the Ama, a group of Japanese women, some of whom still dive well into their 70s and 80s. They’ve practiced breathwork since young (isobue whistle). And live a very long life.
Apparently, breath-hold diving activates the mammalian dive reflex, the same one triggered by cold water immersion. It lowers your heart rate, conserves oxygen, and works like a built-in cardio meditation.
love the story of Meroë Marston Morse and love how deeply she appreciated both the product and the people it served. Of late I can relate to this a lot "It always seems to me that we just really get warmed up to our problems and then it’s time to quit.” Another incredible women during that timeframe was Hedy Lamarr, she was highly artistic and inventive too. She helped Howard Hughes redesign a more aerodynamic airplane wings by combining drawings of birds and fish, and later co-invented frequency-hopping technology, which became a foundational concept for Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and GPS.
Occam’s Razor.
Perhaps A/B testing on large sample sizes might provide deeper insights into the complexities of global onboarding and what actually works. For example, micro and small vendors make up nearly 90% of global businesses and contribute almost half of global revenue, yet only 20% - 30% have adopted digital tools. From my experience they understand the value of money but do not yet appreciate the complexity of exchange. Bitcoin adoption sits at a moderate 4% of the global population after 16 years. We need to figure out what would help accelerate the s-curve
I came across your youtube videos as I was looking for how to make kefir drinks. Didn't realise you are on Nostr. Incredible.
This is beautiful. In a world where women are constantly judged for everything, it's so refreshing to read that none of it mattered when it came to love. I love that you'll are bringing a little girl into this world and I love how you both love life. Wishing you both all the happiness and joy.
There is nothing wrong with light brown, mixed raced people. The eyes, hair, skin function perfectly fine in any country, climate and condition. Maybe the only problem is feeling jaded with racism, eugenics, and xenophobia disguised as “cultural pride”. If you want to procreate within your own ethnicity, that’s your choice. But there is no need to denigrate others with racial purity and exclusion. Appreciation of heritage comes with love, respect, openness, and humanity, not colour code and biological gatekeeping.
incredible. i guess someone had to lead and show the way for others to follow. Nostr devs built. Nostr users zapped. Now Apple follows
When you look into a mirror, it is a reflection of the past because of the time delay (light reflection from eyes - mirror - eyes). Similarly when you gaze into the sky through a telescope, if you're looking at a star that's 10 light-years away, the light you see left that star 10 years ago. And so I’ve always wondered, if we sent rockets to outer space 10 light-years away looking back at Earth (through a telescope), could we get a visible glance of history and set the records straight ?
What happens when a brilliant physicist experiences enlightenment? He derives every bit of it. Federico Faggin proposes consciousness as quantum information, a field of energy and awareness. A way to merge science and spirituality. His moment of realization came at Lake Tahoe, where he felt an overwhelming outflow of unconditional love. Being a scientist at heart, he got down to the "qubit" level to understand the experience. This is a good interview. He also wrote the book ‘Irreducible’ . Federico Faggin is known to have created the first microprocessor.
Buckminster Fuller also had a similar epiphany while looking at Lake Michigan. He was on the verge of suicide after loosing his daughter. He had this thought at that point. What could a single ordinary individual achieve on behalf of all humanity if they did not worry about personal gain or conventional success? That got him to pick up on life again and he went on to create geodesic dome, pioneered Design Thinking and devoted himself to "doing more with less",
Ironically Federico Faggin also touches on the concept of doing more with less, and the simplicity within complexity as he develops quantum information. His concept sounds radical but if you are familiar with physics and mathematical derivations, you’d realise everything is based on assumptions. Having a strong sense of self awareness is a powerful tool yet very few look inward. Even fewer have epiphanies while staring at a lake =)
good points. maybe instead of mainstream, need to target niche markets or specific causes.
What's your learning from it ? What's good and bad and how to make it better ?
I’d think branding (as in identity - what it does etc) and target audience (how to reach out to them) might help. If we see Nostr as the new internet, then everything is new here and needs more startups. Need more Kat :)
vibes. thought might be interesting to bridge YT and streaming, creating opportunities for people to earn. good luck and have fun!
If you are doing a Val Kilmer tribute let me know. I would want to watch The Saint again, so sweet. Him in Tombstone was good too - as Doc Holiday i think ? Tho he would have made an excellent Gambit. Are you streaming it and planning to make it the next Netflix or Apple TV style on Nostr ? Or something different ?
Just wild. NASA wanted to cover up. The president wanted to cover up. Feynman said no
Richard Feynman was quite the rebel of his days. In Jan 1986, the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded shortly after take-off. All seven crew members on-board died. Feynman was part of the Rogers Commission that investigated the crash.
In a televised hearing, he dipped an O-ring (a rubber seal from the shuttle) into a glass of ice water to demonstrate how cold kills elasticity. The launch day had been extremely cold, and the O-ring lost flexibility and deformed instead of properly sealing. His demo was simple but unforgettable and it went on to became one of the most iconic moments in the Challenger’s legacy.
The sad part was the Morton Thiokol engineers responsible for the booster rocket flagged the problem and recommended against a launch that morning, but NASA bosses overruled it. In his addendum to the final report, Feynman blatantly criticized NASA’s culture for ignoring the risks.
I’ve been reading about many mavericks this week and I gotta say, rebel geniuses are such bad boys. Richard Feynman is a physicist who won the Nobel Prize in 1965. He is known for his work in quantum mechanics, quantum electrodynamics and more. He also picks locks, plays the bongo and apparently likes nude sunbathing.
Some of his memorable quotes :
Don't listen to the person who has the answers. Listen to the person who has the questions.
The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits (this could be einstein but its good)
The exception proves that the rule is wrong (love this)
Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not the main reason for doing it.
I have a friend who's an artist and has sometimes made a mistake, but his feeling is that it makes the picture more original.
I think it is much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong.
We are so used to looking at the world from the point of view of living things that we cannot understand what it means not to be alive.
Replacing an emotional void with children or dogs doesn’t end well. Too many emotionally immature adults out there with neglected children who end up self-parenting themselves. My mom has an ngo that helps single moms and the stories of neglected children are so traumatising. Maybe work on inner peace and stability first. When you are whole, everything becomes a privilege and joy - your partner, children, animals.
I think people should be more upset about why there are so many broken relationships and broken families, compared to dogs. But it's also interesting to observe what people value.