its understood

I'm not interested in debating. I've encountered gender and racial stereotypes since childhood—but I was lucky I had a dad who told me I can be whatever I want to be. When you have a daughter, you don’t tell her she is identified by some gender bias definition or remembered by her “womanly nature of gossiping”. You tell her she can be whatever she wants to be, and she won't let nobody label her.

Just a business tip, don't go explaining your business nature in a stereotype explanation. It never helps. Just find another definition.

Nostr needs more powerful women on board. Somedays, it feels like the 1920s

It's not complicated. Don't mock people, don't underestimate people. Making fun of another culture you don't know about doesn't come close to justifying this innate nature of gender bias - both are bad. And no amount of "gossip is a form of superior habit and I am all for it" will turn the tide on this. Just don't be shallow. It's simple

I've been observing how people approach problems - there are commonly two types: problem-solvers and blame-shifters. This divide is evident in social media discussions, where some address issues, while others resort to personal attacks. I spoke with a professor who works on entrepreneurship and mind development on this over the weekend - according to him, those who shift blame lack maturity and have a limited and narrow perspective on life.

I’m reading a book on growth mindset vs fixed mindset by Carol Dweck. It emphasizes shaping intelligence through effort, embracing failure for growth. Fixed mindset individuals see abilities as fixed, avoid challenges, give up easily, nit pick and come with personal attacks. In contrast, a growth mindset believes in developing through dedication, embracing challenges, persisting in setbacks, and finding inspiration in others' success - the folks that talk about issues, not people.

Dweck also suggests exams validate a fixed mindset, limiting growth - especially when one has achieved that A, and assume there is nothing left to learn. Her study with school kids esp underserved kids introduced the concept of "not yet" for failures, encouraging persistence. This approach showed significant changes in how these kids continuously foster effort instead of quitting within a year

If you have some thoughts on what are the differential characteristics between the problem-solvers and blame-shifter, I’d love to know more

assuming the name gossip appeals to women and the whole trail

that's condescending

i think not having relays to rely on makes it challenging - i refer to my book reviews plenty, i am sure it will be harder for content creators. And not everyone live in countries where they can have their own relays as their equipment can get confiscated on a whim. If relays are going to get nuked or migrated, change of hands etc, perhaps some time frame and guideline to mirroring data to other relays needs to be provided.

to some extend - confident but humble, the over confident ones are cringe lol

There’s something very attractive about people who know their self worth, and don’t need to live by the approval or validation of others

love it

you are not obnoxious. Neither are you judgemental nor do you force religion onto people. I've had exchanges with you on the interchangeable aspect of religion and politics and you had a realistic, non emotional perspective of it and I appreciate that. I'll go with the definition of one who is both passionate about his faith and the potentials of nostr, but doesn't impose

Happy birthday!

Same. Good Night Karnage

Happy Happy birthday nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m!

Just like how Jack asks us to wish fiatjaf gm and thank you for Snowden, let's all wish Jack for his bday - and flood his notification =)

hope you get some rest too - sometimes it helps to just shutdown and mentally de-clutter - before the wave of the week comes roaring in. But its nice to see people love what they do instead of being miserable

of all the dog rescues I've read, this is the most elevated one! Absolutely incredible

Interesting, thanks for sharing, Rabble. I think it's super cool that I get to ask you and nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m these questions here - Nostr is awesome for this and more =)

On Signal, it seems like it's at the upper end of Series A scenario—50 employees, tens of millions raised, with a focus on market penetration.

With federal tax exemption (for nonprofits) and assuming allocations for state tax, 401(k), matching, social security, and various benefits total a generous 40%, the remaining 60% still represents the upper-end salary for a Silicon Valley software engineer.

The median salary, split across maintenance, development, administration would typically be in between low and high. Another irony is the absence of an allocation for user adoption, which is a significant budget component at this stage.

With regards to non-profit, they can make revenue through their offerings. Oftentimes funders would ask what's their sustainable funding model / solid revenue strategy which includes earned income strategy. However, they have to expense it out to zero profit. This differs significantly with a for-profit B-corp.

With regards to growth, if the emphasis has been to defend instead of building, then Signal will crumble. They have to focus on building.

I think the largest wave of user adoption happened when Jack and Elon tweeted about Signal - that’s when my circle of friends who are top level working crowd picked it up. These groups do not care for stories, but they have large influence among their peers. Perhaps the user adoption strategy can be through high level working crowds. That’s Apple’s strategy, and All Birds strategy too.

Another option is to incorporate lightning, provide free sats to encourage wallet setup, and once this currency is normalized, it would be easier to ask for a donation.

I have worked with startups around the world with extreme diff opportunities. Some want everything on a silver platter, some have nothing, and even if they have something, their government takes it away and they start on a negative. Some go through even worse than that. They still try to find ways to make it work.

If you have 33 million dollars a year, and really popular people using it, for goodness sake, figure out a way to make it work.

Startups hustle. Would be good if Signal complaints less and builds more. I don’t know who Moxie is but if he reads this, I think there are a lot of opportunities to grow Signal and I hope that will soon be the focus.

there are 2 things that puzzles me on this

1. currently their spending amount totals to $33mm, with $14 million on infrastructure and $19 million on staff cost - per year. But they only have 50 full time staffs. That either means each employees take home salary is $30k per month, which is really high, or there is a huge allocation going else.

2. This idea of "non-profit" - doesn't mean, its non-revenue generating business. You can generate very high revenue - but you have to expense out all your earnings/profits back into the business - hence zero-profit. Allbirds, Patagonia are B-Corps who are 100% public benefit company. I am not too sure what's the restriction Signal has in generating revenue.

I also think the focus hasn't been much on business strategy, business growth nor user adoption as it has been putting in engineering and R&D effort into creating stories, altcoin.

I think more business expansion focus is needed - ie like being able to transfer bitcoin/fiat through it would expand purpose and hence more users.

I might be wrong here, but I have always found Signal's budget allocation a little odd but i might be completely wrong. cc nostr:npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 as I saw this post through his repost, and nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m who is a major funder and would have better clarity

saw an article about his sister claiming similar accounts and its a bit disturbing