My allergies ease after using my Joovv - red light therapy. You can buy smaller devises which go up your nose for a more direct treatment which are also good!
May 19th
LEARN, PRACTICE, TRAIN
“That’s why the philosophers warn us not to be satisfied with mere learning, but to add practice and then training. For as time passes we forget what we learned and end up doing the opposite, and hold opinions the opposite of what we should.”
—EPICTETUS, DISCOURSES, 2.9.13–14
May 17th
THE STOIC IS A WORK IN PROGRESS
“Show me someone sick and happy, in danger and happy, dying and happy, exiled and happy, disgraced and happy. Show me! By God, how much I’d like to see a Stoic. But since you can’t show me someone that perfectly formed, at least show me someone actively forming themselves so, inclined in this way. . . . Show me!”
—EPICTETUS, DISCOURSES, 2.19.24–25a, 28
May 16th
THE CHAIN METHOD
“If you don’t wish to be a hot-head, don’t feed your habit. Try as a first step to remain calm and count the days you haven’t been angry. I used to be angry every day, now every other day, then every third or fourth . . . if you make it as far as 30 days, thank God! For habit is first weakened and then obliterated. When you can say ‘I didn’t lose my temper today, or the next day, or for three or four months, but kept my cool under provocation,’ you will know you are in better health.”
—EPICTETUS, DISCOURSES, 2.18.11b–14
Simple… not your keys, not your coins 🫠 nostr:note1dvdwc3feujjf3a26z7dmjpwadyzqjkqqzmwevspe5vhycps7375q72c7t0
May 12th
KINDNESS IS ALWAYS THE RIGHT RESPONSE
“Kindness is invincible, but only when it’s sincere, with no hypocrisy or faking. For what can even the most malicious person do if you keep showing kindness and, if given the chance, you gently point out where they went wrong—right as they are trying to harm you?”
—MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 11.18.5.9a
Decent explanation / theory of the high fees recently by #[0] 👏
Disclaimer, I am very un-technical and is something I am working on so feel free to educate if I have shit wrong.
I selfishly think that ordinals are clogging up the mempool, but not entirely against them.
If they were more like lightning and the bulk of their transactions were able to be done off chain then every so often an onchain transaction was broadcasted, I feel ordinals would be better for the space.
But, unfortunately at the moment, I feel that they are hindering and getting in the way of people who actually NEED to use #bitcoin on a daily basis.
I am lucky, or unlucky depending on how you want to look at it, that I am able to get by using fiat for my day to day usage and use #bitcoin more as savings or future store of value.
End of rant 🫠
May 11th
GUILT IS WORSE THAN JAIL
“The greatest portion of peace of mind is doing nothing wrong. Those who lack self-control live disoriented and disturbed lives.”
—SENECA, MORAL LETTERS, 105.7
Another beautiful open source story:
When nostr:npub1cj6ndx5akfazux7f0vjl4fyx9k0ulf682p437fe03a9ndwqjm0tqj886t6 started building the Nutstash.app wallet, he was wise enough to build a TypeScript library called Cashu-TS with all the basic crypto mechanics of a Cashu wallet. Soon after, nostr:npub1dgesr3zcgyjv2z0050h7auzdlf88gycry7tlk7wsypmgngy97yxqv4mccn has entered the chat and started furiously contributing to Cashu-TS. I've never seen a dev who can close issues faster than this guy.
Importantly, libraries can be much more powerful than "just apps". Libraries enable other developers to easily build apps themselves, without having to understand and implement everything about the protocol from scratch and, thus, they accelerate innovation! It seems like Cashu-TS has now become the de facto default library for building Cashu frontend apps. Look at all the things that use it!
PS: every single sat zapped on this note will go to nostr:npub14a93ehrzfgd73uclhans95xcwdqsselevat42cqa30q73nacfnussnlgen and I hope he will continue contributing to Cashu for a long time!
Apps that use Cashu-TS: Nutstash.app, Cashu.me, redeem.cashu.me, Peanut wallet, Snort.social, eNuts wallet
👏 👏 👏
May 10th
DON’T BE INSPIRED, BE INSPIRATIONAL
“Let us also produce some bold act of our own—and join the ranks of the most emulated.”
—SENECA, MORAL LETTERS, 98.13b
May 9th
CARPE DIEM
“Let us therefore set out whole-heartedly, leaving aside our many distractions and exert ourselves in this single purpose, before we realize too late the swift and unstoppable flight of time and are left behind. As each day arises, welcome it as the very best day of all, and make it your own possession. We must seize what flees.”
—SENECA, MORAL LETTERS, 108.27b–28a
May 8th
GOOD AND EVIL? LOOK AT YOUR CHOICES
“Where is Good? In our reasoned choices. Where is Evil? In our reasoned choices. Where is that which is neither Good nor Evil? In the things outside of our own reasoned choice.”
—EPICTETUS, DISCOURSES, 2.16.1