Building open source code is like building a perfectly preserved structure that exists forever in time without degredation or decay.

Our DNA/RNA is kind of the same. Once the initial hard work of constructing the code is done, and as long as the information is copied and persists through time, we can construct new versions of ourselves over and over.

Software is "alive" in a similar sense. The main downside is that it is not self-replicating or self-constructing.

Software lines can die out once the system evolves and the APIs become incompatible, so open source code must be contually evolve so that it works in the surrounding systems (OS, hardware), but that is probably the same with any subsystem within ourselves as well.

I like imagining my software as some alien obelisk that stands alone in the universe, waiting to be discovered millions of years in the future by some curious ancient-earth archaeologist.

Maybe code that renders json blobs to reverse-chronological feeds will be as quaint to future intelligences as hunter-gatherer cave paintings. More likely I have just been reading too many hard scifi space operas.

// end of random train of thought, captains log, stardate -298314

The professional side of me is fully focused on finance. It’s tiring, but I’m there every day.

The Nostr Lyn side of me keeps broadening her timeframe and keeps getting pulled to write a science fiction or fantasy novel, at this point, with all sorts of character arcs and cultural symbolism tied in. Which is almost too long of a time preference.

I wonder if a side hobby is what is needed to keep me focused on my main work. I used to have hobbies years ago, but the extreme environment of 2020-2022 kind of killed them as things went crazy and I did nothing but work. During 2023 and 2024 I explored if I should have hobbies again, but I kept focused on work, and here now I’ve determined that I should explore more.

I boosted my exercise, traveled the world, and re-explored video games. But the video games didn’t stick. Re-exploring my older writing is sticking.

Lately I’ve been trying to explore hobbies, to replicate a normal human. And writing weird sci fi or fantasy is what keeps me engaged.

#Tao Te Ching: Chapter 17

When the Master governs, the people

are hardly aware that he exists.

Next best is a leader who is loved.

Next, one who is feared.

The worst is one who is despised.

If you don't trust the people,

you make them untrustworthy.

The Master doesn't talk, he acts.

When his work is done,

the people say, "Amazing: we did it, all by ourselves!"

PSA

This place will likely be overwhelmed with trolls, morons, and angry and bitter people one day soon like all the rest. Muting will be a very necessary tool in your toolbox (and it even helps other with your web of trust), don’t forget to use it before getting angry and fighting with people trying to trigger you.

This is also how you can keep the vibe up indefinitely, curate your graph deliberately. Use the network, don’t let the network use you.

GM 😁

There's no smoke without a fire.