I’ve been using Signal for about ten years. In the beginning, it was just my wife and me. Then I added a few Android tech friends. Eventually, I convinced a few more friends to join, but most of them left after a while. Later, I got some family members to try it, though they barely used it.

Over time, I added more tech-savvy friends, then more local friends and family. Eventually, I started connecting with tons of online friends from Bitcoin Twitter and then Nostr. Even the friends and family who had left before came back. Now, Signal has become my main way of communicating with my family, several friend groups, and just about everyone except a few outlier RCS text chats.

My point is: it takes time for people to migrate from one app to another. It can take years before adoption really takes hold. Apps like White Noise and others will have the same journey. Keep using them. Don’t stop. You’re on the right path.

Ԍood Ⅿorning and pura vida, nostr! It's time to create notes and send zaps! 💜🫂🤙🏻

Next stop, Penn's Woods!

The entire week of #NosVegas could not have been done without the generous and amazing support of nostr:nprofile1qqs0rxy6jmt44guxkny8z4pkym9mxckqxfytygxuntjn6l80hj409sgpzfmhxue69uhky6t5wd6xzcmt9eshquqpzfmhxue69uhhqatjwpkx2urpvuhx2ucpzamhxue69uhkxcfwdaexzmn8v4cxjmrv9ejx2asult5ph. Thank you so much nostr:nprofile1qqsvyc3vj9kehy8pp2qm9wn8kxdal3wkhcnvy46k68uep5mctnsnvxcprdmhxue69uhhyetvv9ujucnfw33k76twwpshy6ewvdhk6qgcwaehxw309aex2mrp0yh8xmn0wf6zuum0vd5kzmqpzpmhxue69uh5ummnw3ezuamfdejsy2ju8k nostr:nprofile1qqs9336p4f3sctdrtft2wlqaq5upjz9azpgylhfd3dplwf005mfrr9spzamhxue69uhkummnw3ezuendwsh8w6t69e3xj7spz3mhxue69uhkummnw3ezummcw3ezuer9wcq3qamnwvaz7tmwdaehgu3wwa5kueg6g89xw nostr:nprofile1qqsgpq7lvzqajx6zhncsggs4ujlu39903y7dql4ywt5qr0q8jndrjdqpz3mhxue69uhhyetvv9uju6rjvchx7un89uq3samnwvaz7tmjv4kxz7fwvd6hyun9de6zuenedyhszymhwden5te0danxvcmgv95kutnsw43z7txmzjt and everyone from HRF. Without HRF a Nostr booth or lounge wouldn't have been possible.

(Alex, I kept missing you yesterday. I wanted to 🫂🤙🏻 I hope all is well brother!)

I also could not have done it without my team and our hard working volunteers and the Nostr loving folks who stopped at the lounge and talked to newcomers and Nostr curious folks as they visited the lounge.

It's people like you that are going to make all of this work. Your love and passion will onboard and educate the next wave of users. Keep up the great work.

Emotional rant:

As some of you know, my grandmother isn't doing all that well. She's 98. She was a strong and self sufficient 98 until 3 months ago. Since then, I've spent several sleepless nights in the ER saying goodbye to her, as we were told she was not going to make it through the night, to only have her rebound and recover. Ever since this rollercoaster started, I've spent nearly every single day with her during my lunch hour throughout the week. It's a lot.

She's once again not doing well, and based on past experiences, I assume she'll be back in the ER soon. It's a very real fear of mine that she'll pass away while I'm in Las Vegas next week.

This shit is stressing me out.

Thanks for letting me rant.

was entirety against listening to anything at 1.5/2x speed

now i do it with everything

Hi I’m new here on Nostr and starting to learn more about Bitcoin thanks to nostr:npub1t8uhwv9ezlswf09u6efsnklww6l3m9pnnmzeqftvqdl4pl0mlv2q3dxstr

Super excited to learn more and become a maxi bitcoiner jajaja!

This hit me...

"And in my unprofessional opinion neuroplasticity has made us increasingly digitally proficient but at a cost of being digitally dependent, and if being hired on as a London cab driver can change your brain on an MRI scan and if life experiences like PSD can alter the DNA and sperm what irreversible alterations will 30,000 hours of staring into algorithmically fed into a state of hypnosis due to the human mind or to their offspring.

In this short breath of time, we live in a state of existence that quite possibly no one else in world history has. We have both access to instant global connectivity, infinite information, and consumer-level access to artificial intelligence, but we are the last few humans in world history who remember what life was like before it. We are the last living people in history to have experienced life before the digital age."

#philosophy #commonplace #ai

I just made homemade butter for the first time.

This is the way.