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Michael R. Sullivan
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Writing the Great American Bitcoin Novel 📚🧡✍️

Just wrapped up lunch hour #bjj

I'm so grateful to have a pursuit that checks off so many gratifying boxes:

Amazing physical exercise ✅️

Challenging mental problems ✅️

Unmatched flow states ✅️

Incredible bad asses to train with ✅️

It makes me a better person each time I step on the mat. I hope you have something you love as much in your own life ❤️💪🥋🤼‍♀️

Just imagine, leaving your money in long term treasuries... 💭

Netting 1% return YOY over the last 20 📉

Consistently losing value to inflation 💸

Tons of counterparts risk in this "safe" investment 🏦

It's easy to see how people can lose hope, #bitcoin fixes this 🧡

I only use it when I'm on web, but it's really good in my experience!

GM 🌄

PV ☕️

Time to get after it 💪📚🖊

#writing #books #reading

I love this perspective and agree, however I do think there are some interesting similarities in my job as a software engineer.

If my brain isn't working great, instead of fixing the biggest problem, sometimes I'll do the little, small, easy stuff that needs to get done.

Just like in writing, I show up every day.

But some days I recognize that my efforts may be less than optimal for thinking through a critical large peice of plot architecture. But I can certainly tackle some of the smaller todos and make important headway on the project.

I'll be sitting down right after I walk my dog!

My first draft of my novel was a bit of a disaster, but there is a pearl in there somewhere. So I'm going through a bunch of outlining and exploratory journaling for each and every chapter, getting a bit more nuanced on each characters heads pace during each chunk of the story.

Should be fun 🤓📚🖊

Two other side problems:

1) Overlapping user highlights, this wouldn't be supported and there would be to be some algorithmic way to decide what text should receive highlights if multiple users have highlighted the text.

2) Editing of the document wouldn't be supported, as if the base text changes it would break all of the relative highlighting. Granted, if this is all built on Notes this wouldn't be relevant as "Notes are forever" 💎💍

I just read the article #[2]

I see you are referring to building Nostr reading client, text reading this functionality is 100% possible on web browsers.

The only important caveat that I can think of is that there would be to be some guard rails in place so readers can only highlight valid text. As adding HTML elements to the DOM could break things if not handled properly.

This shouldn't be a problem with pure text though. But multi-section or multi-paragraph highlighting could have some unique (but minor) challenges.

I'm a writer and software engineer so this sounds like a great idea!

The default "scroll to text" functionality in most browsers is dependent upon the text area being wrapped in div with an ID.

If you have control over the content of the page, it would certainly be possible to add div wrappers around a section of highlighted text.

Are you making short bitcoin videos? Or showing off your legs in orange bitcoin short shorts?

I'm interested either way.

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"If you are so smart, why aren't you happy" is one of my favorite quotes by Naval Ravikant.

I frequently remind myself that success is so much more than brute force brain power.

I think so as well. Sexual/physical attraction is one of the best metrics to determine how someone is aging, your evolutionary instincts > than his science and money.

What is your goto sea food in the cold NoDak winters?

(I really love sardines)

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Such a good visualization of the problem.

Many blame the previous party every iteration of the issue. But it's an exponential problem, so just because the debt wasn't as big doesn't mean the problem wasn't equally pernicious during their term.

The only way out of those problem is for our government to immediately become competent, or find some alternative system 😏🧡

Happy to zap you some more! You put out incredible educational content and have directly impacted by dive down the bitcoin rabbit hole.

Much love brother.

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One of the single most formative experiences of my life, I wish more people would be more open minded about using them.

Morning all! Grateful to have a life filled with so much challenge and flow inducing experiences.

Time to get after it! 💪☕️🌅