I reached into my mailbox last week and a spider climbed up my hand. I was not thrilled about this, to say the least.

Whenever I have considered moving to other places, always one of my serious considerations is the bug situation.

Yeah bro and they climb walls…

This is really cool! Is it a pizza oven or just an outdoor fireplace? #pizzaoven #pizza #foodstr

That is amazing! Is that a restaurant setup or home? #proofofsteak #foodstr #grilling

have any of you ditched mobile phone for laptop only?

If a book had a decent number of diagrams and charts, would you want the audio version or would you want the physical/ebook (visual version)?

Secondary question- if those charts and diagrams are described in the audio version by someone who knows what they are talking about, would that affect the answer?

If you had somehow found yourself deep in macro/commodity/goldbug/outdated-photos land for a weekend, and could present basically anything to this type of audience, what would you present about?

Hypothetically speaking, if "bitcoin" is your answer, a more sufficient answer would be to suggest which *specific* aspects of bitcoin to appeal to them.

I've done a few conferences like this before and I tend to focus on freedom aspects. I'm like, "who here in the audience knows who Phil Zimmerman is? Basically nobody? Okay cool, let's talk about encryption and rights and the shenanigans he went through." And then I can move that into a global perspective. "Imagine you're in Argentina. What do you do for money? So, I know a new company called Fedi that seeks to help communities build their own private full-reserve banks. Want to hear about it?"

What would you emphasize here that would connect well?

When Zuckerberg tried to launch Facebook coin (Libra) in 2019, he was immediately called to a congressional hearing and the whole thing was shut down. Kind'a makes you think who's behind Sam Altman

and why he is so willing to run around talking about his new centralized "UBI" identity coin w/ no fear from the SEC or anyone else in government...ESPECIALLY after all the lawsuits in the past 12 months.

Here in Argentina nobody talk about #Bitcoin on TV. We are just worried about the dollar value 24/7

Kind words from Preston.

It has been a very time consuming process resulting in some degree of burnout, so I am excited to get it out there. nostr:note1lgas448rpp3jqdnh5d48n67ey8q54y3fnf8k48knlvt5znzuwtpsrzu4vh

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the wobble wobble factor is nearly as profound as satoshi’s difficulty adjustment.

Instead of doing it randomly, maybe I should think about doing a handful of heart-to-heart notes on Nostr. Like when I’m annoyed by something, I put it in my Nostr category and write about it here. All my articles, books, interviews, and tweets can talk about my macro stuff, and here I can talk about human stuff. That is so far how I find myself using it.

People need a reason to be on Nostr. For some power users, they have good technical discussions here. For others, the inverse network effect can be hard. Plenty of people join, look around, and leave.

So I wonder, what content can I post only on Nostr that would be useful for helping Nostr adoption? The more I think about it, there are some thoughts I would share to a smaller group on Nostr and not to 600k followers on Twitter.

Even though notes can become kind of immortalized, sharing to a smaller and more selected group feels better. And if it’s a tech protocol I want to succeed, what can I put here to encourage people to come? Should I post my same macro stuff here as an afterthought? Or should I use it to post unique content that somehow feels better expressed here, for now? Seems like that’s a better option.

I rarely lose my temper, but whenever I do a couple times per year, my writing gets 10x as much reach and likes and shares, and gets basically immortalized. But I'm rarely happy about it when it does.

I still think about this a lot in terms of how I choose to use social media- with reach comes responsibility.

It's both a bad thing and a good thing. On one hand, it's not great that posts based on a combination of emotion and reason get *way* better reach than ones based on more pure reason alone. For "clicks" the best thing I could do for a given post is lose my temper and go all-out on something.

On the other hand, the rare cases where I lose my temper are based on serious built-up frustrations over months. I'm frustrated about something, keep holding it back, and then something becomes intolerable. My socially-compliant self-censorship all unravels at once, not perfectly, but with a clear aspect of *deep* honesty. And people see that honesty because it reflects their own. So it spreads.

So, most of the time, I write carefully, and I know my audience comes from multiple different backgrounds, literally from Indonesian farmers to Wall Street institutional billionaires, and I try to politely move the Overton window from within the Overton window. But a couple times per year, I lose my temper and post my emotional thoughts, which in some ways are more honest, but are also not exactly my ideal self-actualized self.

I end up being grateful for both my constant attempt at control and my rare tempers, because somewhere in the middle is my truth. That blend between controlled reason and built-up emotion is really hard to manage in an era of digital media and semi-immortalized content.

Anyway, I'll post this random stuff on Nostr, not Twitter. You guys and girls get the real thoughts because you're here.

Before Nostr, I didn’t know what pura vida meant and I didn’t use hug emojis.

Lol. 🫂🫂🫂

The power of a communication protocol where 1) you genuinely want it to succeed but 2) it still doesn’t get a ton of reach at the moment. You post your heart there.

I think some of these people should travel