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Josh Brown
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Helping nonprofit folks lead with less stress and more clarity

This is why I work on Nostr.

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Yes! I always love new hardware! Glad everything is faster for you now!

Enjoyed this post about X, Nostr, Mastodon, and others:

https://highlighter.com/a/naddr1qvzqqqr4gupzqtkqtqa8m2md0lhr9mcd2fwsefd99ff4lvnwezp8ykfwld3lyr04qy88wumn8ghj7mn0wvhxcmmv9uqq6vfhxgurxve5xcerwwpsxydr7f92

I do wonder about this — everyone says this, but I’m not sure _why_:

"Do regular users really need to think about public and private keys? Yes, yes, I get it — users have to keep in mind their privacy if they want to have it. But you have to read at least something to understand what you're doing, which is automatically more difficult than simply press ‘Sign up’.”

_Do_ regular users really need to think about public and private keys? Why?

This. The weird onboarding process for Nostr is a serious issue, but not an unsolvable one. We can figure this out.

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Started re-reading Badass: Making Users Awesome and absolutely love the caption on this image:

Yep, it’s really cool to have my Nos Team list and my Nostr Devs list in addition to the list of everyone I’m following. Sometimes I just want to check in on my team and see what they’re posting, and now I can do that with nostr:npub1pu3vqm4vzqpxsnhuc684dp2qaq6z69sf65yte4p39spcucv5lzmqswtfch!

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nostr:npub16c0nh3dnadzqpm76uctf5hqhe2lny344zsmpm6feee9p5rdxaa9q586nvr 👋 hey, Linda mentioned that you (or someone on your team) might be willing to talk with us about some technical details around Nostr apps in general. Specifically, we’re looking at implementing some automated tests for scroll performance in Nos for iOS and I’d love to know if the Primal team has any experience with those. Thanks in advance!

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To create the iPhone, Apple took existing technologies like touch displays and improved on the user experience with multi-touch gestures. This effectively forced all keyboard based phones to change their approach or go extinct.

Steve Jobs quoted Wayne Gretzky in the iPhone reveal - “I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been”

Where is the puck going for social?

Is it the same old firehose of information that aims to maximize time on screen and ad revenue?

Is it control by a corporation that bends knee to the current administration and decides who and when they can deplatform someone for arbitrary reasons?

Is it more of the same walled garden, do anything possible to keep you on our platform?

Me thinks not. Nostr and some variation / improvement we have yet to discover is where the puck is going. We’re kind of already there. We have portable identities, a decentralized network, flexible development, no censorship, personalized feeds / algorithms, value based metrics and less emphasis on vanity metrics.

What also made the iPhone powerful is the fusion of hardware and software created specifically for that hardware. The App Store set a new path that didn’t involve pre-installed software. Nostr doesn’t have dedicated hardware yet, but it may get somewhat of a dedicated “os” with nostrdb. What new UX might that unlock? I’m excited to see.

Where else might the puck end up? VR? AR? Dedicated hardware? A totally new UX and UI? We already have interesting designs in the process for zapping people. What might new value-driven interactions look like? I’m certain we have the beginnings of something amazing, and that no other tech comes close. We have a massive first mover advantage now and I’m excited to see how things unfold.

I’d love for us to skate to where we help people have healthier, more social lives. Especially after reading these articles about how too much solitude (the way we’re currently living) is unhealthy and causes so much unhappiness.

https://time.com/7205289/vivek-murthy-interview-surgeon-general/

https://archive.is/PmWkf

A lot of this article rings true and aligns with other things I’ve been seeing, hearing, and reading.

https://archive.is/PmWkf

Along these lines, we recently had the Surgeon General’s Parting Prescription for America, and the Join or Die documentary on Netflix. It sure sounds like the consensus is that self-imposed solitude is destroying our health and happiness.

https://time.com/7205289/vivek-murthy-interview-surgeon-general/

https://www.netflix.com/title/81746809

So: what do you think? Are we doomed to unhappiness if we don’t spend time with people in real life?

Thanks to nostr:npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 for sharing the Atlantic article with the team and to nostr:npub1j60x528w2g2vkq5kae5uhh8y7sezjyj20zcsg0v9muc72cmdpu0s0md7ua for sharing the documentary.

Yes! Cursor and Warp have both been awesome for me, too, by generating a lot of code that would’ve taken me too long to figure out on my own.

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I really don’t know much about Kotlin or Android dev in general so I’m in the “it can’t be that hard” zone. But I know from experience that things are never “not that hard”. 😄