“The key to making money, and therefore living a life of less stress, is to cause someone to joyfully give you money in exchange for something that they perceive to be of greater value than the money they gave you.”
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I subscribed until I found #nostr! Now I just have a legacy network I've left behind to pull other people to the nostr network future.
We all like to pretend that "Inside you, there are two wolves..."
In reality inside you, there is one monkey and you have no idea what you're doing!
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I love your thoughts! I also thrive, and find purpose and opportunity on the internet: I post quotes for context, pushback, and perspective - I'm delighted at your engagement! I'm constantly swinging like a pendulum between the analog and digital worlds - pros and cons to everything- and I am but one singular human perspective. I love just observing, thinking about, and pontificating on potential futures and modes of interfacing with reality. Existence is complex, complicated, confusing, absurd, and amazing - I'm just along for the ride!
Systems engineer and environmental scientist Donella Meadows on nonmaterial needs:
"People don't need enormous cars; they need admiration and respect. They don't need a constant stream of new clothes; they need to feel that others consider them to be attractive, and they need excitement and variety and beauty. People don't need electronic entertainment; they need something interesting to occupy their minds and emotions. And so forth.
Trying to fill real but nonmaterial needs—for identity, community, self-esteem, challenge, love, joy—with material things is to set up an unquenchable appetite for false solutions to never-satisfied longings. A society that allows itself to admit and articulate its nonmaterial human needs, and to find nonmaterial ways to satisfy them, world require much lower material and energy throughputs and would provide much higher levels of human fulfillment."
Source: The Limits to Growth
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Everyone keeps wishing away this era of cheap, cheap Bitcoin, I'm over here grinding away trying to responsibly shovel as much as I can into cold storage.
Stick this in your legacy journals: There will be a day in the future when 1 Sat will feed a family for a whole year: I may or may not be alive at that moment but unless some great planetwide cataclysm occurs it's inevitable.
Bitcoiners are creating a new era of generational wealth and true financial freedom free from the historical structures of control.
It will be the greatest inversion in recorded history, people will look back in awe at the days when we are zapping stacks of sats around because a funny picture made us laugh.
Bedtime procrastination, curiosity, love of the night, intellectual quiet time, internet rabbit holes.
Lifespan
A firefly lives two months.
There are bristlecone pines standing today that have lived 5,000 years.
The vital dignity of each of these species is not measured in time.
Both are perfection.
Treat your time likewise.
Your moments deserve the same careful attention as your years.
pg.64
"Field Guide to the Haunted Forest"
by Jarod K. Anderson
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Agree.
It's all about maintaining power. This scary computer is too dangerous for you, Joe Taxslave to interact with: Let Uncle Sam take care of that mean nasty scary computer for you.
It's about limiting access to the general population, if you don't think the powers that be are not in a furious AI arms race you are not awake.
Going to pick up my daughter from the psychiatric hospital today. New doctors, new medications, hopefully she'll help pull herself out of the abyss.
Wish me luck #nostr, I'll take all the encouragement I can get.
Books or quotes that have helped you are more appreciated than anything else, I think there's a lot of power in the correct words at the right time. Maybe I'll have the wisdom and perspective to write more about it someday.
#mentalhealth #parenting #grownostr #plebchain #braceyourself
2140 hopefully by then we'll have colonies started on other planets and perhaps a new form of decentralized governance. The bitcoin of political power?
It's fun to think about, there's a lot of combined global brainpower that's going to be thinking about all the upcoming problems and issues. Who knows exactly what will happen, but I'm optimistic that the good guys will win in the end, I think "evil" -bad decisions - inefficiency -entropy- whatever you'd like to label it is all self-defeating.
I mean if you take a long enough view entropy might eventually win at the heat death of the universe but that's way longer than my perspective.
RIP Gorden Lightfoot: he was a great songwriter, here's my favorite:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vST6hVRj2A&ab_channel=Zeezy
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Hymn To Time
by Ursula K. Le Guin
Time says “Let there be”
every moment and instantly
there is space and the radiance
of each bright galaxy.
And eyes beholding radiance.
And the gnats’ flickering dance.
And the seas’ expanse.
And death, and chance.
Time makes room
for going and coming home
and in time’s womb
begins all ending.
Time is being and being time,
it is all one thing,
the shining, the seeing,
the dark abounding.
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Flow
Lives aren't completed.
They're concluded.
You are, and forever will be, unfinished.
This is nature.
Cycles and spectrums.
Moments and seasons.
Do you ask when the weather will be complete?
The spring finished?
Your life won't have one point or purpose.
You're lovelier than that.
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I'm noticing weird effects that I just can't put my finger on. Comments or like will be visible in one client but not in another. I will receive a zap on a post but later the zap isn't visible... despite "having the receipts" I'm too new to nostr to know what "normal" conditions look like.
If you get bored one day and send me some recommendations that would be HOT! I have no time but I keep adding books to my future reading pile.
Onions really! Wow, it's peppers, that always have failed around here. I'm sure it's a climate thing. I never understand people who are bored, I could live a thousand years and there would still be things I was trying to learn.
Nostr cheat code: I will always zap unique book recommendations! Thanks also to you, sharing knowledge is why we have achieved some form of civilization, books are truly magical artifacts, so many people have forgotten just how much they have altered our current reality.
Have you heard of, read, or have any thoughts on this book:
A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series)
I keep almost picking it up but it's not my main field of knowledge: I like reading outside my knowledge base and looking for weird connections.
Good morning and good night #nostr
One last poem for the road:
Options
The rat will adapt to most any landscape.
The beaver will gnaw and slap and drag the landscape to fit her needs.
I can't tell you which is better.
Just reminding you that both are options.
Pg 46
Love Notes from the Hollow Tree
Jared K. Anderson
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