In computer science, there is a point of perfection (limited by existing tech). It’s why nothing has beat bitcoin, even though billions of dollars has been poured into shitcoins that fail to live up to Bitcoin’s computer science.

Most careers do not have an opportunity for people to achieve perfection in (e.g. marketing, governing, customer service, trading, etc.), but that is exactly why I love computer science so much. I can funnel my drive for perfectionism into something that can actually materialize.

It will take perfection to achieve such a feat. Many say there isn’t “one” right way to do something… I disagree. There is a point of perfection (using existing tech), and we will reach it. It’s only a matter of time and effort now. 🐝

Beauty of modularity: as new tech emerges, like quicker databases or better encoding schemes, we can swap them out while maintaining the perfected design. The designed computer science can be perfected while the underlying pieces powering the design can evolve over time, like bitcoin. Bitcoin’s consensus rules are immutable, but it gains new pieces like Schnorr when they become available.

In terms of UX, user customization is key there because it is a subjective experience, not an objective science (CS). Have an idea cooking for that later too. :-)

I sincerely hope he does. Tried to convince him of it when I left.

Agree with all of this but would love to see some balance. Twitter obviously still has the network and zeitgeist….and is the place to be when anything happens in the world. It is the most important host for the public conversation at the moment. And nearly 2 decades to work out many issues (and create more).

Twitter will never have many of the freedoms nostr enables. Doesn’t matter who runs it. It’s the single point of failure of an organization/company versus a protocol. Don’t trust me on this. It will continue to play out over the years.

nostr will be the slow and steady one to win the race…just like bitcoin. Either you build for and upon both, or you become increasingly irrelevant and disconnected (which is a reasonable, yet severe, decision to make).

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“If you truly believe in something, you’ll find a way. If you don’t, you’ll find an excuse.”

Ignore the noise and pick up the OG materials. If you don’t have any friends in real-life that love this stuff, then you’re forced to only talk about it with people over the internet — that’s where exhausted devs go wrong.

Toxic maximalists are great when they’re defending truth with logic rather than emotional hazing, but they can’t be your only friends! Of course you’d quit if so lol. We can’t just live our whole lives behind computers and expect to feel good.

I’m not even talking about people who think bitcoin is dumb, but people who saw it, thought it was awesome, then just moved on cause it was a waste of their mental health and time.

This doesn’t even consider the bitcoin core contributors who did the same over the years, folks who worked on non-core projects, and the folks who stuck with it but feel unmotivated to even bother proposing important bug-fix soft forks because of drama.

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having a shitty day :/