When you work for yourself you quickly realize the traditional work week does not apply to you.

You don’t get paid holidays or health insurance. No perks or retirement matching programs.

An entrepreneur must earn everything through adding real value to the market.

If you’re up late Sunday night because that’s what it takes, I salute you and I’m with you. LFG.

if you build a #notedeck app you get zapping functionality for free. Imagine if zapping was as easy as creating a hyperlink on a webpage. notedeck manages the NWC wallet, accounts, and signer for you across all your apps.

come help us build the nostr browser 😎

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Zapping a note to buy wine isn't just novel.

It's powerful.

There are maybe 10 people in the world running their business this way. Does it give us an edge? Yes.

When you're paying for something in Bitcoin, the apex asset, you'd ideally want to try it before you buy it. But Bitcoiners aren't clustered in the same places, so most Bitcoin commerce happens online.

That means very little opportunity to sample.

You need social proof.

And there's no stronger signal than seeing someone zap a note to pay for an order.

If someone in your web of trust is willing to spend Bitcoin on a product, it's probably worth your time too. That zap is a purchase and an endorsement in one. It's a signal to everyone watching that it was worth the sats.

It also puts pressure on the seller.

That sale is public.

Everyone knows someone trusted you with Bitcoin.

Don't take that lightly.

Not every sale will happen like this, but the ones that do?

They give you something priceless.

Revenue that also works as marketing.

Your best customers are linking their reputation to yours.

You don’t have to ask for a review.

They already gave you one.

Zaps-as-purchases are rare today.

They're hard to earn.

But they are absolutely the most valuable.

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In video games there is an audible coin noise when you pay for things. I want to do something similar when you pay for tokens in dave, or when you zap someone. Maybe electricity/static sound?

what’s the sound of a zap?

A light Balkan snack… #foodstr

Black Mirror Season 7’s “Common People” episode feels terrifyingly close to reality. In some ways, that level of corporate control over people already exists—just look at the banking cartel or the pharmaceutical industry. But with the rise of technologies like Neuralink, Big Data & AI, especially if twisted into something more sinister, that control and greed could be pushed to the extreme. The struggle for everyday people to live decent, dignified lives will only get harder.

The battle for what kind of future we end up with is happening now.

Research #Bitcoin

I hope so 🤣

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Thanks man! It is crazy. Working through it though!

The more I listen to conspiracies

The more I think everyone is evil.

The more I listen to the actual people,

The more I think everyone is good.

The more I watch the news,

The more I think the world is ending.

The more I watch nature,

The more I think the world is infinite.

What you consume will ultimately consume you.

Choose wisely before you forget who is who.

Which feeds do you scroll?

Just latest or others as well?

we reject gatekeepers.

we defy borders, hierarchies, and middlemen.

code is our passport. access is our right.

permissionless technologies defend freedoms.

they scale trust without institutions.

they enable action without approval.

no one asks to speak.

no one begs to build.

no one waits to change.

we build systems that can't be shut down.

we create tools that serve all, not the few.

we write code that liberates, not controls.

this is not just infrastructure.

it’s a revolution—

silent, sovereign, unstoppable.

we don’t ask.

we deploy.

The messy truth about making a western shirt in America.

When we receive a box of 300 finished western shirts from our factory in L.A. , you’d think - this is awesome. I can throw them on my website, and start selling! Yay!

NOT THE CASE 😀

Woven shirt manufacturing has largely left the U.S. The skilled labor that can do it - isn’t really here anymore. So when you find a factory that “can” do it - you’re often not getting a perfect product back, ready to ship (unless you’re okay shipping an imperfect product - which I’m not).

So instead, we have to inspect each shirt, spec them, trim, iron, fold, bag and tag - ONE AT A TIME - before we can put it on a shelf, and it’s ready to ship to a customer.

A good junk of my time is spent in a room like this, going through shirts, hunched over an ironing board for days. Putting the good ones in one pile, putting the bad ones on the other, with detailed notes, to go back to the factory.

This is one of many reasons why most clothing businesses don’t manufacture here. They don’t want to deal with nightmares like this. Many factories here don't care sadly. You have to grind on them, relentlessly, to improve the product. It's like moving a giant cruise ship from factory hell.

Just getting a perfect quality shirt made, with zero issues, at scale - again and again - isn’t possible today, and what I'm trying to achieve / solve at the moment.

But we’re holding the line. Year after year, putting pressure on our factory to keep improving - and they are.

Two years ago, they struggled with the sides of our pocket flaps. One side would be longer than the other. Now they’re perfect.

This little detail alone is such a huge win. Little by little, we eat the elephant one bite at a time.

The entire business is insane, and often times feels impossible. But the exciting thing is, IF we pull it off, we'll be one of the only ones in the world to make this product here.