Left Bitcoin Jungle in Costa Rica and made it back home in Mexico.

Ngl, it’s nice to not be constantly sweating and showering every other hour 😅

GN

If a guy has an unattractive face, like 75% of the time he can fix it with a beard.

That’s why a lot of guys in their 50s and 60s end up looking better than they did in their 30s and 40s- they grow a beard.

I saw an old politician on a news clip yesterday and didn’t even recognize him at first because he had a beard. Looked better than he did decades ago. Happens almost every time.

Anyway, good morning.

Check out Geuthary. Best wave I’ve surfed in Europe 45min south of there.

Our local shawarma joint added BTC as an actual payment method in his point of sale so that it prints BTC on his receipts. What a madlad!

Life me up.

One of my better typos

Kefir is the fucking best

GM from PV country 🇨🇷🤙

It’s hot and humid as hell, but I’m excited to explore the town!

Yeah. That is a real thing. I’ll never forget the conversation in Uvita with Shannon (spelling?!) about that. The algo is a feature not a bug for creators.

But I’m with you, feels like it has to be long-term negative given how fickle and weak out simple animal brains are most of the time.

Nostr is orders of magnitude tinier than twitter, and cannot compete with this today.

Keep milking the fiat 🐮.

Interesting... it will be super interesting to see how this plays out.

Whoa. That's serious. What sort of reach do they have? e.g. what's the rate of payout here?

Every year, I spend 1-2 months living in Egypt. This is because my husband is originally from Egypt, his family is much larger than mine, and so while our economic base is in the US, our social base is actually in Egypt. I thus became multinational many years ago.

However, my husband spends 3-4 months each year in Egypt, while I only spend 1-2 months there. So, there are 1-2 months where I’m in the US alone. The reason I choose to do this is to look after the household and business, and because I’m not as productive in Egypt (inconsistent internet, less optimal workstation, way more social pressures, and so forth).

In some ways, we find that spending some time apart strengthens our relationship and lets us focus on our separate things for part of the year. And when we meet after 1-2 months, it’s such a great reunion. We find ourselves wanting to catch up on so much and spend extra time together. But also, even though in some ways I look forward to having time alone and indeed get a lot done during that time, I immediately regret it once I am alone. I find myself constantly looking forward to going to Egypt, as I am now. During these periods, I end up posting more on social media, either constructively or non-constructively, in what tends to be a replacement for diminished in-person contact.

This seems to be amplified by my work situation. When I was an engineer, I worked with colleagues in person each day, but now that I work from home, my colleagues are virtual and I meet them in person only at major events. So, this relatively brief window each year of being in a different place than my husband tends to be oddly monk-like, with me at home alone 24 hours per day, working and living and doing whatever I do. I think one of my future goals will be to increase my deliberate effort at spending time with local friends, especially during this part of the year.

Anyway, I’m doing a series of “real thoughts” uniquely on Nostr, and this is the first one.

Conclusion: Social circles are (obviously) a very important thing, including for workaholics and introverts like myself. Social circles affect us in various ways, and having gone through many cycles, I have become increasingly aware of the changes that take place during these seasonal cycles of being close to others vs far from others.

I will not live in the pod, eat the bugs, turn off the air conditioning, or visit the Orb.

Like a psychopath.