From the front it's just a boring house in a neighborhood. In the back I am slowly adding beds, a mini orchard, compost, and worm bin.

What do you figure the male/female ratio on Nostr is?

lot of people in my life say they want to try jiu jitsu/ mma / etc but won’t commit to a trial class when offered.

the first time i ever went to a boxing gym I just sat in my car in the parking lot, severely out of shape, drug addicted, broke. I wasn’t there to meet anyone. no one knew i was there. I didn’t know anyone there. I didn’t know why I was there. I didn’t go inside.

But for me to even pull up to a gym for the first time was passing a hurdle that changed my life. the next day I held my self accountable, and returned. I just watched. The day after that I put on some borrowed gloves and participated. demonstrable intent, embracing failure.

I’ve built on that slowly. defeating core limiting beliefs by degrees. The gains have been exponential over time, tho many ups and downs. I’m not a world champion in anything, but I have learned how to learn, and embrace new and uncomfortable lifestyles & communities. Learned a lot, failed even more, but importantly just ever broadening my human experience.

My point is try new things. Say yes to people. Erase your calendar. Go camping alone. Go on a blind date. Move to thailand. You can do whatever the fuck you want in this life. Quit your job. Go broke. Take a salsa class. Volunteer at a halfway house. Talk to strangers. Buy a boat. Spray paint something. Just don’t become complacent and too comfortable. embrace, Don’t waste this inexplicable existence.

If your ambitions outpace your ability, and you are showing up for life. you can’t lose.

no need to broadcast or virtue signal that you intend to do or start something to feed your ego or mask a social insecurity. no need to be successful in the eyes of others. catch myself doing these a lot honestly.

but important to remember it’s you vs you. Others can serve as occasional benchmarks or inspiration, but how you push to improve yourself when no one is around is the only relevant measure of progress.

so just go do that new thing. enjoy it, enjoy the new people you meet and the learning process 🤙 oss

-photo from my first week of boxing, 2019

v-day dinner convo just ended up being a debate/argument over which one of us would be the more successful criminal mastermind/supervillain…

my wife is perfect

I'm obsessed with privacy and have been for many years. A long time ago, I figured out that it was going to be completely impossible to hide everything about myself from corporations and governments. Instead, I try to create a false signal to drown out the bits of personal info I inadvertently leave in the ether.

I used to be paranoid about filling out surveys. Now, I take everyone offered and lie my ass off. When I heard that the NSA had created the world's largest data warehouse to store all encrypted data, I not only got a VPN, but I bought the fastest internet connection I could and started pumping out vast amounts of encrypted garbage. My estimate is that they have over 6,000 hard disks devoted to me now. When image recognition became a thing, I started tagging random celebrities and household objects as myself on Facebook. I sometimes tape my cell phone to delivery trucks to lay a false GPS trail. I pay cash for everything except tacos and dog biscuits. I don't own a dog.

Now, AI is slurping up all that data, in the hopes of building intelligence. All that data I created. All the outliers I caused. All the averages I ruined. All the noise I caused to cover my signal. So if your Tesla breaks hard for no reason, or your humanoid robot tries to start a conversation with your toaster, think of me. If the FBI's precrime model says you're a cucumber or your phone pastes a picture of the moon over your grandmother, think of me. If ChatGPT tells you unoxygenated blood is blue or rhizomes are the powerhouse of the cell think of me. It's all my fault and I'm not sorry.

Yes, it strips metadata in your device 🙌

GOOD MORNING #NOSTR

Big week!

Time to bring this baby girl into the world 🎀

Could possibly be best thing to ever happen in NFL history.

Could possibly be best thing to ever happen in NFL history.

Don't get me wrong, I love the business model, and the fact that they get paid that much for bringing entertainment doesn't bother me at all. They are filling a need that the majority of people are willing to pay for. Unfortunately or fortunately, I am not compelled at all by the sales pitch or the marketing attempts 😅

Imagine Kendrick performing Not Like US lol

They might make today a national holiday if he does.

I really tried to like football as a kid, I knew it would have made my dad happy so I pretended sometimes. Honestly, I'd rather remove popcorn ceiling from every room in the house than sit and watch grown men play with a ball. #superbowl #plebchain