To feel like a human being concerned with the future of humanity and the problems we as a collective have to solve, I have to log in to my #Nostr profile. Here, I meet people like me: those who are concerned with the crashing fiat world and the future that is ahead of us.

In the so-called "normal world," this sort of discussion is quite rare.

They said cyberspace will kill humanity... I say: cyberspace will save humanity.

We are just different.

#relaythat

I dunno, but it tastes good 😂

Halving party in Austin, TX about to get started 🤙

Took kids to the park after rain. It was really wet, huge puddles. No one sane there. Youngest runs into the puddle, shoes soaked, takes them off. Older takes off shoes for fun. I fall on my ass trying to kick a ball ⚽️ we spend the rest of the time running and sliding on the dirty grass. That’s it. That was the day.

My first startup was a huge learning experience. I did not have any development experience so I hired a developer to build a vacation rental platform. I focused a lot on a proper back end while designing and structuring the front end. I had no job and was paying a developer out of my savings. Meanwhile, I approached listers on craigslist and begged them to list on my website (or let me list them for them, and some agreed).

Long story short, I ran out of money for development, because development is never "finished". You always have bugs to fix, things to tweak and it adds up. I had only maybe 300 listings on the website, zero SEO traction (which is what I was counting on the most) and an overbuilt platform with nothing to show for it. I could have done all of it on WordPress, but no... I was stubborn and thought I'd have a custom back end.

In the end I threw away 100k, became depressed for several years after that and disregarded bitcoin (this was around 2011).

My competitor who started just before me, didn't waste any time and onboarded thousands of properties. They did well organically and eventually sold to Homeaway, and later to Expedia.

That was that.

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Zaps not necessary, but here!

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I think this ability is methodically and systematically destroyed until it becomes favorite songs theme and nothing else. I watched that happen around me. One day my dream was cool and then when I passed certain age/ 😂/ it became a naive, childish narrative.

Rude Awakening it was.

fun times

The dream of changing the world is a beautiful and noble aspiration. However, this dream often becomes suppressed the moment we stop being children. Throughout my life, whenever I've mentioned that changing the world is my main goal as an artist and an individual, I've encountered all kinds of weird reactions.

The world around us is so broken that this admirable goal is often considered a crazy, dangerous, and toxic idea. But we must not let that discourage us. We must keep dreaming and working towards a better future, one day at a time.

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Happy Halvening to those who celebrate.