Apparently you can put something called Ubuntu touch on it. Which I assume is an open source iPhone style OS.

And therefore can do 'all the things'.

But yes, I'm quite happy with my de-googled pixel.

I don't think putting one self first is to be selfish. For me, being selfish is only thinking about onself, with no regard to others. To take, without reciprocate, etc....

I BOUGHT ALL THE DIPS.

2 days left in 2025…

What 2025 goals are you working on completing during the final hours of this year?

Creation is not just an act.

It’s a confession.

What you create is an honest reflection of who you are.

It carries your fingerprints whether you want it to or not. Your values leak into it. Your discipline shows up. Your clarity, or lack of it, becomes visible.

Calm minds create simplicity. Honest people build things that feel clean

If you don’t like what you’re creating, don’t start with the product. Start with the person. Clean up the thinking. Sharpen the values. Raise the standards you apply when no one is watching.

Because in the end, what you create is who you are.

Gladwell can be so insightful. We used to talk about chapter 8 from Outliers at the learning center where I taught math and critical thinking. For example, we noticed that addition problems involving 7 tended to be a problem for students whose dominant learning sense was auditory. The auditory learners doing 7+5 would often give an answer of 13. Because they encoded information best via their ears, the fact that se-ven has two syllables created a “bubble” of uncertainty around 7 in their minds. If they spoke Mandarin where all of the single digit numbers are 1 syllable each, that issue would not have existed.

We used to joke that those people were a jack of all trades & master of none.

Carol Dwek wrote a book on Mindset about 20 years ago & I found it useful at the time. She proposed that people tended to have either a growth mindset or a fixed mindset. Later many corporations picked it up & pushed out a rather crude summary of it but few actually read the book. They basically inferred that a growth mindset was good & that people with a fixed mindset needed corporate reprogramming. Cringe

Essentially the growth mindset people believed that they could do anything with some effort & persistence. Fixed mindset people believed that they could either do something or they couldn't. The fixed mindset people typically had that belief because they were naturally good or bad at almost anything they attempted. It says a lot about the power of your belief IMO. It also neglects the fact that some people just don't have the capacity to perform certain tasks no matter how hard or long they work at it. I've seen many such cases.

I shifted my mindset as a result of reading the book but I also knew that I don't really want to do everything & I don't want to do anything forever. I started applying a cost benefit calculation to the things I threw myself into. Yes I could do it, but is it worth the effort required to master & how quickly would that skill be depreciated? I cut short my career in software development after 6 months even though I had the degree. The juice just wasn't worth the squeeze, it wasn't for me.

You should always play to your strengths but also be aware of your weaknesses.

This was interesting to ponder.

On one hand, we shouldn't withdraw from opportunities to reinforce points of weakness. Focusing only on strengths to the exclusion of strengthening weaknesses is a risky play. One might not get burned by one's weaknesses. One might be able to leverage the economy to convert value earned from strengths into value paid for coverage of areas of weakness. It mostly depends on how the value streams balance. If the income stream is high and the expenditure stream is low, this strategy can pay off. Often times the people in the wealthier echelons of society are elite at one, maybe two things.

This, however, creates problems. When someone is amazing at one thing and garbage at everything else, that person is "top heavy". They're not well rounded. They're dependent upon numerous people who they must pay in order to enable them to focus exclusively on their forte. This creates the need for trusted third party authorities or, at the very least, it creates the need to solicit bids from multiple vendors to compare/contrast bid details and pricing.

I'm prone to think that the sweet spot Goldilocks zone entails the Pareto principle. Let's say that I can learn/acquire 80% of a subject in 1 month, but it will take me 4 months to acquire the other 20%. It would be 4x better for me to learn 80% of 5 different subjects across 5 months (80% x 5 = 400%) than it would be for me to spend 5 months learning 100% of 1 subject.

I think it's worth it to pursue the final 20% on a few subjects, but perhaps that's best done on an 'as needed' basis.

Tried to zap you just now. Not sure if it will work. Zaps are so frustrating. I'm making progress on reworking my NOSTR setup. First step was getting my node and lightning node better set up. Still got a little bit of work to do there but progress has been made. NOSTR wallets and nsec management are next on my list.

The 2025 news cycle

@Axios

Oh man that's amazing. Sounds like you made it through the obstacle course relatively unscathed

Yeah I was at a similar place 2.5 years ago.

I hated my job & was tired of the grind.

Bitcoin was below $30k.

I stopped stacking, accumulated a little bit of fiat & quit the fiat life. Initially it was just going to be a break. I didn't have enough Bitcoin to retire. I had a general feeling of lack.

I spent a lot of time mediating & reflecting. I cancelled all my subscription services & my last insurance policy (my home insurance). I stopped outsourcing everything. I did my own plumbing, cooking, electrical, I serviced & repaired our vehicles. I was busy but my expenses dropped to almost nothing. I got more confident that I wouldn't have to return to work again.

I didn't have enough bitcoin to retire on yet but if Bitcoin did what I thought it would I had plenty. I'm basically a massive permabull.

I got my time & attention back. I lived like a pauper & felt like a king.

I still feel like I have enough Bitcoin. My conviction is unwavering but I knew that if I was wrong I'd have to find a source of income.

Had I known how epoch 5 was going to unfold I probably would have acted differently. I would definitely have more bitcoin but I'd probably still feel like I didn't have enough.

No regrets at all, what I received was priceless. I sincerely hope that you can all get to feel this one day.

💚🫂

True the people are more chill up there.

But you’re still subject to Canberra’s karenisms; can’t escape what net zero policy will do to Australian’s energy bills by moving interstate.

Going down the bitcoin rabbit hole lead me into a mindset of not trusting anyone. It was a tough mindset to hold on to while I was still in it. I've learned to lean into trust much more since I realized the following.

The trust required to get into a car and drive down the street already extends to thousands, or even tens of thousands of people that I will never meet.

Everyone involved in the design, manufature, and inspection of the vehicles we drive and the infrastructure we drive on. Everyone driving their vehicles and all the same for each of those vehicles, plus the supply chain that ensures the quality of the fuel that goes into these vehicles.

Have you ever verified for yourself that the gasoline in the pump meets quality standards? Unfortunately much of it is full of corn syrup these days, but all of this stuff functions and is affected by money.

When we can trust that money is sound we don't need to verify all the rest because it's directly linked to proof of work.

Counter intuitively when money requires trust, trust breaks down.

That you did.

My work relied on my network in Melbourne and once I was ready to leave that, I wasn’t going to stay in Aus; I needed out of not just the cold, but the Karen-dominated/prison warden culture.

The whole “I want Bitcoin to moon but also crash so I can buy more” thing isn’t really a paradox. It’s just your brain operating on two different timelines at once.

When you want number go up, you’re thinking about your existing stack. When you want it to dump, you’re thinking about the stack you wish you had. Most of us are stuck somewhere in the middle, never quite done accumulating.

The real issue is that if Bitcoin does what we think it will, you never really stop wanting more. There’s no magical price point where you suddenly feel like you have enough sats. You’ll always

look back and think “damn, I should’ve bought more at [insert any previous price].”

Maybe that tension is actually healthy. It keeps you from getting complacent. The second you stop feeling torn about the price is probably when you’ve either stacked enough or lost the plot entirely.

Keep stacking, stay grounded, and don’t overthink it. Wanting both things just means you’re still in the game.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Go to the gym

💯

This is my take as well

Never change the core essence of who you are just to please a woman.

That’s not love. It’s self-betrayal.

When you abandon yourself, attraction dies and resentment follows.

If you haven't, try scraping back the bark and exposing more of the cambium for the part of the stem thats going into the ground.

Im still in experimental phases. Aiming for a set it and forget it method. I had about 20% success poking them into wicking beds in the fall. (Very easy).

Trying this set in distilled water. Hoping to reduce the amount of water changes vs using my well water. I may take half and poke them into an ebb and flow bin.

In the spring I'll do another round poking directly into garden soil.

The great thing is every success is about a $10 profit / savings as i build out mine and clients food systems.

Victimhood is one of the most difficult behaviours to manage

Firstly in yourself. “Oh poor me”. It’s unhelpful at best, dangerous at worst. A hand break on action. The most annoying trigger being the “compare and despair”…

But secondly, in others. So frustrating. People literally play things their way, the victim, due to what happens around them. It always allows for blame to be on others. There’s no true accountability of emotion

😤

Are there any butchers or farmers in the UK on Nostr?!

Most people don’t reject Bitcoin because it’s too risky.

They reject it because it forces them to reexamine everything.

And that hurts.

GM beautiful Nostriches 💜

“Our true purpose in life is not something we are here to DO. Rather, it is something we are here to BE.

It is a quality or inner virtue that we bring to everything we do in life. To find our purpose is to find a ‘nobility of spirit’ that pervades our entire life.

When we have found this, what we DO is of less importance because the DOING may change.

However, our BEING is the one thing that will never change. It alone makes us unshakable, stable and radiant. We BECOME the purpose of our life.”

The Art of Contemplation

- Richard Rudd

😌💓🧬🦋

people still chasing the free lunch ? lmao