From basically “0 talent for handywork” to this at 8m height.

Proud of myself, again. Scaffolding was torn down as well. Snow and frost my come now.

Props to my neighbor for showing me the ropes.

Hidden Pivot door and slat wall paneling.

Once we add the slat panel on the left side it will be virtually invisible.

Wood Species: Rift White Oak

#workinprogress #custom #millwork #pivotdoor #riftwhiteoak

I wonder what percentage of people have never seen the real night sky, and only know the washed out imitation you see living in cities?

#asknostr

I love elderflowers!

Have a very happy new year Brisket!

I could care less about "arresting the Somali's"

Go after the people who let this happen

Anything less is lip service

GM

This little baby frog got knocked off his perch when I harvested some elderflowers a week ago. You might have to zoom in to spot him.

He's clearly climbed the 2 metre stem again for a reason. Maybe he's munching on small flies attracted to the flowers?

Very cute.

Beautiful blue skies today with no haze or clouds. Happy new year 💚

Physical fitness is political. It’s part of the stack. Sound money, free speech, physical capability, independent thinking. All of it together makes you harder to capture.

So here’s the thing about banking apps. (This is bullshit btw)

About a year ago, I started down a quest to remove google, yt, fb & microsoft etc from my phone.

A de-googled phone is becoming incompatible with several of my banking and credit card apps so keep deleting the offended apps.

So far so good…

Just the other day, my iPad pro 9 (which is maybe 4yo…) will not run the Chase app with iOS 16.7 and I cant update past 16.7.

My solution keeps just being, “I guess Ill stop using that app”

Its no skin off my ass to use a different bank card. Fuck them.

🧡👊🏻🍻

It's new years eve and for the first time in years I have no resolutions. I feel settled, loved and that I have enough.

physical bitcoin should have a significant premium compared to paper bitcoin

30% of the US still believe the dollar is backed by gold.

I don't know what a blossom server is, and at this point, I'm afraid to ask.

I’ve seen something similar form on leaves too. Even more bizarre looking. Have always called it hoarfrost.

Needle ice. Water from the soil is drawn upward when it reaches the cold air, it freezes instantly, adding to the growing ice column. More water continues to rise from below, freezing layer by layer and pushing the structure upward like this.

2 days left in 2025…

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

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.

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.

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.