Migrating to Skiff.com is allowing me to dump/combine Proton.me, Sync.com, StandardNotes.com, and Notion.so.

- Proton is moving too slow on feature work and working on irrelevant apps like a password manager.

- Skiff, while not quite as stable/solid, has a more thoughtful feature set without any glaring gaps (Proton Calendar on iOS still doesn't let you invite folks to events, for example).

- Notion has a great collaborative wiki experience, but it's closed source and doesn't have #E2EE; they also have data mining and AI features. Skiff has a similar (still young) feature set in Skiff Pages while being open source and #E2EE.

- Skiff Pages also allows for personal notes not shared within your org, which allows me to roll in my Standard Notes usage, reducing overall cognitive load.

- Sync.com was great for an #E2EE encrypted drive for a few years but the glaring problem is that it's closed source. Skiff Drive will move all my household's family files closer to our other family office usage.

All in all, pleased with our slowly stabilizing #SovereignStack.

amethyst crashes about as frequently as it did during the first 2 play store releases.🫠

By @bpoppenheimer on twitter, an example of temporary low preference.

Before he was Han Solo or Indiana Jones, Harrison Ford was a carpenter.

In 1964, Ford moved to Hollywood to become an actor.

“But I arrived on a metaphoric bus full of people who had the same ambition,” he said.

So he came up with this plan to prevail over the competition:

As Ford spent time around the other aspiring actors on that metaphoric bus, he became aware of something:

Most of them were in a hurry.

They were in a hurry to “make it” or to make lots of money or to prove something to someone.

Whatever the reason, most were on a tight timeline.

So Ford's plan was to do the opposite: to lengthen his timeline.

To do so, Ford said, "I had to have another source of income. So I became a carpenter."

“By doing carpentry," he explained, "I was able to wait it out.

And as the years went by, the attrition rate eliminated many of those people from the competition pool until finally, there were only a few of us left on the bus from that entering class.

I always saw life that way—you just have to find a way to stick it out, to prevail.”

Takeaway 1:

Ford chose carpentry for two reasons.

First...when he first moved to Hollywood, he taught himself the basic carpentry skills needed to fix up his dilapidated house. He was immediately attracted to the process of fixing things, calling it "a form of meditation."

Second...he thought—since Hollywood is an everybody-knows-everybody kind of town—a carpentry job could lead to an acting job.

Indeed.

Ford became known as the "carpenter to the stars." His roster of clients included Francis Ford Coppola, James Caan, Richard Dreyfuss, and Joan Didion.

Most famously, in the early 1970s, Ford was building "an elaborate portico entrance" at Coppola's offices where Coppola's friend, George Lucas, was leading casting meetings for Star Wars.

One day, Ford said, “I was asked by George if I would read with the other actors. There was no indication that I might be considered for a part in the film."

"I read with about 300 actors and weeks later, they asked me if I wanted to play Han Solo."

Takeaway 2:

Ford's “stick it out” strategy is a civilian version of what military strategists refer to as "winning through attrition."

In a study of the major wars that shaped the course of history, the strategist and historian B.H. Liddell Hart found that only 2% of battles were won as a result of a direct attack.

The majority of successful armies throughout history, Hart writes, all had the “power of endurance to last.”

As Ford put it, "You just have to find a way to stick it out, to prevail.”

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"Lengthen your timeline...It always takes longer than you think it’s going to take. That’s Hofstadter’s law. And even when you take the law into account, you’re still surprised." — Ryan Holiday

Eras Outfit for Night 1 - Met Life Stadium 🫶🏼

Today I've wondered:

-Which famous historical warriors, battalions and soldiers sharpened their nails on purpose into claws for fighting purposes? (As I clip my nails hahah)

-What if Bitcoiners propose an Ethereum upgrade to Proof of Work? Half to troll, but half seriously to improve the project.

-Which wallet kernels have code that are attack vectors? Who is checking these?

-Why do we only commonly eat eggs from chickens? Why not turkeys or other birds or hard shelled giving animals? 🤔

someone beat me to it <\3 nostr:note14apfrkutpgz7whgduk7qu5x6de7h8emj4mq9hv4c9e63268suqwqel5huw

found my dream apartment

pray for me

Spin up #BlockstreamGreen and drop a Liquid address in the reply to this note to go into the draw to win a B-JADE token that you can redeem for one #BlockstreamJade on the Blockstream Store.

All entries will get zapped ⚡

We are fighting mass extinction 🔥 🌎

I haven’t tried liquid network in awhile, but given the high fees, I am planning to move some sats onto liquid. Anybody know why sideswipe requires 102 confirmations?

I will find another way to peg in. Or won’t use it.

Narrator: But he was not excited to engage with the community, as this is still his only post, he has not replied to anyone, and has not verified anywhere else that this is even a legitimate account. nostr:note1k9ev8f6ugdphs7m9jtjdadw64t8fwyqaqj0uh2skys8usf00z3esnxpqel

It's a shame, I think it has some better points than LN.

- Cold storage capacity.

- Privacy

Maybe it is not effective to transfer 1 satoshi, but it is effective to substitute the use of bitcoin in times of high fees.

It is also very cheap to switch between L-btc and BTC with sideswap.

Apparently people don't like federations.

:(