The more (emotionally) sober I become, the more my life becomes a trip.

What’s your best 2 sentence max explanation of zaps to a total newbie?

Before Nostr, I didn’t know what pura vida meant and I didn’t use hug emojis.

Lol. 🫂🫂🫂

The power of a communication protocol where 1) you genuinely want it to succeed but 2) it still doesn’t get a ton of reach at the moment. You post your heart there.

I rarely lose my temper, but whenever I do a couple times per year, my writing gets 10x as much reach and likes and shares, and gets basically immortalized. But I'm rarely happy about it when it does.

I still think about this a lot in terms of how I choose to use social media- with reach comes responsibility.

It's both a bad thing and a good thing. On one hand, it's not great that posts based on a combination of emotion and reason get *way* better reach than ones based on more pure reason alone. For "clicks" the best thing I could do for a given post is lose my temper and go all-out on something.

On the other hand, the rare cases where I lose my temper are based on serious built-up frustrations over months. I'm frustrated about something, keep holding it back, and then something becomes intolerable. My socially-compliant self-censorship all unravels at once, not perfectly, but with a clear aspect of *deep* honesty. And people see that honesty because it reflects their own. So it spreads.

So, most of the time, I write carefully, and I know my audience comes from multiple different backgrounds, literally from Indonesian farmers to Wall Street institutional billionaires, and I try to politely move the Overton window from within the Overton window. But a couple times per year, I lose my temper and post my emotional thoughts, which in some ways are more honest, but are also not exactly my ideal self-actualized self.

I end up being grateful for both my constant attempt at control and my rare tempers, because somewhere in the middle is my truth. That blend between controlled reason and built-up emotion is really hard to manage in an era of digital media and semi-immortalized content.

Anyway, I'll post this random stuff on Nostr, not Twitter. You guys and girls get the real thoughts because you're here.

Seize the day.

Bask in nature.

Take deep breaths.

Drink the sunlight.

Take a walk.

Contemplate the universe.

Marvel at life.

Subvert the State.

Hello (under)world !

Diasabuse yourself of the harmful notion that modern science will find some way to allow you to live forever.

You will not live forever.

Like all human beings before you, you are going to die.

You are dying right now in fact.

But are you living?

That’s the question.

Okay I'm here, now what do I do? 🥴

Hello world

#nostr #foodstr #chefstr #grownostr #zap #zapathon #plebchain

"I figured out I was wrong so I changed my mind"

#1 life hack

The XP board design changed where there’s more likelihood of an error, and also if there is an error, it doesn’t only hash on the available boards. It just completely stops hashing. The PCB temp sensors are also triggered about 10°C cooler than on the j Pro. If they work perfectly at 100% uptime, golden machines. The problem is that they rarely are able to 🙃

If you have 240v power (at a decent rate), I think the Antminer S19j Pro is probably the best miner you can run right now overall. Yes this beats out the S19 XP on my books. Haven’t experimented enough with the S19j Pro+, but that’s my thoughts. I like Whatsminers, but they’re a different ballgame in my opinion.

I do not agree with the premise that #bitcoin self custody is difficult.

Power on the device, it generates a key, you write it down and keep it safe.

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