Got another big storm coming through and needed to get a sump pump installed under the house, but was feeling a lot of resistance to doing it. I was complaining to my 9 y/o son who proceeded to tell me,

“We’ll, you made me do my homework and I didn’t want to do it, but when I was done I was happy it was out of the way, so I’m gonna make you do that so you’ll be happy tomorrow when it’s raining hard and it won’t be flooding under the house.”

So he held the light for me while I crawled around under the house and got it all situated, and helped me run the hose out so that now we should be all square.

It was just a really nice moment with my son that I never shared anything like that with my dad, so it just felt really nice to know that my family can really be a mode of support and motivation for me that I never really got to experience as a child. Having a family is a nice way to get to rewrite those kinds of experiences for ourselves in meaningful and wholesome ways like that.

I know ink has been spilled on this topic ad nauseum, by writers more knowledgeable and eloquent. But something really clicked into place for me this week, and I wanted to share.

Humanity was trapped in an endless cycle of states rising and falling. The 'good times creates weak men' meme.

States are incentivised to grow their power in order to justify their existence, because each state is nothing if not a collection of people who are self-interested. But that power must be granted by the populace.

Governments are literally incentivised to break societal bonds, to sap our strength and will, -to make us weak- so that we are inclined to grant them ever more power. If the average person took maximum responsibility for their own life, family, and community, what space is there left for a government to step in and LARP like they're solving problems?

We've been driven to this abhorrent softness over the course of generations, because this is what happens every cycle, in every land, with every people. Because we're flawed, and fearful, and imperfect.

But now we have Bitcoin, and Nostr... And I think these two things will give us enough space to break that cycle and realize our potential long term.

If you have young kids - take a look at them. When we are all gone and they are spending time with their grandchildren, the world will be a blindingly bright place.

GM

ANY BUSINESS VENTURE IS ONLY SATS FLOW SUCCESSFUL IF THE CUMULATIVE SATS FLOW GENERATED MORE THAN OFFSETS THE FOREGONE SATS FLOW FROM TAKING THE LABOR AND CAPITAL RISK OF SUCH VENTURE (SATS LOW OPPORTUNITY COST)

What are the first three extensions that you install right after installing the browser?

I hate myself more than the amount of money I have will cover.

GM nostr. This is my first note!

just made this new meme

lots of hard work

All of my major platforms and services are so inundated with spam now that they are becoming worthless.

I get flooded with spam phone calls now. I literally get 10 before noon every single day. To the point that I just don’t answer my phone and it’s permanently on silent or I can’t even record the podcast. Thus, the very tool I use to stay in touch with people has become increasingly non viable for that very purpose.

Seriously, how do we fix this shit. It’s fucking astonishingly bad

I quit my civil engineering job a few months back and have been seriously comsidering trying to help out a bitcoin/nostr company if I could.

I would ideally look for part time work I could do remotely, even if it was kinda like a freelance setup where I could just be paid by task.

My background was working a lot of CAD softwares but I doubt they translates much to the bitcoin space. I'm a good problem solver and great with mathematics!

Anyone have any ideas of how I could assist in the bitcoin or nostr space or anything materials I should start studying to develop skills that would be relevant?

Appreciate it.