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No solutions, only trade-offs. Walking towards a better internet since 882,690. Inspired by #SovEng

Few understand this.

In this dialogue:

- What is this No Solutions thing anyway?

- Why dialogue and distributed cognition is so important

- Why is nostr exiting for developers?

- Evolution, Life, and nostr

- What is the perfect nostr app, and why can't there be THE perfect nostr app?

- Why there is no "global" view in nostr

- Impossible problems vs. possible (but still hard) problems

- Blossom, blossom, and more blossom

- Zooko's Triangle

- Freedom Tech Building Blocks

- NIP-60/61, NIP-89

- Email vs ICQ

- Accepting constraints & moving forward

- Nostr has data integrity, but no data guarantees

- Bitcoin as an extreme RAID system

- Fault tolerance vs. efficiency

- "Build the infrastructure, don't run it."

- eCash fixes 402

- Everything in nostr can be one-click

- There's infinite nsecs (and they are free!)

- The magic of the nostr view-only mode

- The Local-first movement

- How to monetize without putting yourself in the middle?

- RoboSats as an example of open-source monetization

- The YouTube like count is a lie

In this dialogue:

- Why starting ugly and shipping early is hard

- The ugliest thing that Pablo ever shipped

- "Happiness is shipping"

- Make it real first, you can make it pretty later

- Getting into the habit of shipping

- Highlighter and the hang-up of shipping something big

- How nostr allows you to have cash flow from the get-go

- #value4value for artists and devs

- What DHH & 37Signals got right