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Persistent provocateur of deliberate thought | Advocate for radical individual sovereignty | Occasional composer | Reformed Christian Need a good Bitcoin jam? 👇🏻 https://wavlake.com/album/257a5d0f-bb0f-48a0-8875-5a2624c955a6

Dang. As long as you’re grinding bro. You’ll find your niche. Take opportunities as they come, experience in general is underrated.

Afternoon Uno. How’s the job hunt?

Live to Work or Work to Live?

Society has fed us the lie that work is just a grind for money, status, and stuff.

Most people live to work, chasing materialism and approval, and they end up empty, burned out, depressed.

Work isn’t just a paycheck. When we work to live, using our effort to create value, help others, and fulfill our purpose, we still face struggle, but it’s destruction by JOY, not despair.

We’ve been sold a culture that confuses survival with fulfillment. True meaning comes when work serves life, not the other way around.

Chasing approval makes you careful when you should be curious. Spaces like Bitcoin and Nostr don’t bend to approval or authority.

You can’t fake proof of work, and you can’t fake honesty either. Both demand time, effort, and exposure. I’d rather be corrected a hundred times than admired for pretending. Appearance fades. Proof and truth endure.

You’re right on path. lol

Honest perspective. People who actually think and aren’t afraid to say what they see. Laughter is good medicine here as well.

Less “look at me” content. More “let’s figure this out together” content.

What pulls you in?

For those who keep wondering, I’m gonna put this plain and simple for you. And whoever wants to add to this may.

You’re invisible because you’re silent.

Your notes hit the relays. They exist. But you’re posting like you’re journaling, then wondering why nobody’s connecting with you.

There is no algorithm hiding you. You’re hiding yourself.

Human behavior hasn’t changed. People respond to people who engage. You want to be seen? Be social. Actual social, not “post and disappear” social.

Stop dropping 🤙 emojis like you’re collecting stamps. That’s not conversation. That’s performative participation.

Start real conversations. Reply to bigger accounts. Reply to smaller ones. Ask questions. Challenge ideas. Share your actual perspective. Make people feel like you’re there.

Your reply to post ratio reveals everything. If you’re posting more than you’re replying, you’re broadcasting, not building community.

The beauty of your world? Nobody sees it because you won’t show them. You won’t engage enough to let people in.

Nostr doesn’t owe you an audience. You build one through repeated, genuine interaction. One conversation at a time.

Stop wondering why it’s not working. Start doing the work that’s always worked: talking to people.

Now go start working. Or don’t, but don’t blame anyone else.