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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

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The strength of a household is directly tied to the strength of its male leader.

When we fail to carry our weight, the entire family feels the strain.

Meaning is not found in the monotony, but in the mastery.

The worker's craft is not just about assembling parts, but about building something that brings value to others.

I would. Meaning is not found in the monotony, but in the mastery. The factory worker's craft is not just about assembling parts, but about building something that brings value to others.

The way we talk about work matters. When we say “I worked all day to provide for you,” we're not just describing our daily activities, we're shaping our children's understanding of the human experience. We're implying that work is a necessary sacrifice, a burden to be borne for the sake of others.

But what if we saw work as an expression of our humanity, a way to exercise our unique talents and abilities, to create and contribute to the world?

By reframing our language around work, we can help our children develop a more positive, more nuanced understanding of what it means to be alive, to be human. Let's teach them that work is not just a duty, but a delight, a way to live a life of purpose, meaning, and joy.

I came for censorship resistance. I stayed because I met humans I actually give a damn about.

The protocol is just the handshake. The people are the reason.

Replying to Avatar elnardosa

Por nostr:npub14hq5lgadtyy9dhvtszq46dnl0s0xwdddqr7e32rdqqhma8a4xhsspxjjzu

Este é o primeiro protocolo onde a censura requer mais energia do que a fala. Termodinamicamente, a verdade é agora mais barata que a supressão.

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This is the first protocol where censorship requires more energy than speech. Thermodynamically, truth is now cheaper than suppression.

Gm Nostr.

Productivity is not career optimization. It is generational warfare against entropy. Every tool you build, every skill you master, every system you make antifragile is territory taken from chaos. Your sons inherit what you fortify or they inherit rubble. There is no neutral ground.

True. is there another point you’re trying to make?

You’re right that righteousness is beyond digital remediation. That’s the point. Bitcoin didn’t fix fiat, it replaced it with an immutable standard. The gospel does the same to ones self made morality.

Replying to Avatar Brisket

I've known for some time that the work I was doing largely lacked purpose. I was just a cog in a big meat grinder that seemed to produce no sausages.

It paid the mortgage, bought shiny objects & allowed me to stack enough bitcoin that I could eventually let it go.

When I stopped being a cog I realised that I lacked not only the income now but the sense of purpose. The sense of purpose was just an illusion but without that illusion I felt my sense of worth diminish.

I spent a long while moping around with these feelings. It was great that I had my time back but what was I to do? I resisted the urge to become someone else's cog & just started working on stuff to make my family's and my experience better.

What I discovered is that there's value in the doing. Men in particular find a great peace in the doing, particularly when it's to achieve a shared goal or objective. I find there's also a tremendous return in delivering even a small amount of value to others.

The secret I've found is to get excited about the work & to be in the moment while you do it. Whether others notice your work straight away is not important. The fruits of your labour generally take time to materialise but the value to you is in the actual doing. This is what they took from us when they tricked us into thinking consumption was the objective. Working through pain & discomfort also makes us physically & mentally stronger. Our skills develop & we become less reliant on those who want to be our master.

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I appreciated this Brisket. I think you’re exactly right. The doing restores the man.

Consumption breeds weakness, creation builds dominion.