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Avi Burra
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Chronicler of the Sovereign Age | Anarcho Surrealist
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Funny story and a beacon to the nostr/bitcoin tribe ๐Ÿ™ :

As some of you may know, I run an AI team at a large fiat health-tech company. The job has been sucking out my soul for the past few years, but I persisted because the paycheck was very comfortable and helped me keep the lights on at home. It's been brutal working 10-12 hour days under high stress, hardly being around for my teenage son's final years of childhood, and then trying to make time for my passion projects in bitcoin, nostr, and AI.

Last week, I had enough and finally did what I had been stopping myself from doing for over a year. I asked my SVP to lay me off. He laughed and said that's going to be really tough because I run a high visibilty team and the optics would be terrible if I was laid off. ๐Ÿ˜‚

I pressed him some more and told him there was no way I could continue for much longer and he finally demurred and agreed to "see what he can do" ๐Ÿคทโ€โ™‚๏ธ

I'm going to take him at his word and assume the sweet axe will fall by the end of June, plus about two months of severance. That's about as much runway I have to start making a dent with all the projects I want to dedicate my time to:

- NosFabrica: health data and interoperability on nostr

- Casa Nostra: an umbrella for all my creative projects

* "Finding Home," my Bourdain-inspired food/travel/culture show

with bitcoiners

* "July 18," the sequel to my novel 24 that's 20% written

* "Plebchain Radio," my nostr and bitcoin podcast I co-host with

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* "Rendezvous with Claude and Friends," my performance art

podcast

* "The Acceleration," my AI focused podcast

* "Waiting For Satoshi," a one-act play I'm working on, loosely

inspired by Waiting for Godot

Why am I sharing this with you?

Because Nostr is where the smartest builders, thinkers, and gentleplebs hang out. This is my tribe and I am asking for ideas and guidance. Now that I have taken the leap, how do I make sure a net appears? I want to go full steam ahead on all the projects I listed above, but also want to ensure that I'm not rug-pulling my family.

Thank you everyone for all the warm and supportive responses. It means a lot to hear all the constructive feedback ๐Ÿ™

Iโ€™ve decided to document my progress on this journey in a weekly long form post. If nothing else, I hope it will be entertaining/educational to read about how an established mid-career guy with a family to support decided to risk it all on a bitcoin and nostr passion

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You can see the unused balance on your screen. It just deducts from it on a query by query basis. I believe they accept from all mints. They donโ€™t have their own mint as of now. I chatted with the creator about all this in detail a couple of weeks ago: https://fountain.fm/episode/qqtpshw4vVuez3RLQffz

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New law of anthropology - The Shoebox Syndrome:

All in-group discussions eventually devolve into a version of the Four Yorkshiremen sketch.

Who wants to make the bitcoiner version of the sketch to demonstrate the law?

GM

There was one and one reason alone that I voted for Trump this time and that promise has been fulfilled. I fully plan on checking out for the next four years of politics (ideally forever).

Bitcoin doesnโ€™t need Trump, but Ross and Lyn certainly did.

Iโ€™m incredibly grateful for what he did for them. ๐Ÿ™

That moment when nostr:npub1f5pre6wl6ad87vr4hr5wppqq30sh58m4p33mthnjreh03qadcajs7gwt3z explained how nostr is permaculture.

Full nostr:npub14kw5ygpl6fyqagh9cnrytyaqyacg46lzkq42vz7hk8txdk49kzxs04j7y0 episode 69 drops later today ๐Ÿ‘€

https://m.primal.net/JPHn.mov