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That takes courage!

With what I’m always struggling with is following my gut feelings and then decide to what to pay attention too. It always more than just 1 thing and it’s always more than 1 feeling. But it’s my compass. But reading it is quite hard sometimes. So what I often do is try to let it read (as a external navigator) by others and find the encouragement to just do things and avoid to overthink stuff (which is a common pitfall for me).

In the end it’s self-knowledge what keeps you in line with your purpose.

having vision and then taking steps to achieve it is huge, you’re on the right path

all the best 🙌🏻

Good for you my brother! Best of luck on pursuing your passions!🫡💪💪💪

best luck! in my experience it’s best to focus on your personal health after a burnout and then locking again on a project that you feel excited about

Short answer: action leads to clarity. Just go for it, and the path will become clear

Long answer: probably best done on a podcast… 😜

So stoked to see you push forward towards the direction YOU want to go on YOUR terms. Being a trail-blazer is never easy, but, God willing, the outcome will be extremely rewarding.

Praying for blessings for you and your family. 🫡

Good luck.

Enjoy the extra time with your family.

Love it focus your time&energy on bitcoin&nostr combined with your dedication and proof of work everything is going to turn out awesome. Enjoy life on the bitcoin standard 🧡🗽💜

I want to do similar have several ideas for a novel and a number of businesses I run where I want to incorporate Bitcoin in the operations

You cannot make sure, in any meaningful way, that the net appears. Freedom and uncertainty go hand in hand. All you can do is give it your best shot(s)*... and have faith 🙏

* shots because some will miss. Don't cry over a missed shot, take another one.

Godspeed, brother 🤠

Funny story and a beacon to the nostr/bitcoin tribe 🙏 :

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. 😂

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" 🤷‍♂️

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.

incredibly cool project for sure. one q for nostr:npub130mznv74rxs032peqym6g3wqavh472623mt3z5w73xq9r6qqdufs7ql29s folks: does one get the "change" cashu tokens in the response in case the query didn't spend it all? do you accept ecash from any mint, or is there a routstr mint? thanks frens.

I think there are too many plans you have. If you do a couple less and concentrate on the others and dedice more time to them, something nice will come up for you too. And your family can't stay broke with a boss like you friend 😉🤝 good luck

Good luck!

Enjoyed your film at BFF.

Get out of the fiat world and you will fly 10 times higher.

We have obligations, but only one life. You do you. Especially "nosfabrica" and "finding home" sound interesting to me.

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since you asked for advice.. prepare for failure. do you have more than just this severance runway? your failure plan should be a hard cutoff timeframe and maybe some extra time to recover before back to the grind.

I think it's all good ideas, having done this myself many times and not regretted it.. the only idea that ever worked was bitcoin. even that felt like a failure for 5 years..

save hard, spend wise, dont go negative.. keep good standing with your contacts in business world.

Dude, that is ballsy and fantastic, and I know you’re going to love following your passion wherever this journey takes you.

One thing I can absolutely say is that if something doesn’t feel right, you need to move on.

💜⚡️🤙

It's already fixed by the Fountain team while I had contact with nostr:npub1unmftuzmkpdjxyj4en8r63cm34uuvjn9hnxqz3nz6fls7l5jzzfqtvd0j2 :)

Sending you the sats back with a zap ;)

I’m thinking about stopping at Steak ‘n Shake this weekend and paying with bitcoin. All of this is great and normal.

The slightly embarrassing part is that I’ll be wearing armor and chainmail because I’m going to a ren faire. I have to go inside to pay with bitcoin right? 😂