I like your contracting and development content! I can't zap you though

Under the Code of Hammurabi (1754 BCE), commoners (mushkenu) had property rights but with limits. They could own land, homes, businesses, and slaves, pass down inheritance, and enter contracts.

However, they faced taxes, debt risks, and state control over land. Ownership was possible—but not absolute.

#History #AncientLaws #PropertyRights

I deal with a lot of Dentists. So long story short, my clientele went on vacation!

I'm not going to lie, I also started a side gig reselling merchandise (really as a way to get my hands on bitcoin) and I kind of lost focus on my pipeline.... Big no no

Im in Medical IT sales. Yea, thats exactly right. I love serving others and getting them the solution they need most but so many people have a mental block on sales people because of the bad ones out there.

I hit a slump towards end of 2024.

Army reserves and Sales on the civilian side

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🤯 well when you put it they way it's genius!

I wish I was a full time writer. Not there yet, but its the dream.

I experience this every time my 2 year old wags a finger at me and booms, "NO!" when I tell her its time to take a bath.

Being aggressive is easy. She's a quarter my size, I could punt her across the house.

Being calm and collected is difficult, I could teach her how to regulate her outbursts and why, sometimes, its important to do things we don't want to do.

Some of the clients do a pretty good job showing longform now, but you still have to go looking for it.

If you use primal you can find my articles under the reads tab on my profile. In yakihonne you can find them under the articles tab on my profile. Not sure if the other mobile clients have access to long form.

Dang, is it that time already? It starts in late FEB right?

Absolutely. I'll say this, I'm a writer I've been on NOSTR now almost a year. I stopped posting my writing to Medium and substack because I felt I was trying too hard to play a game hitting the standards and metrics set by those platforms.

While my writing hasn't gotten a tidal wave of zaps on Nostr, I still think this is a better format for writing online. I'm just not sure many people visit nostr for long form articles just yet. It almost feels as if it turns people off?

What do you think?

You hit the nail on the head man. There is entirely toooooo much to delve into with bitcoin and if someone is not interested diving into rabbit holes there's ways to guide them into tripping into it.

A big one to fit in this is our approach to our relationships. We cant control other people but we can control how much we communicate and how intentional our actions toward our friends and family.

I love everything you noted, just noticed the interpersonal connection piece of a wholistic life missing!

I hear that.

Before "Mine" There Was "Ours"—But We Still Crave Ownership

No one enters this world alone. We don’t simply appear—we are born into the first unit of human society: the family. Before civilization, survival was the only priority. No deeds, no property lines, no titles—just tribes bound together, roaming the earth in search of food, water, and shelter.

Ownership, as we know it today, barely existed. Resources were fleeting, and the idea of personal property had little meaning when everything was about collective survival. What belonged to the tribe, by extension, belonged to all.

And yet, deep within us, the desire to claim something as ours has always existed. A tool, a shelter, a piece of land—something that gives us security, control, and identity. Even in the most communal societies, the longing to carve out a space of our own has persisted.

The world may have changed, but the balance between ours and mine still shapes how we live, work, and build our futures.

Do you think our need for ownership is innate, or have we been conditioned to crave it?

#HumanNature #Ownership #Survival #TribalMindset #Psychology #Society

That's actually a really cool concept. So everything else would stay the same, this would just give athletes a better opportunity to make money for their efforts.

Playing devil's advocate though, wouldn't the all-stars take all the zaps and the average pros who've worked so hard to get there would get less because the rent seekers would notice that this concept exists. It would be kind of what occurs with Waiters in the USA where their base pay is ass because the expectation is decent tips.

How would you go about it? Like having all spectators pay into a prize pool? So the money funnels to the athletes as opposed to sponsors? But it costs a lot of money to put these events on so how would all the behind the scenes people get compensated?

We are still sooo early. I'm only now hearing some friends and family talking about buying bitcoin but they're treating it like a hot stock, like an Nvidea or something. They have no idea about the underlying tech, about why money is broken, none of it.

And quite frankly, that may be too much for most people to grasp. I mean, us bitcoiners turn this into a PHD curriculum level rabbit hole.

While that may be a feature it is also a bug against mass adoption in the truest sense. True adoption may come after our generation passes "financial" knowledge down to the next generation.

We are at the ivory tower stage. Many people have put in the work to gain the knowledge, now that knowledge has to be distilled enough for the layperson to pick it up and run with it.

Interested in how you help businesses. I run a small reseller business aside from my writing. I've gotten to the point where bitcoin is my primary reserve asset. All retained earnings get converted to bitcoin.

Issues I'm running into:

1. My inventory supplier only accepts cash. Rather than sell my reserve bitcoin only to get it back after I make profits I take a loan against the bitcoin to get kore inventory. Then pay back as Cost of goods sold accumulates. This means I'm always tied to cash somehow. Not sure what can be done there besides finding a bitcoin supplier. Time will fix that hurddle

2. NO ONE spends their bitcoin. The people who want it don't want to sell it and the people who don't give a damn don't want to deal with the hassle of buying it to sell it right away, even with a discount.

Ultimately I'm running a btc standard business only in that I have a btc reserve. What have you seen or advise other businesses do?