good morning nostr, freedom tech is hope 🫡

Good morning and pura vida, Nostr! It's time to create notes and send zaps! 💜🤙🏻🫂

Who is the midwit who spent US$44 billion to buy one of the most recognisable brands in history, only to kill it and replace it with an X?

Between Twitter moving to a dystopian hell-hole with the X re-brand or everyone talking about World Coin, I just can't do it today.

I need to be on Nostr WAY more often. Sorry to bring it up here...

Does anyone else find it kind of senseless and ironic the # of people trying to engagement farm on Twitter by complaining about Twitter or X?

Doesn’t that make it stronger?

Reminds me of all the people complaining about inflation, governments, or control while primarily saving in fiat and ignoring #Bitcoin.

Never heard of Twitter. Are you talking about X?

can we get a cute pet thread going? 💜

gm nostr. what’s the plan today.

Trying to explain Bitcoin to my grandparents is like teaching a cat to do calculus. Just let them think it's magic internet money and move on. 😹💸 #Bitcoin #GenerationGap

good morning nostr, momentum is building, nostr will become the standard gradually then suddenly 🫡

I rarely lose my temper, but whenever I do a couple times per year, my writing gets 10x as much reach and likes and shares, and gets basically immortalized. But I'm rarely happy about it when it does.

I still think about this a lot in terms of how I choose to use social media- with reach comes responsibility.

It's both a bad thing and a good thing. On one hand, it's not great that posts based on a combination of emotion and reason get *way* better reach than ones based on more pure reason alone. For "clicks" the best thing I could do for a given post is lose my temper and go all-out on something.

On the other hand, the rare cases where I lose my temper are based on serious built-up frustrations over months. I'm frustrated about something, keep holding it back, and then something becomes intolerable. My socially-compliant self-censorship all unravels at once, not perfectly, but with a clear aspect of *deep* honesty. And people see that honesty because it reflects their own. So it spreads.

So, most of the time, I write carefully, and I know my audience comes from multiple different backgrounds, literally from Indonesian farmers to Wall Street institutional billionaires, and I try to politely move the Overton window from within the Overton window. But a couple times per year, I lose my temper and post my emotional thoughts, which in some ways are more honest, but are also not exactly my ideal self-actualized self.

I end up being grateful for both my constant attempt at control and my rare tempers, because somewhere in the middle is my truth. That blend between controlled reason and built-up emotion is really hard to manage in an era of digital media and semi-immortalized content.

Anyway, I'll post this random stuff on Nostr, not Twitter. You guys and girls get the real thoughts because you're here.

“The reason most people fail instead of succeed is they trade what they want most for what they want at the moment.” - Napoleon Bonaparte

What happened to Andreas?