nostr.band says I have 2901 posts so Iâll be watching to see how much gets lost đ
One of the greatest songs out there is called âSpoopyâ
Looking back at this 18 months later, the possibilities that I was aware of at the time have grown enormously thanks to BAND-MAID and countless other Japanese bands that I started exploring. According to my playlist, I added 852 new songs this year and Iâm keeping an eye on hundreds of bands and looking out for new ones. So although the visual artists I follow can be counted on one hand, there is this huge army of musicians that has been added into the mix. In other words, there are now all these bands that have become important for me to support and promote in the ways that I can, which still falls under the umbrella of âart.â
This is from a thread I wrote last year that I wanted to share, because I think about this stuff all the time:
Low time preference/high time preference is a very delicate balance. You canât postpone everything forever. You have to identify things that you want to do no matter what, even if itâs relatively high time preference. Sats were already my unit of account by the end of 2017 but what I actually want to *do* with money in my lifetime is to help key artists produce their most ambitious works, so I knowingly made many decisions 2017-2019 that would sacrifice a larger stack to help those artists.
It wasnât really an option for me to do absolutely nothing and just stack sats for 5 years straight. Itâs not something I was capable of doingâIâd have felt heartless. So you could say the compromise was to stack less, but at least keep things in check to allow spend and replace. I still decline projects all the time, probably to the dismay of many artists đ Later on it became clear that I was doing way too much in 2019, so the pendulum may have swung too far in the other direction and now I start to feel like Iâm not doing enough again.
âThe famous French mathematician Henri PoincarĂ© was very interested in mathematical creativity. He describes a period of hard and seemingly fruitless effort to solve a problem, from which he took a break to join a geological expedition. As he was stepping on a bus, he made one of the most important breakthroughs of his life. The solution came to him out of nowhere, and was accompanied by a perfect certainty as to its correctness. PoincarĂ© did not claim that this was a miraculous incident. Indeed, he believed that we can solve problems when we are not consciously thinking about them.
At any moment we are aware of only a fraction of what goes on in our brain. PoincarĂ© was quite aware that creativity requires a period of conscious effort followed by a period of rest. Our unconscious mind keeps working on the problem behind the curtain. As a consequence sometimes a solution, or at least a good idea, will emerge apparently out of nowhere. A period of concerted effort to check the idea and put it in a form that is understandable to others is then necessary. PoincarĂ©'s contemporary Albert Einstein may have expressed this most succinctly when he said that âCreativity is the residue of time wastedâ.â
Great to see Fuki Kitamura has 200 more subscribers since a couple of months ago. There are a bunch of people on Twitter jumping up and down insisting she is a genius, and I agree!
Reminds me of 2021: âI donât want to buy at $38k, but next paycheck will probably be at $48k soâŠ..â