GM
You can be loud and proud. That's fine.
It doesn't make you better than others though.
I'm surprised to see such a 'normie' perspective from nostr:nprofile1qqsp4lsvwn3aw7zwh2f6tcl6249xa6cpj2x3yuu6azaysvncdqywxmgpz4mhxue69uhk2er9dchxummnw3ezumrpdejqzenhwden5te0ve5kcar9wghxummnw3ezuamfdejj7mnsw43rzun5d3ckxcfcwgmxzatev9mn2m34dqekcdf5xgexgmf5wde8jdty0fnx2ef5xcunven3v5u8xdn3va6kg6mnxajx5arxwvlkyun0v9jxxctnws7hgun4v5dpfm4n.
That's what makes nation-state loving such a 'normie' perspective for me.
Well, I guess I don't feel the need to put my country of birth in my handle...
I think you may need to examine the definition of 'objective'.
A friend of mine (an immigrant) told me "America is a great place to be a winner... but not everyone can be one."
I used to live in Mexico for 3 years. It's a beautiful land with humble, funny, and hard-working people.
No bullshit health and safety laws, but that has pitfalls too. I picked up some stories (and even wrote a few).
It's not a competition, but if you work remotely, Mexico is a more attractive place to live than the US for me.
Why do you try to farm outrage zaps by shitting on other nation-states?
Idris Elba is an actor, not a serious politician. He thinks he is helping (but is gravely mistaken).
Bitcoin should bring us together, not give us the platform to score 'culture war' points by lazily reposting the videos of others.
Do better.
There is a lovely pace to that book. It's what stayed with me more than anything.
Books have the ability to rewire our sense of time, and Siddharta did that for me.
Chapter 12 — Riding a bike
Here is a list of work-related things I never thought I’d do:
* Create video courses
* Build a website (or six)
* Host a podcast / livestream
* Hire an assistant (+ fire an assistant)
* Sell products and services on Zoom calls
* Become a social media influencer (sort of)
* Help dozens of clients get published or promoted
* Run a paid community with 100+ members (not OnlyFans)
After all, I was just a lowly English teacher.
Before 2019, I wrote lesson plans, taught classes, and marked homework.
Well, after switching to online classes offering writing help, I began to learn more about how coaching differs from teaching and how digital businesses differ from teaching via online platforms.
I learned that a coaching session has no fixed price.
Value is completely subjective.
Everything depends on framing, strategies, and results.
I was liberated from the idea that my time was worth 10 Euros an hour, or 20, or even 250!
All of the items on the list occurred within three years or so. They were terrifying and difficult at first, but practice makes better, and once you get more comfortable with each process, it’s like riding a bike.
To improve more quickly, I took courses on marketing and business management, read a ton, joined helpful online communities, posted daily on socials, and, most importantly, I got used to failing fast.
The benefit of an online coaching business is that you start with a laptop and very few overheads. The only investment you make is your time, so you need to adapt quickly and test the market a lot.
I never thought I’d enjoy making videos, penning articles about language, and spending so much time on LinkedIn. But I did. My posts got millions of views (combined), and I attracted a little army of followers.
Being my own boss was scary and rewarding in equal measure. The highs are 10 times higher than when you are working for someone else; the lows are devastating (more on this in a future chapter).
What I loved most was the actual coaching: getting on weekly calls with clients, giving advice and learning from community members, editing great work, and getting messages about struggles and successes.
The problem with a coaching business is the ‘business’ part. You spend 90% of your time doing marketing, sales, and admin, and only 10% doing what you love.
How did my own writing fit into all of this?
1. Growing my skills in content writing — course materials, articles, and web copy.
2. Using LinkedIn as a creative outlet — writing funny slideshows about badgers and awful corpo influencers.
3. Continuing my narrative writing — I prepared to publish my second book of short fiction.
More on my second book next time…
Have you started a digital business?
What did you love/hate about it?
#unphiltered
Whenyou own 0.01 BTC, and you tell your family that your financial portfolio grew by 175% in the last 3 years...
https://blossom.primal.net/9c0b71bf8842088e7fa07936f562c00217804f3bf962a90fa3fdb7601a8c93ee.mp4
A fitting day to do the first nostr:nprofile1qqsfpncy8ps7tddfjukt0dff5ka8rvs46mg7x9x8f824ymkpx0cakucpr3mhxue69uhky6t5vdhkjmnhv9kxktnwdaehgu339e3k7mgprfmhxue69uhkx6rpwshxy6t5vdhkjmnhv9kxktn0wfnsgsvj68 or the year.
Building the nostr:nprofile1qqsfdlpf7dmyvrgyqt8t8lhz6mejvnytudnqf4sdpeqnny2u79xxhfsgkpg6p community one step at a time.
GN.
GY!
(Good Year)
Chapter 11 - The Covid Diaries
I'm thankful for the Covid summer. Yes, there were nonsensical rule changes, paranoid neighbours, death, sadness, and constant media updates, but when you have to stay put and work on yourself, good things can happen.
Summer 2020 in southern England was beautiful. No cliché weather for once.
I ticked off all the lockdown cliches — daily Yoga, fitness, and writing a book — all while revelling in the online education boom.
Many of my stories and books begin with a desire to master a topic.
- A story about a Country singer.
- Trying my hand at Horror.
- A book about ‘time’.
The trigger for my book was how our experience of time was turned on its head during Covid. Days were suddenly hard to track; time was malleable.
With no idea for the story in mind, I began to research what time actually comprised: biology, philosophy, physics, language, narrative, chemistry, astronomy, and more. I listened to podcasts, discovered Carlo Rovelli’s book, read Einstein's Dreams, and went down the rabbit hole of how time itself is a mere construct.
Short stories are a way to explore themes without investing years in a fully blown book project. With time, I thought to expose the fractal: eighteen approaches to time with brief character narratives, all connected by one place.
I researched, I wrote, I edited, I paid for professional feedback, I submitted, I got a ‘maybe’, I waited, I queried again, got a ‘yes’, celebrated, edited again, and eventually, my book was scheduled for 2022 publication.
Here are the terms the independent publisher offered me to put my first traditionally published book into the world:
Production costs: paid by publisher
Other rights: publisher takes a percentage
Marketing: some tweets by the publisher
Distribution: a ropey website with 25-dollar worldwide shipping and no Amazon version
Print: black & white pamphlet with no eBook.
Author copies: bought at discount
Royalties: 0%
While the terms seem laughable, independent publishing is a rough business. The publisher was a one-woman operation, probably making a significant loss. Her model supports excellent literary works that would not be published elsewhere. She put real effort and care into editing.
Going through the process, doing an online launch, sending copies around the world (to reduce the silly shipping cost), and being able to call myself an author without the self-publishing caveat was life-changing. The book is with another publisher now, but I’m grateful to the first person who took a chance on me.
Fifteen Shades of Time is a book I'm proud of. I think it contributes to the canon of narratives on the subject. So does David Eagleman, the author of a best-selling book on afterlives with a similar structure. I was thrilled he read my book and gave a cover quote.
After the Covid summer, I moved to a place where time runs slower: The Canary Islands.
#unphiltered
GM!
I sometimes struggle with knowing what to post.
Feels like if it is not about bitcoin, it gets no love. But we need a bigger variety of posts and interests!
Vegetables are for brainwashed adults who were taught false nutrition by other brainwashed adults.
We all need to shut up and listen to kids' natural intuition more. They are often more correct than PhD's in clown world. https://blossom.primal.net/05335db64e63c3168ff26c033c053bbb4c96caef8cf5adb6f6fff3faadd1bdb5.mp4
Kids don't like going to sleep.
Should we all stay awake 24 hours a day???
I did start the first book, but I found it very dense descriptively. Fantasy is not really my go to genre. Neil Gaiman is more magic realism I guess.
Still, enjoy the series.
GM from a rainy GC.
Today is for reading.
Currently plowing through American Gods by Neil Gaiman.
Might read a bitcoin book after that...
What are y'all reading?
Yesterday, I was pooping my pants with food poisoning and fight my cat to take him to the vet.
Today, I won a nostr:nprofile1qqs9500z3l7sn46sdnls5fnjm0d3lqmrq7707qshes2y7j8pnm4rllcfc0kcc in a competition on Twitter.
Take THAT, universe!
21 prime dad jokes about bitcoin.
Prepare to cringe!
1. Why did Satoshi Nakamoto fail mechanic school?
He kept standing back and saying ‘bitcoin fixes this’.
2. What is Bitcoiner’s favourite horror movie?
Scare City.
3. A bitcoiner walks into a bar and orders a glass of Macallan 12-year-old.
He offers to pay 10,000 sats for the whisky. ‘This time tomorrow, it could be worth two hundred dollars!’
The barman switches the glass for water and says ‘Tomorrow, this might be a glass of single malt’.
4. My wife says that my obsession with Bitcoin has made our relationship impossible to continue with.
I've suggested we give it two weeks to see if the difficulty adjusts.
5. What did Michael Saylor say when asked if he would make different inheritance plans for his will? THERE IS NO SECOND BEQUEST!
6. How many bitcoins does it take to change a lightbulb?
Fewer than 21 million.
7.Knock knock
Who's there
Orange
Orange who?
Orange you glad I didn't say crypto?
(Courtesy of nostr:nprofile1qqsqvuz44yj580g4p20phwjjwx94f7dqxa0jm9sx9wnwvtjlz8s0t8cppamhxue69uhkumewwd68ytnrwgqs6amnwvaz7tmwdaejumr0dslrwnj3).
8. What do bitcoiners eat for breakfast?
Hashrate browns, a stack of pancakes, and a couple of UT-eggs-Os.
9. Snoop Dogg recently invested in 100 new Bitcoin mining rigs. He heard about the high hash rate and could resist.
10.A daughter shows her banker father her work on Bitcoin's lightning network to speed up transactions, in response he ask's her if she would like to hear his opinion on Bitcoin. She replies yes.
"It's worthless" her father says
"I know" She replies "But let's hear it anyway"
11. The new movie about the life of Satoshi boast an all start cast of Dwayne ‘The Block’ Johnson, Anne Hashaway, Leonardo Decryption-o, Brad Bit, Ryan Renodes, Florence Pugh-of-work, Paul FUD, Jake Gyllenhodl, Jessica Alby, and Harrison Fork.
12. I once knew a very introverted founder in the bitcoin space.
He mined his own business.
13. Bitcoin has brought my family closer together over the years … we live in 1-bedroom now.
14. Why did the Bitcoin go to therapy?
It had too many emotional blocks.
15. Why did the Bitcoiner have to sleep on the couch?
His wife said he Schnorrs too much.
16. Did you know, Bitcoiners don’t care about poor customer call centers?
They love getting put on hodl.
17. Why do musicians love getting paid in sats?
Because it’s sound money.
18. I called my mongoose ‘Bitcoin’ because he has massive mood swings on a daily basis. The guy at the pet store warned me about volatile meerkats, but I didn't listen.
19. Donald Trump has banned Bitcoin miners from adopting children.
He’s calling the initiative ‘Operation Orphan Block’.
20. Why did the bitcoiner fire one of his accountants?
He realized he had a double spending problem.
21. My mom asked if I was still unemployed.
I said I’m not jobless; I’m just early!
Got any to add?
Make me cringe. I dare ya.
#asknostr #jokes
So many questions!
Perhaps you could invite arashkordi7771 to appear in the next video.
And pay him in government cuckbucks.
GM.
I'm sick with a virus today.
What remedies can the healthy nostr community suggest?
#asknostr
Nostr is a great space for creativity.
It's that duality of wanting to shun trad media and still wanting a bigger community tho...
Real talk - How do you stay positive as a bitcoiner?
Within 4 years of understanding bitcoin, I've gone from dipping my toe in the water to full-on rabid maxi with 0 fiat who lives, breathes, and works in bitcoin.
I would also eat it if I could (but I prefer crisps).
However, my low time preference and my knowledge of the impending soverign debt crisis leads me to feel down on a daily basis.
I'm not dedicating my life to this to get rich. Hell, I don't even really want to buy anything (apart from crisps).
When the monetary crisis ramps up, people won't thank me. They will think I'm a smug asshole because I waxed lyrical about bitcoin.
I'm not sure I'll live to see the world prospering on a bitcoin standard.
And most days, I dedicate my hours to writing into the void.
This is perhaps why I, like many bitcoiners, enjoy the echo chamber a little too much.
Still, I'm interested to know.
What keeps you grounded and positive?
#asknostr
Bitcoiners Talk Film 🎥
That's the name of the episode I just finished recording with nostr:nprofile1qy88wumn8ghj7mn0wvhxcmmv9uq3qamnwvaz7tmwdaehgu3wd4hk6tcqyqv7xk9cqy047n7x20zkt3k5cten7vnxra8epxpvnmku9y4gwa8vxl92dzu.
We dug into our top movie picks that every Bitcoiner should watch or rewatch.
Can’t wait to share the full episode with you all. Stay tuned!
Cool. Will give it a watch!
You can't find happiness by chasing wealth, but you can find wealth by chasing happiness.
GM.
Time for a cookout. 🔥🍻🌽
How to combat the most 3 common bitcoin FUDs. 👌
1. "It's a Ponzi scheme."
Response: Your mum is a Ponzi scheme.
2. "The government will shut it down."
Response: The government should shut your mum down.
3. "Too volatile!"
Response: Your mum is too volatile.
Hope this helps!
Hey. I saw you joined the group.
We do a monthly walk (first saturday of the month) and a monthly meetup (next one is in Las Palmas 27th Nov).
You can join our bitcoin only whatsapp community here: https://chat.whatsapp.com/G6DyWS22oj1EYhywzRnu2G
Hope to see you around!
Spoke to a friend of mine who is a professional comedian.
Tried to get him on Nostr and failed miserably.
As well as touring, he makes 'jokes on the street' videos which get millions of views on TikTok, Facebook etc. He probably makes a little money from the videos, but it's not his main income.
I mentioned that we need more non-bitcoin content and that his videos would be well received. Lots of people would tip him directly with Bitcoin.
"I don't have any bitcoin," he said.
"You don't need any. Download Primal, and it comes with a wallet. Start posting and getting zaps right away."
Silence.
He is not dumb. He knows social media is exploitative and algorithms are an awful game to play. He knows the pound is fucked.
But this shows how hard it is to fight the systems that have their hooks so deep into us.
What's a better way to purple-pill him?
We need more great comedy on Nostr!
Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino.
I smell AI.
nostr:nprofile1qqs03ekxgdp0rczjfqrrpcn7zqtdec6lcwnpfesyxnl0f239qvege2gpp4mhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mqpz3mhxue69uhkummnw3ezummcw3ezuer9wc9dqmsh nostr:nprofile1qqszuq0hsxfcen4han2hmec9l7pktw4mvlpnhfq55dpx94xxkc44myspzdmhxw309akx7cmpd35x7um58gmnwdehqythwumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytn9v9ehjerwwvhxxcf0cxhar6 nostr:nprofile1qqsrxnwyx8knqjyf03u5ernexy2ckme9yh80am7vg4cfxvls7xtkv4czc3862 nostr:nprofile1qqspy3uspcsvjcurkfmmv62fm2lrze6ugzwwswrmqmzr40p0qmqxcfggz52y6 nostr:nprofile1qqstuyc7uxqtde2gggkxqpxnee0l7792nz64hl9zwzjglclalug27lqpzamhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuen0w4h8gctfdchxvmgpzemhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuurjd9kkzmpwdejhgj9zuhj nostr:nprofile1qqsvfr3f7p95stxqrjslnmuvsmhcxxxqt8swjdfjx5tz7zq0yms5cygpzemhxw309a6k6cnjv4kzumr0vdskcw358q6rsqg4waehxw309ajkgetw9ehx7um5wghxcctwvsxwhevn can you help me out?
Need to write 100+ dad jokes about bitcoin for a client.
One liners / jokes, rather than memes.
Please share your best and allow me to steal. 😄
I will zap the my top ten jokes 210 sats (and will credit you).
#asknostr #jokes #dadjoke
I didn't label it with a Sharpie.
And come to think of it, I used TDK CDs, not expensive Sony ones!
GM from GC.
Time for some café colombiano...
#coffeechain
