"Don't tell people what your going to do before you do it"

Like most of you I've heard this saying in some form or another for most of my life. but for some reason recently it dawned on me what it meant.

Don't tell people what you're going to do because you're undermining yourself. In some way, you're skipping the work and getting the social reward.

"Yeah I'm planning on building an app that will do..."

"Oh that's awesome I would totally use that"

"This spring I'm going to make a garden in my backyard"

"Oh awesome, what are you going to grow?"

You haven't done any of the work yet your getting the positive feedback from your peers. So you feel accomplished and then are less likely to actually put the work in.

If I think back to the majority of the projects I didn't finish, they all had one thing in common. And that was I told a lot of people that I was going to build them before I actually built them.

So in conclusion, I guess you could say my New Year's resolution is to stop myself before saying any sentence that includes "I'm planning to" or "I'm going to" and instead just do the work. Then take a victory lap

P. S. This long post is just a way for my to get around my resolution and tell you guys I finally know what kind of app I want noStrudel to be, and it's going to require a ton of changes :)

like a proxy user account of the platform. E.g. one cannot read from X without a user account.

I want to know how good the results can be with carnivore. That's one reason I'm going hardcore. #carnivore

Would DVM act as a user and simply pull info one needs? One could also provide similar service for X (or any other paywalled site) e.g. I want to read some thread on X or pull last couple of posts from a specific account without having to open the app and login with a lurker account.

I want to move out of Google One. I got stuck with +1 TB of Photos and Drive files so I kept extending the subscription for the lack of better option.

Any recommendations on how to back up files?

I got Proton 1TB, so I would move the important stuff there as a second backup for docs and smaller files. But what about the photos and videos?

Thank you #asknostr

Orange-Pilling Costa Rican merchants

Total time: 5 minutes

ACT 1, SCENE 1

me: do you accept Bitcoin payments?

them: no

me: why not?

them: I don't know... I don't have the app

me: do you have a phone or tablet with you?

them: yeah

me: can I show you how it works quickly?

them: sure (shrugs)

me - I take the phone and download the Bitcoin Jungle, we add their phone number, and hand it back to them

me: here is how to receive Bitcoin, click receive enter the amount

them - they do as I say and the QR code pops up

me - use ninja speed to pay the invoice

me: congratulations you now accept Bitcoin payments

me - I show them the advanced settings and how to convert Bitcoin to local currency in a bank account with the Bull Bitcoin

me: you're all set. here is our phone number if you need help

them: cool, thanks

END

P.S. - When dealing with the owner of the shop the success rate is very high. Failure is usually do to the fact that they are not the owner of the shop. ACT 2 of this story is showing the owner how to use the Point of Sale feature and explaining how to make sure employees don't steal the money which takes another ~3-4 minutes.

Looking at buying a new laptop.

Company offers a CPU upgrade to a newer generation for $200.

Look up the CPU benchmark comparisons.

The new generation is 4% slower with the same power draw.

WTF?

I spent some more time working on my node over the last couple of days. I now have Prometheus with Grafana set up for monitoring Eclair (this is a nice feature of Eclair) and I’ve opened another 3 channels. I doubt I’ll see very much routing through it yet and there is still a lot to learn about Eclair but so far everything seems to be working well. nostr:note1dlw7v07jz9j36lk8eglnxun4ewnqvgn8gfrkuzenmz5y7w68jk2qsgya5k

Do you Drink Tea ?

#introductions

Welcome to my #nostr page.

Once forgotten, as I lived in the “System of Medical Hell” faced with the insurmountable task of dealing with a life burdened by…RA, Parkinson’s, Stroke and Spinal MRSA which left me disabled and in constant pain. Thankfully, I found healing on a Clean Keto now Carnivore diet free of illness, free of medication.

I share my story on X in addition to numerous podcasts and the Healing Humanity documentary. My hope is you’ll join me here on #nostr as I continue to share how I live a life of vitality and strength at age 70.

“The best is yet to come”

This is wild. Never buy a hardware device from anywhere except the manufacturer, ever. And stay away from Ledger specifically. nostr:note19p9jh65ufx6yv9ud9udfxmcyju2u3hfqa0mqenegghsncj63k0pquzst7d

I agree - it’s probably significantly better

I spent another 100,000 sats on a zap-vertising experiment…

And I think I proved that advertising on Nostr actually works…

Here’s:

1️⃣ What I did

2️⃣ The results

3️⃣ What I learned

1️⃣ What I did:

I sent 4105 zaps over the course of 3 days for a total of 112,000 sats.

Each zap contained a link for a blog post:

zapvertising-experiment.carrd.co

My goal was to see if I could get a reasonable cost per click (CPC)…

2️⃣ The results:

During the campaign I had a total of 71 unique visitors to the page.

CPC was 1578 sats or $1.50 usd.

I also gained 245 followers from that campaign.

These CPCs are in line with other ad platforms which validates the overall concept for me.

3️⃣ What I learned / brain dump:

- Results were better than expected.

- I thought there might have been a bit of negative push back (however none received).

- There is a chance I am significantly underreporting and google analytics isn't picking everything up (surprised to see 3-4x the number of new followers vs. clicks 🤔)

- THERE IS SOMETHING HERE. I still don’t know exactly what the model looks like, how it scales, but there is something to be uncovered.

- Right now, this can’t be done at scale… in the future it could. I spent ~$100 and it took me multiple days. In the future there will be ways to allocate +$10,000 per day here. For context of where we are at right now, Nostr daily zap totals are around 750,000 sats - about $675 - see stats.nostr.band/ for that data)

- Something feels off with the format… simply paying someone and sending them a link… The p2p model feels right, but the format feels off.

More to come 🫡

Let me know your thoughts 👇