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Mike Still
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Can someone point me toward Matt Odell and American Hodl on here?

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Is there anyone who is *strongly* interested in being an early round beta reader for my sci fi manuscript?

Near-future sci-fi, crime/thriller/cyberpunk. A blend of action and multi-character depth, and moral analysis. The action is key and all, but alpha readers thus far cried at the character aspects; that's what hit them hard enough to care how they would engage with the action.

Strict Requirements for first-stage beta readers:

-I need to know/trust you personally, either in person or very well online with high reputation, to the point that I'd send an unfinished manuscript to you. There's no strict requirements, but if you know, you know.

-You like sci fi and/or fantasy books, and would be happy to read and offer objective (even brutal) feedback on a sci-fi action/crime thriller novel within the next month or two.

-You can comment or DM, for privacy sake.

That's a small group, but I'm putting it here on Nostr first for what I consider my pre-beta or readers. I will then expand 10x on Twitter and elsewhere for my full beta readers.

Meanwhile, I'm in the early revision stage. Manuscripts won't be sent out immediately. I'm still doing revisions and working with alpha readers, but I'm at the stage where I can start *planning* for the next step to see who might be interested to be early beta readers. Nostr folks get the exclusive early notice here.

I do tend to move pretty fast, though.

All pre-beta readers that provide meaningful input would be mentioned in the acknowledgement section, if the book were to be published, which of course I cannot guarantee will happen. I will only publish good books, one way or another.

But like, the alpha readers do like it. ;)

Excited to read this!

So sorry to read this Gigi. 😢 A truly moving piece of writing. Thank you for sharing it.

Back on Nostr because I just checked Erik Cason’s Twitter and he says he’s only here from now on.

Up only seems to have ceased to become just a meme.

Same. Cathie Wood talks about this a lot but don’t hear much from Lyn Alden or Luke Gromen about how this may or may not play into their oil / energy thesis.

How do we think EVs will or will not affect global oil demand in coming years?

Imagine buying Twitter and then destroying Twitter…

… when instead you could have bought hundreds of thousands of bitcoin.

Lyrics then: I’m holding out for a hero ‘til the end of the night

Lyrics now: I can buy myself flowers

There’s about $500 trillion worth of stuff in the world. Bitcoin makes up less than 0.1% of that today.

We might be about to find out what happens when billions of people want a piece of the world’s hardest, scarcest, most desirable money ever to have existed.

Talking about bitcoin at work. Colleague recalled that Warren Buffett is against it. Warren Buffett is rich and successful, therefore his opinion must count.

Ordered pizza at work the other day, manager paid and I paid him back. I asked him whether he wanted payment in pounds or in bitcoin. He laughed and chose pounds.