So we all know the Trump speech was cringe as fuck right?

I have a feeling I'll be ghosting a lot of friends in the coming years.

Spending time around bitcoiners makes me question old friendships. I have friends I've known for 20+ years who haven't offered any real value in a long time.

That sounds awful to say, but they are so caught up in their dead end jobs and other bullshit. No care for anything else. They think the MSM and government are the best sources of truth. No interest in growing, or in self reflection.

Any attempt at deep, meaningful conversation basically turn into the "That's crazy. Catch the game last night?" meme. It's frustrating.

I'm still processing my feelings on this. I haven't had a close "crew" of buddies since high school. Even that was superficial. I've always been that guy people hang out with, but never a part of the "inner circle" or whatever.

I'm not saying this to garner empathy. I'm the complete opposite of depressed, and I don't stay up at night wishing I was one of the cool kids. I like having a close family, a wife that's my best friend, and a couple others I can talk to about anything and everything in a meaningful way.

I'm just wondering if it's time to drop some baggage.

Nostr is a great place for long-ish form writing. I love privacy, but I also love sharing the human experience. I spent the first 30 years of life keeping everything bottled up inside.

Never going back to that.

Bitcoin is dumping because penis

People have asked what I've been up to since retiring in 2018. I like to say I've spent as much time as possible with my daughters instead of focusing on a job.

If you met my girls in Nashville then you understand.

They had the most incredible time last week. I keep getting texts from them saying they can't believe how fun it was. My favorite text:

"What is your life, dad."😂

I want to stay close to my daughters for the rest of my life. The only way that's possible is with a lot of time, patience, and love.

I feel like we started something new together, and it feels pretty good.

Totally understand where you are coming from. I’ve had a similar experience. What I’ve learned over the years that most work friends are shallow and don’t really mean much. Most of the time people are looking to make friends so they can network and advance their career.

Since leaving my job and working for myself, those connections have evaporated but I’m ok with that. The only thing true in life is family. Highly recommend having kids! Such a joy and a blessing to be honest. Couldn’t imagine my life without them. You would be a great mother!

Here’s an observation about shitty Twitter algorithms.

I’ve actually never blocked or muted anyone on Twitter. Never felt the need. 690k followers, countless comments, no filters.

If someone is an ass, I tend to just ignore them or akido them and move on.

I just went over to Twitter and checked my notifications. Some guy posted in an unusually negative way in one of my threads. For a brief moment, I was provoked. But then I looked: he has 8,700 posts and 6 followers. Briefly skimming his profile, it is pure negativity. Imagine this. Like actually take a moment to think about what that process feels like for him, let alone how he impacts others.

Posting eight thousand and seven hundred times, mostly negatively, and after well more than a thousand of those posts, someone elects to follow him.

The algorithm trains us to see this and get angry. When he shows up in our feed, he seems like a normal person who disagrees with us. But he’s not normal. Someone like that is literally and sadly more in the mentally ill camp, even as the algorithm presented him to us like any other normal person, saying we suck.

Imagine if we had more programmable filters and algorithms. Like, mute people with over a thousand posts but with less than one follower per five hundred posts. That filters him out, similarly to how we would visually filter out and thus physically avoid a man holding his own shit in his hand in public on a street, who needs help but not public attention and proximity.

The centralized algorithms we have normalized, are not real life.

We give people virtual access that we would not do publicly, partially because we can program our real-life algorithms with various behavior rules that we can’t do on most virtual platforms.

Leg Day!

This week I'm up to 3 sets of 7 Leg Presses at 480 pounds 😎

Hi there! I'm exploring Nostr as a platform to share my thoughts while maintaining peace of mind. While Twitter has its merits, issues like spam accounts and excessive adult content can be problematic. I'm hopeful that the Nostr protocol will provide a better experience.

I currently work for Coinbase, but my posts here reflect my personal views and not those of my employer.

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What is an interest you have that you’d like to see more of on Nostr that you currently see fewer than one note a month about?

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