Another great day in the nostr:nprofile1qqs254dy0xkkjdxsl4u08k7cs52u689q67s3pqfwwyfcp4va7avcjdgpr9mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuumwdae8gtnnda3kjctv9uq32amnwvaz7tm9v3jkutnwdaehgu3wd3skueqvuv4am

Went to a farmers market in Dominical and met a wonderful lady named Gabi who sells all natural health products. Bought some cacao beans from her for sats of course. I was blown away by her story about how she discovered ₿ 10 years ago! She said she drew up a hand made sign that said “ accept bitcoin” but never received one payment in sats at the venue she was at at the time. I was also equally blown away when she told us she taught her very first nostr:nprofile1qqs0vzw43dp9x3v8drvm4udj326dld0ku6gdnxajwcxg8h36ssxragspzamhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wd68ytnzv9hxgtcpzdmhxue69uhhqatjwpkx2urpvuhx2ue0cx8kjh class at the nostr:nprofile1qqs254dy0xkkjdxsl4u08k7cs52u689q67s3pqfwwyfcp4va7avcjdgpr9mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuumwdae8gtnnda3kjctv9uq32amnwvaz7tm9v3jkutnwdaehgu3wd3skueqvuv4am office 2 days ago !

Imagine that ! a local Costa Rican who discovered ₿ 10 years ago but couldn’t accumulate any ₿ until now and ends up teaching ₿ to local Costa Ricans !! And she explained that she wanted to do this even though she wasn’t getting paid because she wanted to help locals AND bc it helps her learn more about ₿ ! 🤯

Needless to say , we gave her a free OPI orange pill to display at her booth! We need more Gabi’s 👏

We also met a very interesting bitcoinner for coffee using the nostr:npub1ve8qwrlztemdmnh62jffcr0y9m9dpqgqjdg8ufx7gc3qw5wdk74qyv9ka6! It’s amazing how there’s an instant connection that bitcoinners have. Spent hours chatting about life and traded some war stories. Ended up going for lunch and the farmers market together 🇨🇷🇸🇻

A lot of people when they talk about solving societal problems jump straight to suggestions about fixing education. That almost never works. Even when the correlation is there, the causality is usually the other way around (rich societies have more money to spend /waste for education, they are rich first).

There are many reasons why it does not work, but one view is useful. Information is abundant. The teacher in school does not need to read a book to us, we can read ourselves, or let AI describe that. The way to learn is to engage with a topic. In other words pay attention. The teachers know this and repeat it to students. "Pay attention!"

We don't pay attention to boring, uninteresting stuff. We need to be engaged with it first. Is it a date to remember or a fundamental law that we need to understand in order to finish our project that we're engaged in.

It used to be that information was scarce. With printing press, information started to be free. That was accelerated with internet. What became more important is how to apply the information. Now with AI, this is also demonetized.

Now it's only about our attention.

The teachers in school direct our attention. But they often have to drive it to some centrally planned content(*). Which is boring, often useless at least during childhood when it's presented and thus forgotten before we actually need it.

The only superpower remains - where do we put our attention? Can we actually control it or is it controlled by apps, advertisers and propaganda?

"If they lose our attention, they lose their power" (by nostr:nprofile1qqsgydql3q4ka27d9wnlrmus4tvkrnc8ftc4h8h5fgyln54gl0a7dgspp4mhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mqpxdmhxue69uhkuamr9ec8y6tdv9kzumn9wshkz7tkdfkx26tvd4urqctvxa4ryur3wsergut9vsch5dmp8pese6nj96 )

It is crucial step in The Merge, but I'm not spoiling anything more.