Night made 🙌🏾
An app that changed my life was called Stop, Breathe, Think. Circa 2016 it was sold/rebranded to “MyLife” (yuck title) and it went under in 2022 ❤️🩹
While searching for a guided meditation to fall asleep, I learned nearly all the SBT meditations are on FB; apparently uploaded circa 2016!
Welcome to instant peace (that is, if you can get past that they’re on Meta 😉)
Goodnight nostr 🫂
https://fb.watch/m5GONkBlek/?startTimeMs=2000&mibextid=v7YzmG
That’s honestly a great idea and totally doable. 🫂
Dude you guys are way nice. If someone lost nsecs as much as I do, I feel like it’s totally reasonable to think “catch you in someone else’s re-note.”
How do you store your nsec? I was just copy/pasting it into a note.
Nope. If anything I’d rather just have my mobile.
Nah. I know people to call them “auto craptions.”
🎶 and I say,
Why?
Why? 🎶 nostr:note1y5vsufxujtm2087gltxdx5accu9ruvu3szfklpnsd800ftetmsfq3q0qyj
Here’s to those who imagine ✨
“Imagination is the key ingredient in all forms of play…It invites us to participate in shaping the world around us rather than escaping from reality.
Fantasy allows us to escape into a world of our own creation. There, we are safely insulated from the disruption of otherness, but also isolated from connection.
Imagination stands in contrast to fantasy. It takes courage and creativity. It offers parts of our true self to the outer world with vulnerability and authenticity.” - LB
#CognitiveHealth #Community #SaturdaysAreForImagining 
Before I even scrolled to see the rest of the album cover I started singing this chorus in my head 😊 Happy Saturday, love 💜
His eyes were fierce and he was a genius; understandable!
Nothing like contacting the UK in the summer 💜
“I’m on annual leave until…”
“I’ll be on holiday through..”
The one that made me smile:
“This will not concern my attention until”
Goes w/o saying that I’ve respect for jack. He funds culture and innovation. He’s an objectively thoughtful leader, and mentor when he chooses.
Agree to disagree re: people not being ready for nostr 💜 People just don’t know about it. The lack of urgency within this space ought to be the focus vs untapped potential of people that aren’t here.
Since the focus here is inward v outward, people take offense and in-fight v a more productive mentality. nostr:note1w5mmm9qfxjgfja9w8hajkt7urckanhc2cexqlc2k37r4d6zgjrdskjln6k
Yay! After 3 days of trying, the App Store finally let me redownload Damus 🎉 Thank you for the memories Iris 💜
Some days I get 8 hours of sleep and I’m rested, and other days I get 4 and feel equally rested. Go figure 🙃
Girl this app is so confusing! 😂 Im on Iris right now and I’ll see people write about Primal and I’m like “but how do you log in..” then I’ll try to download Damus and get errors on the app store - 3 nsecs later I’m like “what is happening? 🕊️ Oh. Still bros and Bitcoin, le sigh.” Trust tho that I’m def like “Royas still an ace and a Godsend to this space.” 🩵
I am no longer part of Strike.
After 4+ years, the time has come to move on and contribute to Bitcoin in a different way.
My thanks goes out to all of you here who came from #Bitcoin Twitter! Support Strike and me have received from you over the years was instrumental in our success!
Twitter also helped me and nostr:npub1dmcd5wqd3yku05svp6xqk5gyywek4cgg0w3dk63tcu0rmjxnanns5xutjm connect and develop our relationship.
He followed the success of nostr:npub155m2k8ml8sqn8w4dhh689vdv0t2twa8dgvkpnzfggxf4wfughjsq2cdcvg, and over the years we began talking on coding, FOSS, teams, life...
Then in June 2019 Jack texted me and asked to help him take ln_zap to the next level:
> Unc, I'm looking to turn Zap into a startup and begin selling BTC over Lightning directly inside the wallet
Having a pre-seed startup for your full time job is always tough.
I considered doing it mainly because I wanted to see how Jack will grow as a person and entrepreneur. Like many in the Bitcoin community, I believed in him... and wanted to help him with my skills and experience.
Zap also already had a team of amazing FOSS contributors that I appreciated and wanted to know better.
Opportunity to work with Otto, Ole, mrfelton, Dylan, Korhal, Raph and Namson is what pushed me over the top and sealed commitment.
What followed was hardcore coding of backend that would provide additional APIs and run features Jack had in mind for Zap wallets on iOS, Android and Desktop.
By September we had the first version out
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xj9IMNAswSM
By the end of 2019 we have completely abstracted away the ability to pay lightning invoices.
This is when decision was made to go with completely new app, providing clean experience, focused on ease of lightning payments and UX.
Strike was born: https://jimmymow.medium.com/announcing-strike-by-zap-4f578c7c8984
6 months later, it was time to go with public... Strike BETA was released to everyone that wanted to download it.
https://jimmymow.medium.com/announcing-strike-public-beta-325877a79f87
Looking back, I couldn't be more proud on all the coding I've done on Strike.
Credit where credit is due - big part of that was mrfelton. Otto, Raph and Korhal as well.
Support these guys provided was critical for my coding commits streak of 2019, 2020 & 2021.
And not just them. I was lucky to be able to bring in more amazing engineers into Strike.
Kataklinger, Frank and Giancarlo who I hired for backend delivered big; so it was asked of me to help do the same across Engineering... and eventually whole company.
Thus in 2021 and 2022 I did more of what VP of Engineering traditionally does. There was still sporadic day to day coding, but I was focused on recruiting needed talent, structuring teams and setting up others for success.
In the end I've helped interview and hire over 80 people.
I'm especially proud of realization that I would repeat every single technical hire we've made.
To all that joined Strike over the years - thank you for the work you've done. It was privilege working together with you.
Finally, my focus in the last year was on ensuring that culture of Bitcoin is strong within Strike... and that Strike gives back to Bitcoin for the immense support it has received over the years.
In the process we started numerous partnerships and executed on several grants.
We were glad to give to organizations
https://twitter.com/unchainedcom/status/1636777955727753230
To individual contributors
https://twitter.com/Strike/status/1595185069538349056
To projects
https://twitter.com/jackmallers/status/1529204176101724161
And all that are working tirelessly every day to push Bitcoin forward.
We have also supported conferences like TabConf, AfroBitcoinOrg, TheBitcoinConf and meetups like ChiBitDevs.
In the end - I wish Strike all the best. It turned into the app that served as entry point into Bitcoin for many... and I hope it will get to do that for many more, across the globe!
Rockstar out 🎤 ✈️🥷🏽🌐🫂
My well-being has exponentially increased being near loved ones v traveling 💞 Cheers to intention and patience 🙏🏾 LOVE YOU!
