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One of the enduringly dumb things about the COVID era is I can’t listen to Joni Mitchell on Spotify when I want to hear “Blue” or “Carey” or “Case of You.”

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Really loved this ep. Have been inspired from afar by @npub1eequ...at9s for a while. As someone with a black flag tattoo, who learned how to play guitar to rancid, and went to grad school for film and lit, seeing the @npub1eequ...at9s shop for the first time was a moment for me. It showed me there are people in the space with a different set of interests, interests closer to my own. I heartily agree with his thoughts on the state of art when all art is endlessly available, and the overlap of punk ethos with bitcoin ethos. I’ll be looking to spend lots more time and energy on @Wavlake. Looking forward to a mobile app to use in my car. View quoted note →

Gm and pv #nostr. Big Monday for me today. Wall-to-wall hearings and depositions. Hoping I can keep my blood pressure at a reasonable level.

I’m a comparatively non-technical guy, so a lot of the tech of nostr was (and still is) intimidating and somewhat mystifying to me. I was consequently slower to use it regularly. Like I can’t wax poetic about relays (not yet at least). But the more I use it, the more I figure stuff out, the more I like it, the less I use Twitter. Sincerely enjoying it more every day. Community is great. Weird in all the best ways.

Valuable questions to ask every Sunday: You’ve probably watched hundreds of football games and will probably watch many, many more, but have you ever read Homer even once, anon? What about Dostoyevsky? Remember to lift intellectual weights.

Gm Last night I had a dream about #nostr. Is this normal?

Friends, this is the by far the best list of the best films I’ve ever come across. Been using it religiously myself for the last 15 years. It’s updated annually. If you’re looking to get cinematically educated, particularly beyond America and way beyond Hollywood, this is the resource:

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TSPDT - The 1,000 Greatest Films (by Ranking 1-1000)

They Shoot Pictures, Don

Trying this again with a better link (I think). Experimenting with #habla, thinking of moving off substack and, perhaps, starting to write again in a more bitcoin-native way. Starting by re-publishing some of my favorite pieces from the past to get the hang of this. (Haven’t figured out how to change my author name yet, but we’ll get there). https://habla.news/a/naddr1qqxnzd3e8q6rxdfk8q6rgdfjqgsgwq7lmw4vccchs456pm2avxhdamk322dnrjyugy9y54m8r6hm80crqsqqqa285judfj

Experimenting with #habla, thinking of moving off substack and, perhaps, starting to write again in a more bitcoin-native way. Starting by re-publishing some of my favorite pieces from the past to get the hang of this. (Haven’t figured out how to change my author name yet, but we’ll get there). View article →

I turned 35 yesterday. Feel like I should have some profound thoughts or lessons learned. Really don’t, though. Things have radically simplified for me over the years: Spend as much time with my daughter as possible. Be a good husband. Lift weights and stay in shape. Read lots of books. Save in #bitcoin.

I suspect there’s a significant difference between many people’s publicly portrayed #bitcoin  journeys and the private journeys they actually experience. I think the journey is fairly commonly described as either a linear one of increasing knowledge turning into increasing conviction.. Or as a kind of hero’s journey where there’s an initial overconfidence, a subsequent crisis, and a redemptive triumph. For me, personally, it’s really been neither. My journey with #bitcoin  began almost exactly 6 years ago. It’s been more like a volatile bell curve meme. In the very beginning it was I’m a genius, this is the greatest idea ever, I’ve found it, and that’s that. But the volatile, extended, mid-curve period was sneakily long and almost devious in the ways its emissaries of doubt would creep up on me. Usually at the moments of highest conviction. I’m honestly not certain if it’s ever over. But I’ve mostly kept to myself for about a year, after I spent the previous years writing, going on podcasts, etc., and I can feel a real calm emerging. The truth is that if you believe everything you hear on Twitter, if you allow yourself to be thoroughly influenced, thoroughly marooned in the echo chamber, your views will be more fragile than you realize, because they will never sustain a real, existential challenge. I would also argue another truth is that too much “signal” can end up being no “signal” at all. You end up not guided, but instead scripted. Like the Buddha, you have to scale the temple walls, you have to get outside your comfort zone, you have to question everything (including your heroes and those telling you to question everything,), and, most importantly, you have to wander a little bit. Kind of like the Amish Rumspringa, too. (Which is also why I think when @HODL jokes about bitcoiners being like the Amish, there’s more than a grain of truth to that) If you find yourself coming back, it’s a zen feeling. 6 years in, I’m more zen than I’ve ever been and, perhaps surprisingly, at a time when I’ve been saying less than I ever have. And the journey is not over…

Just watched Deep Impact, because I had some time and it was on TV, and I always end up watching it when it’s on. First time watching it as a parent, though. Can’t decide if I’m ashamed to say I basically cried the last 30 mins.

Gm and pv #nostr Remember, health is upstream of everything. Prioritize accordingly.

Friends what’s the best general guide/resource to all things #nostr?

If the bear market has you down, watch this. So good.