#GM #marketing @earthcuddle #replistate Richard W. Hemming **You and Your Research** "I must come to the topic of “selling” new ideas. You must master three things to do this (Chapter 5): 1. Giving formal presentations, 2. Producing written reports, and 3. Mastering the art of informal presentations as they happen to occur. All three are essential—you must learn to sell your ideas, not by propaganda, but by force of clear presentation. I am sorry to have to point this out; many scientists and others think good ideas will win out automatically and need not be carefully presented. They are wrong; many a good idea has had to be rediscovered because it was not well presented the first time, years before! New ideas are automatically resisted by the establishment, and to some extent justly. The organization cannot be in a continual state of ferment and change, but it should respond to significant changes. **Change does not mean progress, but progress requires change.** To master the presentation of ideas, while books on the topic may be partly useful, I strongly suggest you adopt the habit of privately critiquing all presentations you attend and also asking the opinions of others. Try to find those parts which you think are effective and which also can be adapted to your style. And this includes the gentle art of telling jokes at times. Certainly a good after-dinner speech requires three well-told jokes: one at the beginning, one in the middle to wake them up again, and the best one at the end so they will remember at least one thing you said!"

#GM One idea I had for a Journal app, is to leverage the dopamine triggered from gaining "levels" or "experience points", towards the skills and goals you are working towards IRL. I imagine an RPG game style interface, perhaps interacted with through speech. You tell your chosen fantasy AI agent what you did today/this week. It updates your skills and progress trackers and keeps detailed logs, all tagged and stored in linked atomic notes, tracked through a captain's log for each skill / goal. The whole app is local first and privacy based. Accounts through NOSTR Encrypted data stored on Blossom? Invite friends to help you towards a shared "quest"? #dreaming #asknostr #journalling #rpg #AI #workandplay

#GM #asknostr I'm wondering if it's ok to use #blossom for data that I know will be edited later, and the immutability of old versions is not required. I see there is a blossom Delete request, which like on Nostr, is optional for relays/servers to honour. So, I guess it's ok? Thoughts?

#GM Feeling frustrated. Every time I try to build on Nostr I hit the same wall: yes, it solves identity & pub/sub, but then I’m stuck needing something centralised for ACLs, routing, bootstrapping. Feels like I traded one gatekeeper for a dozen tiny ones. I love what NOSTR is doing, but I can't help but feel that the rest of the stack is still waiting. Is that fair? Am I missing something? Did the hype just wear off or do I still just not get it?

GM Starting to wish I hadn't sold as much MSTR as I did. The pump is face melting. Wondering if this time is different. Knowing from wisdom to retain some conservatism and to plan for the future. Feeling good about my cash position as I consider buying land. Knowing that ultimately, land with friends is what I most desire. #GM #journalling #thoughts

#GM Surrending to the fact that everything takes the time that it takes. Including us. Let us cook.

#GM #mentalhealth #logic From a conversation with a friend: Writing a journal and reading it back is similar to running your code through a compiler. If you think of yourself as a complex bio-machine, then why wouldn't you expect to have to compile your thoughts by checking them for errors? If you only ever 'think-through' your problems, how do you catch falsehoods as obvious as the failing code you write on your first try? Use a compiler people. 📝😁 Edit your opinions as much as necessary to allow the code to run smoothly, without errors.

#GM #Bitcoin #Crypto From a conversation I had with a crypto inclined friend: I know the "Bitcoin is different" argument can land on deaf ears because it sounds tribalist and not inclusive. But the reality is, that Bitcoin follows a lineage of freedom fighting cryptographers who's cause is greater than the individual. Crypto is the venture capital /capitalistic world that is enriching the few at the cost of the many. To them, "Blockchain" is just a buzzword, like "AI" and "Quantum Computing", that will attract the flow of money towards them. What's the core difference between these two camps? Values.

#GM "True teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross; then, having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create their own." Nikos Kazantzakis

#GM ☕ Life keeps moving, but I can't remove the sense that my research into NOSTR is of higher value to society than anything else I do.