I just found myself on a list of “Suggested popular nostr accounts” under section “parenting”. Feels like winning some sort of price :).
Take s look on others, if you want to find more people not posting only about bitcoin.
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Onboarding: Suggest popular nostr accounts (profiles/npubs) to follow · Issue #1272 · damus-io/damus
User Story As a newbie nostr user onboarding to damus, I would like to see a sampling of various profiles to follow, so that I have interesting con...
Take a look at me. I am regarded as a failure by 80% of people. I have no money, my family and I live in a rusty van, I am a homeless person who has never accomplished anything, never had a career, does not have any normal money (just the weird bit-something) and smells. However, I should not be here to make an impression on others. I should not be here to prove to others that my life holds value (although it is sometimes hard to remember this). I am solely accountable to myself, and currently, I am more satisfied with myself than I have ever been, regardless of whether I succeeded in the film industry (in which I was participating before), built a house, or accumulated wealth. If these things hold no significance to me, there is no reason to have them in my life just because they are expected.
Likewise, we should not impose these false expectations on our children. There is no predefined right path in life. Each individual must find their own path that brings them contentment, and they will always be responsible for their own journey. Nobody else is capable of evaluating it, not even us - parents.
While it's possible to live in a van with kids and a dog in the middle of a city, it's not pleasant in the long term (especially for a mother and children). Therefore, we have decided to split for this week. While my wife sets off to nature with the van and the kids, I, on the other hand, am taking our teepee and staying in Prague. Luckily, I have the privilege of utilizing my friends' garden, situated on the outskirts of Prague. I brought along a fridge from the car (since my wife, being a vegetarian, doesn't use the fridge), and I've set up my nomadic dwelling there, where I'll retreat to sleep after a day's work.
Aside from borrowing electricity from my friends, I am fully self-sufficient, and I am delighted that even though I am on their property, I won't bother them at all if they need some time for themselves.
If I were living in the southern regions, I believe I could comfortably reside in this teepee throughout the entire year. It's truly remarkable to be able to live in something that costs no more than a basic M1 MacBook. I simply love the nomadic lifestyle.
#Nomad #Travel
In my previous post, I wrote about how having children is one of the best natural biohacks you can experience. But this biohack can be taken even further when it comes to parenting itself, especially if you choose to raise your child with freedom (Freedom parenting, Unschooling, etc.). After making such a decision (and doing some research), you'll find that the only thing you can do to even slightly influence and guide your child's development is through your own self-improvement (and that is the biohack for you)
In a parenting style where you have almost no prohibitions, commands, and often even no evaluations in your parental arsenal, self-improvement is the best and most effective way to guide your child, at least to some degree (and especially non-violently). The only thing you can do is be a great partner and inspiration to them in life. Rather than forming them by banning all bad things, you create an environment where there is no demand for them.
So you don't end up like many parents who project onto their children what they could never be and try to shape them into their dream perfect human being through the position of a police officer using violence. You simply have to BECOME what you want to project onto your child (if you want to project anything). You must become the perfect human being that you so admire and not expect the child to become it for you. And after you succeed, it's up to your child to decide what to take from you.
Along with the Bitcoin culture, my partner Martina and I have delved into biohacking this year. While we had already been doing many things for a long time (such as fasting and meditation), other things brought us interesting inspiration and opened our minds to new ideas and approaches. When I heard the opinion of a Czech biohacker (@npub1m2mvvpjugwdehtaskrcl7ksvdqnnhnjur9v6g9v266nss504q7mqvlr8p9) that meditation is one of the most effective biohackings when we look at the price/performance ratio, I started thinking about other things that move our lives forward without having to pay for them or struggle to obtain them. Besides completely obvious things like exercise, I then thought of children.
After some reflection, I was left amazed. Children have changed my life for the better by several orders of magnitude more than any other technique I have ever tried. Before children, I was an unorganized chaotic person who smoked, drank, worked at night (or at least tried to), woke up late, watched movies and series, and always looked stressed and busy, even though I never really did much work. I was on the best path to burnout, and maybe I was already smoldering a bit.
But then the children came. And with them, a avalanche of changes. The first was to quit smoking - after 5 years of futile efforts, it was the children who gave my subconscious a strong enough reason. Then to stop drinking - to be the right support for Martina, who probably won't drink for another ten years or more.
That was before their birth. Then came the birth itself. And then the second one. And we found out that if you don't go to bed before ten o'clock, a cruel fate awaits you the next day. You don't feel like getting up? Nobody cares. You simply must (usually at 6 am), you can't just hit snooze like with an annoying alarm clock and sleep in (especially when your children don't like watching animated shows on laptop).
Suddenly, you gain a rhythm. It hurts at first. But then it gets better and better. We began to realize that thanks to the children, we have to learn to handle our time extremely efficiently. And that it is not necessary to sit in front of the computer all day, inefficiently browsing the internet and calling it work. That you can be just as effective with two hours of work a day. I have never had such pumped and efficient 120 minutes as when I know that I simply won't get any more (unless I want to just dump the kids on my partner).
You will also stop wasting time on TV shows and movies. That one hour between your children's bedtime and your own sleep is too valuable to be filled with something that doesn't bring you clear benefits. From now on, only reading books or listening to educational podcasts is acceptable. Also active resting needs to be learned. To shut down my laptop and turn off my phone. No phone calls. No checking emails. No neverending chats. I have endless lego building ahead of me, and the only way to make everyone happy in the long run is through full presence (although I don't always succeed in this).
Now, with two little children, I feel like I have more energy (since I've been forced to learn how to manage it), work much less (although I don't feel any less effective), go to bed on time and wake up regularly at dawn, have order in my life, don't drink or smoke, and do all the beautiful and healthy things (like exercising, cold baths, eating healthy) to be able to spend long days with my kids in a good mood and without emotional breakdowns.
In my life, there has been no better biohacking than the arrival of my children.