“Come on, now I hear you're feeling down Well, I can ease your pain And get you on your feet again” Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb

POV: guy leaves good construction career to go full time Nostr

Gm Nostr fam. Been active in private chats but haven’t been posting enough We’ve been in the middle of a move from SCal to NCal and I’ve felt overwhelmed just trying to keep everything moving forward …but that’s no excuse really The whole point of this thing is you can just be yourself no filter no gatekeepers. It’s the closest thing we have to organic social tech (if that can ever really exist) Now apparently I’m on Twitter… supposedly to bring people here to what I believe in. To tell people they can own themselves and not rent themselves online. But if I really mean that then it means I need to post even MORE here. I need to be here. Just be a human here in the way I can’t be anywhere else. I don’t wanna lose that, ever. Fuck renting myself out. Hold me to it.

Hope is contagious Great work brother @Sync

Open Markets Foundation

Open Markets Foundation

Open infrastructure for markets that work for everyone. Build, buy, trade, and sell on top of open protocols.

I have a strange habit where I smash enter emphatically at the end of a prompt and it does absolutely nothing except cost me money in keyboard and laptop repairs but for some reason I can’t kick it

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Shameless boosting of our own show. This one deserves it!

Fountain: Podcasts & Music

Open Markets Podcast • #13 The return of Gzuuus | Open Markets Podcast • Listen on Fountain

Eric and Sync are joined by Gzuuus, an early Nostr builder whose work connects several important threads in open markets… from Plebeian Market an...

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GM. How can it be so over when we are so back? Awesome discussion innit👇🏼 View quoted note →

Fear is the mind killer

You wanna know if I know why? I can't say that I do Don't understand the evil eye Or how one becomes two And I just can't recall what started it all Or how to begin in the end I ain't here to break it Just see how far it will bend Again and again, again and again I wanna make it I wanna make it wit chu -QOTS

Feed cleanse

When everything digital seems compromised it’s unusually comforting to have the ability to work in the physical realm. This too shall pass and we’ll all be better off for it but damn I wanna grab a power tool for comfort right now.

West coast late ish gm hope everyone’s doin ok

GM. Great convo to listen to. Got me even more stoked to meet everyone in Chicago next month!

Local Bitcoiners • Chicago Bitcoin Collective w/Jon, Brady & Foise: Chicago, IL | Ep. 020 • Listen on Fountain

Chicago Bitcoin Collective co-founders Jon, Brady, and Foise join the show to tell the story of buying a building in Portage Park and turning it in...

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I know so many people are experiencing pain at many levels right now. It probably feels like you need to do SOMETHING right now for your community. … but adding dice rolling and other such things to the overgrown list of Bitcoiner purity tests will NOT lead to more self custody, and definitely not lead to more people becoming Bitcoiners. It is totally rational to expect a professional hardware company to do their fucking job. The vast majority of them are. We need more user friendly products- not less. …and FYI a properly designed piece of hardware will likely do a better job at creating randomness anyway. If you do decide to roll dice and that’s the only way you feel safe at this point- that’s understandable. Please do it properly and follow a proper protocol. Keep taking care of each other. Much love. GM. View quoted note →

Breathe. Great positive discussion @NOVA and Brandon

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The Becoming Sovereign Podcast • Cutting Hair for Bitcoin in Chicago • Listen on Fountain

In this episode of the Becoming Sovereign podcast, host Brandon Karpeles is joined by Staci Castopoulos, host of The Bitcoin Nova podcast and membe...

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Is the mission to build great freedom tech products? …or to perpetually optimize our harnesses, purify our workflows and perfect our comms channels? Engineering minds tend to drift toward work that is objective / measurable / intellectually satisfying… but doesn’t require confronting users. Productive procrastination? I’m guilty of this too…