A post-existentialist aphorism 🤩 View quoted note →

A lot of time is spent talking about "small accounts." I wonder whether we're looking for the wrong thing. Small is a number. Relevant is a relationship. Some of the most interesting conversations never reach a large audience. They don't become relevant because they're amplified. They get amplified because they're relevant. Save my seat. 🪑

Every solution contains a description of the problem.

I've been wondering whether the most interesting thing about #NOSTR is not censorship resistance, the ability to transact financially, or data ownership, but the randomness of the experience itself. In real life, we only ever encounter a tiny fragment of what Michael Oakeshott called "the conversation of mankind." That fragment emerges through accidents: who we meet, when and where we live, and what we happen to read. Algorithmically driven social media changed this. The fragment is no longer discovered. It is selected. NOSTR feels different. I still see only a tiny part of the conversation, but the part I see seems to emerge from chance encounters, relationships, timing, and curiosity rather than optimization. The difference may be larger than it first appears.

NOT Y'R #DEVICE, NOT Y'R NODE NOT Y'R #NODE, NOT Y'R CODE NOT Y'R #CODE, NOT Y'R NETWORK NOT Y'R #NETWORK, NOT Y'R KEYS NOT Y'R #KEYS, NOT Y'R COINS NOT Y'R #COINS, NOT Y'R NFTS NOT Y'R #NFTS, NOT Y'R MEMES NOT Y'R #MEMES, NOT Y'R METAVERSE NOT Y'R #METAVERSE, NOT Y'R #UNIVERSE

Excellent essay. However, the real innovation is blockchain of which bitcoin was the first instantiation. The fundamental shift this technology provides is the irrevocability of contracts. This is the "moral" and social innovation of blockchains: the introduction of objective constraints in human action.