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bartholomeus bartholomeus@getalby.com 3 months ago
On really connecting the dots. ... What helped for me: 1) Listen to as many interviews as possible from @Jeff Booth . 2) Read the books "Beyond Money" from @Daniella ✨ (thanks Jeff for the recommendation) & "A Lodging of Wayfaring Men" (thanks @Max for the recommendation). (There are many other great books and bitcoin writers!!, but these referenced here specifically helped me overcome step 3 and 4) 3) Stop hoping... I spent too long waiting for a Bitcoin price surge to rescue me from my fiat job, so I could finally dedicate myself to freedom tech projects. 4) Start "building" NOW. As I'm not a developer, I just started doing things. My first focus is on proofreading and translations of bitcoin tutorials, courses (with @Plan ₿ Network ) and documentaries. Contributing for sats gave me the greatest satisfaction in recent years, despite working full-time on a rather useless fiat job. 5) Unfollow accounts who focus too much on price, politics, trends, macro, negativity 6) Follow and zap the builders, believers and the doers. protocol > asset build for > fight against Real joy comes when contributing to something you deeply believe in. Every day, a little joy compounds!
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Pangaea 3 months ago
The layers part Jeff keeps mentioning is fascinating and keystone. Regarding protocols, Bitcoin and Nostr. Layers. Build in layers. Keep the original, base, layer 1, primera. Build the socio-cultural diversity on top of. Do not threaten the essence. Build on the longest running no-nonsence mathematically checked or cryptographically verified and not conned. Seems similar to the keystone concept of edge and edge effect in permaculture, which, itself, i suppose is based on the ecological or biological "edge effect". There are various edges--from the bio-physical to the cultural--our cultivated ecologies or cultivated ecosystems we build and inhabit. David Bennett's "Bitcoin and..." lives generously somewhere along this fertile edge or continuum as he delves in that which is beyond Bitcoin, the and... portion of his podcast name and radio signature ID. It is like the "and Other Stuff" part of Nostr which is increasingly being explored and shared within the Nostr ecosystem, or would it be better called ecotone--maybe something the dear late Stephen Harrod Buhner may have left me in inspiration, glowing ember-like still in me to try and see differently, more amply. Thank you for this.
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