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If the best way were also the easiest way, we wouldn't call it the best way, we'd only call it the way.
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Many are happy and even proud about the fact that: "I'm really bad with computers, HA HA HA", "I don't have a technical background whatsoever", "I'm as far as it gets from technology, I only use x to call with my grandma", and so on.
Yeah, fuck that! We are in 2023, go get a book or something and stop being an illiterate dumb fuck.
Totally agree. I'm a boomer and with some thought and willingness to learn, anything is possible as I am on nostr and slowly getting my head around it all!
View quoted note →As an old punk, all I can say is: it's too easy, I need to bring in a handicap.
I don't fucking care about
seed oils.
vaccines
meat only / meat less
blue light
sugar
name it
life is easy, we make it difficult.
I have broken a few joysticks with hard games in the past. It sometimes made me angry but I always practiced more and made sure that one day I would win the game.
Never giving up is something very useful later in life
Amen brother. The world wants to be uniform because its easy. Conformity isn't easy, it just looks it. These idiots will wake up one day and realise they are in a cage. Gilded or not
Logical is necessary, and it often contradicts easy.
That's the real grit in the lube of all this.
People's minds have been shrunk from 60+ years of counterintelligence cultification of everything. Then the food and drug companies come along and make their FDA advocacy and the food is now also making people more retarded.
It's really hard to reach people who have suffered through all these things, and more. It's also why I am usually happy to read another awake human being who has managed to wrangle a decent following without playing the charismatic cult leader game so hard.
🎯 start onboarding the right way, not the easy way
View quoted note →Fail harder, do better, get stronger.
View quoted note →It's really hard to make things easy.
Driving on an unpaved road is hard. Some will drive on it, some will avoid it.
But also, paving the road is hard. Some will try to pave it, some wont.
We are in the paving roads business.
View quoted note →I don’t think Nostr on Primal is hard. It’s super easy actually. Wallet setup smooth af too. Slick interface. Great UX. don’t know how should be hard
Nintendo actually guages general player skill for their new Mario games by making focus group respondents play level 1-1 of the original SMB. You would be surprised how many respondents fail to beat the level before running out of Mario lives. This is why all the new 2D Mario games hand out extra lives like there is no tomorrow
same here, so, I think we ultimately are GMI!!!
I feel like multiple years of Dark Souls games and "git gud" mentality helped prepare me to Bitcoin adoption.
To all the whiners: git gud
Nostr takes some effort initially, as an almost 50 year old, non-techie who first owned a pc in my twenties I managed fine.
As I tell young people every day; life is hard, don't let anyone tell you otherwise. You must always be improving, physically and mentally, and pushing forward, because life will flatten you if you're not.
Spot on as always Sir. Light/idle hands make devils work. Find the struggle and get stuck in. Run, lift, fight the fight, swim butterfly, swing kettlebells, study, cold showers, hot saunas, fast, stretch, tell the truth, call out bullshitters, don’t conform….just seek out what is hard and embrace it.
I dropped processed foods over a year ago and, even though I got a lot healthier, I noticed I still had some problems with energy and stubborn fat I couldn’t lose. I did more lab work and found that my gut was severely damaged. Years of fiat food and fiat medicine take time to fix. As I started to fix some of these issues I noticed I have better energy and cleaner focus. I’m convinced that it is legitimately harder for people today to say “fuck easy” because there is something wrong physiologically.
It’s good to “take it easy” after working hard for a period of time, I personally have gone through this cycle over the past 6 months. Aspiring to perpetually take it easy is in my opinion weak minded. It’s why I hate the concept of “retirement”.
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Counter-argument: embracing things getting harder is indistinguishable from embracing “degrowth”.
Innovation is about making previously impossible things possible and previously hard things easy… so that we can do more things.
u read “the comfort crisis” yet?
if not - it’s all about this.
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Do things that are hard and your life will be easy. Do what is easy and your life will be hard.
-Unknown
we can do hard things
I haven't! Thank you for the recommendation 🙏
I ranted about this months back as well
Embrace the struggle 🫡
Yakihonne
Life Isn’t Meant To Be Easy
Embrace the struggle.
I think what makes it "hard" is people not wanting to be responsible and be accountable for their stuff. These last generations have been configured to always assume they have a safety net.
It will take time and younger generations go embrace and take the plunge is this new Era that was, until recently, straight out of science fiction or living in the heads of Cypherpunks.
What did you do to fix that?
I started eating milk kefir and Kombucha which made a huge difference for me. I always suffered an intolerance to milk. This largely went away when I started drinking kefir. My wife used to do the most rotten farts that would stink out the bedroom, this was a problem for about a year. As soon as she started drinking my home made Kombucha they stopped smelling and haven't smelled in months.
Where do you think the term helicopter parents came from. Coddling is rampant. Being taught to kids from parents and school teachers. It can easily be fixed with endurance, discipline and training. Low time preference values.
Peanut brains, put in the effort and do some hardshit... Its worth it
View quoted note →This game was really hard too
take the padding off of the corners of the world.
you comfort addicted bitches.
A world of consumers where making and investing has no place.
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Nostr being hard serves as a filter of people that can't handle hard things.
Redundant komplikation doesn’t serve nobody
Nothing worth having is easy to get
Legendary game 🔥
Well, I wasn't expecting to read your musings about your wife's rotten farts this morning 😁
She is not on here so I'm free to say what I like 🤣
Right! yeah I agree. Sometimes you just get knackered and can’t sustain that level of work. I’m a do-er but I have had annoyance from workaholics over the years who think you should ALWAYS be working and make you feel bad for kicking back sometimes.
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I'm not much of a SM user, but found nostr (via #amethyst) easier than Twitter, particularly not having to wade through crappy ads, spam and weird fake accounts/follows.
We now know the one person Azz will NEVER purple pill 🤣🫡
I like it. Reminds me of the concept of Hormesis and “salvation through suffering”
great comparison to the original SMB! that game is a classic to me for that very reason. it made the player step up and rise to the challenge rather than just sitting back and be spoon fed.
It IS a little tricky to remember the little details of how to start in Nostr. I don't find that a bad thing, just means there is an incentive to write a simple guide to make the tricky untricky...
I think Alby do a great job in making the hard simple...
Well, I'm just after setting up my account, so I am by no means a power user 😅
The opposite of ''hard'' doesn't have to necessarily be ''easy''. It can also be soft as in child's play, the soft focus of being curious, having an open mind, the joy metric of wonder, discovering something exciting, fascinating & new, making mistakes, learning through breaking things and embarrassing yourself, falling into the void abyss of public relays and picking yourself up again...
Stepping into the unknown is like a micro death.
The death of the ego.
She said I was in a cult when I told her about nostr. I'm pretty safe here 😆
I’m consider it Done if
The industry is responsible but the individual holds more responsibility. It’s industry’s job to make products useful and easy. It’s people that are to blame for not prioritizing and doing at least the minimum to ensure the most important things are accomplished.
View quoted note →what’s hard about nostr
I started stacking not long ago, and it is extremely easy. Saylor, Saif and Jeff Booth just explained the basic in 3 hours. Taking self custody is super easy with the coldcard + sparrow and buying BTC is easier than banking with strike.
IMO builders and the minds on the BTC space hava already paved the way and made it easy. No excuses.
P.S. I am very dumb, if I can, anyone can. But they won't.
ever try to explain it to a "normie"?
It'll catch up at some point, but just like there's a big gap between Fiat banking and Bitcoin in terms of mindset, there's going to be something similar for "just sign up for an App" vs " manage your own private key"
I think the upcoming Satellite drop is going to impress most. The newly retooled back end protocol makes it super fast and the front end UX has new features most people have been waiting for. Your bud @Stuart is about to impress us all. I've been following his progress IRL and got sneak previews of what's coming. Can't say more until it's drops. It's a culmination of 15 months work. Gonna be amazing. Watch out Damus and Primal it's about to get real.
Everyone should. Good job. 👏🏻
Strike has auto withdrawal with Bitkey, doesn’t get any easier and 99.9% of people should just use that.
Doesn't Strike allow free withdrawals? I believe they also just partnered with Bitkey for auto-withdrawals too.
Yes and they are moving to no-fee for deposits too. Cannot be better.
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I wrote a short rant called "fuck easy" a couple of days ago. I've been listening to podcasts and after the 5th person complaining that nostr is too hard (is it, really?) I was fed up and typed this out on my phone. I hope that we can return to a point, culturally, where "hard" is okay, just like the first level of the original Super Mario was hard.
Coddling everyone's mind has led us to the upside-down clown world we're currently living in, and coddling everyone's body has led to less-than-optimal health, to put it mildly. In the Bitcoin world, coddling users and making things "easy" has led to Coinbase-by-default and other stupid bullshit, and I truly am fed up with all of that.
There is a better way, but the "better" isn't necessarily "easy."
