FUCK EASY I'm fed up with easy. You don't want easy. The road to hell is paved with good intentions, and one of said intentions is making things too easy. Easy is staying on the couch. Easy is not putting on your running shoes. Easy is watching the porn, eating the junk food, binging the fucking stupid series. Easy is not sticking out. Easy is shutting up when you should be speaking out. Easy is compliance. Easy is saying the same thing, thinking the same thing, and liking the same thing as everyone else. Easy is kicking the can down the road. Easy is short-term gain for long-term losses. Easy is starting up the money printer. Easy is "papering over" failures. Easy is "This is too hard. This is not for me. Someone else should take care of it." Easy is not educating yourself. Easy is not taking responsibility. Easy is trusting a third party. Easy is not holding your own keys. Easy is comfortable. Easy is not having to think. Easy is not having to understand. Easy is the coddling of the mind. Doing things right is hard. Understanding things right is hard too. As is changing the status quo. But there's no improvement without change, no change without pain. Fuck easy.

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Lucid 2 years ago
If you love it then it isn't hard enough.
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Lucid 2 years ago
Welcome to farm life as a 5 year old.
Embrace the Ease. If you're following your True path, it will feel like you're swimming downstream. Like the whole universe is behind you & supporting you. It doesn't mean that it won't require effort or that you won't face challenges, fears & pain. It just means that it won't feel like you are required to force things or to swim upstream the whole way. Do the work because you feel drawn to doing the work & not because you think it's required to achieve an outcome.
It can be hard to stay on your True path. There are many obstacles, distractions & growth opportunities along the way. You can feel your way onto your path but not think yourself there. It doesn't have to be hard, but it often is. It's also much harder for some than others. Those that are skilled at manipulating symbols within their minds (left brain dominant thinkers) seem to find it most difficult. On a positive note, Bitcoin seems to be harmonizing for humans. Harmonizing for the spirit within each human and also between each human. Bitcoin makes many things easy. ๐Ÿงก๐Ÿค™
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OT 2 years ago
Gigi done it again
Hey gigi. Want a wallet or maybe a ColdClutch or a belt? I took the hard path to make them. Slept on the floor for 6 month. Live in my shop. On the line of poverty but buying leather to work. Because work is the only way out. It is my way out.
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banjo 2 years ago
Success is rarely easy...it almost always takes hard work and sacrafice. Yet it come with a corollary: "If it was easy, it wouldn't be any fun." Looking back at life, my most enjoyable moments were when someone said "that can't be done" and I decided to do it anyway. Thank you for posting this--we all need to be reminded how important it is to be relentless as we journey through life.
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rob 2 years ago
Easy is taking the pharmaceutical drug to ease the symptoms.... and not working on fixing the underlying problem.
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rob 2 years ago
Critisism is easy too, isn't it.
If what you are doing is easy (for anyone), you are probably not adding much economic value. Also, if you worked hard to master something, so that what you are doing has become *easy for you*, then you are probably adding less value *than you could*. View quoted note โ†’
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Freebird 2 years ago
Easy is sending your kids to school aka the government indoctrination camp. Hard is taking responsibility for their education yourself.
The goal of a software developer, and software development in general, is to make our lives easier. It used to be very hard to hold and secure our property. We could buy gold and bury it on a deserted island covered in complex booby traps, but thatโ€™s not very practical. Bitcoin changed this. It made it so much easier. It can be even easier, with Bitcoin as the base layer. A doctor should not have to learn how to keep their Bitcoin private and self-sovereign. They should worry about doctor stuff, and their family or hobbies in their free time. Saying "FUCK YOU" to the government can, and should, be as easy as buying Bitcoin.
@Gigi lets start by not using youtube links but #invidious links. Can you accept the challenge?
Is there no public market near you? Maybe you could find solutions there...
As Goethe wrote in Faust [Ich bin] ein Teil von jener Kraft, Die stets das Bรถse will und stets das Gute schafft. ... Ich bin der Geist, der stets verneint! Und das mit Recht; denn alles, was entsteht, Ist wert, daรŸ es zugrunde geht; Drum besser wรคr's, daรŸ nichts entstรผnde. So ist denn alles, was ihr Sรผnde, Zerstรถrung, kurz das Bรถse nennt, Mein eigentliches Element.
Nah, Iโ€™m done doing all the hard things. Iโ€™ve earned the right to do some easy things. Iโ€™ll do whatever I want at this point in my life. Iโ€™ve done a lifetime of hard & it didnโ€™t work out as planned. Why? Because the top 1% have enslaved the 99% & we are incapable of uniting and demanding better. Iโ€™ll choose whatever I want at this point. Thatโ€™s the privilege of a life well lived. Others can disagree all they want. Iโ€™ve lived by the rules society dictated & still have suffered losses like all others. I choose to recognize that the world is corrupt & seek to make it better. This doesnโ€™t require that I do anything different than what Iโ€™ve always done. Iโ€™ll continue learning & donate my resources to others & attempt to lift others when possible. All the while understanding itโ€™s a losing battle. Thatโ€™s life. Iโ€™m not going to tell anyone that they arenโ€™t living their best life just because I donโ€™t agree with them. Too many people are already claiming to understand far more than I can. I donโ€™t desire nor want to be a leader of humankind ever again. Iโ€™ve led people. Most donโ€™t genuinely care about other humans. Itโ€™s that simple. Iโ€™ve recognized this & can only control myself. Itโ€™s truly that easy. If others took self-accountability seriously the world would change. Iโ€™m in my forties & have raised fierce children to adulthood. They understand the world is corrupt. They seek to make their lives better while understanding the world is not fair. Too many seem to think the world owes them something. Fact is the world has always been unfair and hard for the majority of humanity. Most people want a quick easy answer & it doesnโ€™t exist. We must accept that there will always be hard times and good times. Let it be.
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FUCK EASY I'm fed up with easy. You don't want easy. The road to hell is paved with good intentions, and one of said intentions is making things too easy. Easy is staying on the couch. Easy is not putting on your running shoes. Easy is watching the porn, eating the junk food, binging the fucking stupid series. Easy is not sticking out. Easy is shutting up when you should be speaking out. Easy is compliance. Easy is saying the same thing, thinking the same thing, and liking the same thing as everyone else. Easy is kicking the can down the road. Easy is short-term gain for long-term losses. Easy is starting up the money printer. Easy is "papering over" failures. Easy is "This is too hard. This is not for me. Someone else should take care of it." Easy is not educating yourself. Easy is not taking responsibility. Easy is trusting a third party. Easy is not holding your own keys. Easy is comfortable. Easy is not having to think. Easy is not having to understand. Easy is the coddling of the mind. Doing things right is hard. Understanding things right is hard too. As is changing the status quo. But there's no improvement without change, no change without pain. Fuck easy.
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I then wonder why you are not openly supporting Monero, which is attacked from all sides, while BTC gets its bags pumped by Saylor and BlackRock. I know plenty of people that live on Monero, while most Bitcoiners if they at all pay with their coins use connected credit cards to their custodians. And who is even running nodes these days? Monero with its price being 1:500 of BTC sees more active nodes than BTC. Monero got delisted from all major exchanges being forced to bring decentralised exchanges and the circular economy to life. Talking about choosing the hard way, is talking about Monero.
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FUCK EASY I'm fed up with easy. You don't want easy. The road to hell is paved with good intentions, and one of said intentions is making things too easy. Easy is staying on the couch. Easy is not putting on your running shoes. Easy is watching the porn, eating the junk food, binging the fucking stupid series. Easy is not sticking out. Easy is shutting up when you should be speaking out. Easy is compliance. Easy is saying the same thing, thinking the same thing, and liking the same thing as everyone else. Easy is kicking the can down the road. Easy is short-term gain for long-term losses. Easy is starting up the money printer. Easy is "papering over" failures. Easy is "This is too hard. This is not for me. Someone else should take care of it." Easy is not educating yourself. Easy is not taking responsibility. Easy is trusting a third party. Easy is not holding your own keys. Easy is comfortable. Easy is not having to think. Easy is not having to understand. Easy is the coddling of the mind. Doing things right is hard. Understanding things right is hard too. As is changing the status quo. But there's no improvement without change, no change without pain. Fuck easy.
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Perky 1 year ago
not sticking out is not fucking easy jackass this is the writing of someone who has never done shit
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MarsIronPI 1 year ago
Easy is using proprietary social media platforms because that's where your friends are instead of getting them to move to a free platform. (Anyone got tips on how to do this?)
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Odysseus 1 year ago
No idea. I tell people twitter is violence and nostr is conversation. Sadly too many are still addicted to hate porn. Hopefully once they migrate they experience the difference for themselves.
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Odysseus 1 year ago
Gave me a lol. Worth a zap ๐Ÿ˜‚
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rtbit 1 year ago
I love this! Life is NOT easy. If you go for easy, you miss most of what life have for you. When life is hard, and it forces you to change, than you feel you are alive.
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EchDel 1 year ago
The road to hell is paved.
There is absolutely nothing wrong with doing a difficult thing for a long time the right way. Don't be lazy; don't be impatient. Be correct and complete.
Gigi's avatar Gigi
FUCK EASY I'm fed up with easy. You don't want easy. The road to hell is paved with good intentions, and one of said intentions is making things too easy. Easy is staying on the couch. Easy is not putting on your running shoes. Easy is watching the porn, eating the junk food, binging the fucking stupid series. Easy is not sticking out. Easy is shutting up when you should be speaking out. Easy is compliance. Easy is saying the same thing, thinking the same thing, and liking the same thing as everyone else. Easy is kicking the can down the road. Easy is short-term gain for long-term losses. Easy is starting up the money printer. Easy is "papering over" failures. Easy is "This is too hard. This is not for me. Someone else should take care of it." Easy is not educating yourself. Easy is not taking responsibility. Easy is trusting a third party. Easy is not holding your own keys. Easy is comfortable. Easy is not having to think. Easy is not having to understand. Easy is the coddling of the mind. Doing things right is hard. Understanding things right is hard too. As is changing the status quo. But there's no improvement without change, no change without pain. Fuck easy.
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FEW_BTC 11 months ago
Love this... super cool that a post from 2023 can rise to the top and blip on my radar. Kudos for the great post... looking forward to hearing what you have to say in the future.
Sooo, I'm currently creating some more AI music and could use some feedback. For anyone who wants to listen to some tracks and share their opinion, continue reading. My idea was to build a Mixtape album based in Gigi's fantastic "Fuck easy" post, which is almost a finished song lyric in itself: View quoted note โ†’ I am very aware that AI created content completely clashes with the theme of that post - but maybe it proves a point as well. Maybe it's ironic, I don't know. I've currently created 13 tracks with different genres... some of which are not too bad. But I suppose I'll replace some tracks based on feedback. Here is a link with a web player. Feel free to reply with suggestions.
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kev 2 months ago
Easy now or hard later. The choice is always up to the individual
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kev 2 months ago
Easy now leads to hard later
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FEW_BTC 2 months ago
strong men create easy times... weak men take advantage of them.
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