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When you’re low status, barely anyone will listen. When you’re high status, everyone will listen but for the wrongs reasons… focused on who you are and what you will do with what you’re saying, instead of just listening intently to the raw ideas. The scarcity of free thought exists for all classes. It can’t be bought with fame or money, just as true friends cannot be. The people you can talk to who’ll listen and explore an idea for what it is, not letting who you are have an impact on the interpretation of the ideas, are worthwhile companions. This is the beauty of people who enjoy philosophical musings and a wandering imagination, even if those qualities don’t immediately lead to anything useful. Ironically, those qualities can lead to the most useful inventions and journeys in the long-term. Probably because they help cater to falling in love with the process/journey rather than only seeking the result/destination.

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Shamelessness is a great quality. -fuels error correction (iterating) ❌ -encourages forgiveness 🫂 -shield against cancel culture 🛡️ Pride and shame are interlinked. When you defend a flawed position, it’s pride and sunk cost that make it hard to let go — escaping the shame of admitting you had wrong (even if you were only partially wrong). Swallowing your own pride — it’s how we forgive others & let go of grudges, but it’s also how we iterate quicker… being able to let go of bad ideas is just as important as discovering and interconnecting profound ideas. Being shameless is a pretty good quality. It’s also a shield against feeling canceled — if you don’t care about their shaming, it’ll influence you less. The more you relish their praise (which distracts you from the hunt for the truth), the more their cancel culture will sting. Let your curiosity and desire for truth outweigh all of this shame, pride, and dissonance. Let it be your escape.

It’s now clear that Jupyter is currently the best open-source system for rendering math notation. It even lets you add html cells above your markdown code to format the markdown post, avoiding pesky errors like line breaking in titles when trying to mention a term encased in the $$ method AI often uses. It bridges to the style of markdown the AI models use most. VS code extensions (even with custom JSON settings) and other open-source editors were futile. Nostr should find a way to plug into Jupyter for paper publishing, instead of deciding between LaTeX or some other standard — Jupyter has options nested within it (LaTeX and beyond). It’s nice to see something open-source be so robust. It runs locally in the browser, offline.

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The quality of life, beyond the extension of life or proliferation of consciousness, is contingent on bodily health first and foremost… alongside the freedom to express yourself and basic human rights. It’s all one mission. There is no separation of fields. Nature is the only discipline…

The greatest journeys are worth the wait.

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BlueSky’s popularity is good news… it shows that the social network effort of one platform isn’t as powerful as we think. MySpace died… Facebook died… on a long enough time horizon, Nostr will have its moment. And if it’s built right, it should last longer than all that came before it — as a ubiquitous protocol.

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With great power comes great responsibility. 🏵️🕸️