Chess is Bitcoin

I've been having a lot of fun playing chess with Bitcoin friends these past few days. We've been playing 3 days games so it gives us plenty of time to play no matter the schedule. I'm looking to add a few battlefields to my campaign. If you want war send me an invite ⚔️ https://link.chess.com/friend/LM6VUq

Someone should build chess on nostr imo

Everything I bookmark I know I'll never go back to it.

Oh yeah that's prize worthy

Gm

While keeping in mind the original book design is red/black, which one would you go for?

The problem with being an influencer is that at the end of the day you have nothing to sell but yourself.

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I think Latrica finally crashed out. No posts in over a month.

Entrepreneurship used to be about building things — real production, real value, real mastery. Today, it feels more like a game of taxes. The modern entrepreneur spends as much time navigating deductions, write-offs, credits, compliance, subsidies, and reporting rules as they do refining the product itself. The system turns the business owner into a part-time accountant, part-time lawyer, and only occasionally a creator. You don’t optimize for excellence anymore. You optimize for paperwork. Success is often determined not by who produces the best good, but by who understands the tax code well enough to survive. Whole industries form not around innovation but around arbitrage — exploiting incentives, avoiding penalties, managing cash flow through bureaucracy rather than through customers. It creates a strange distortion: The most valuable skill becomes knowing the rules, not creating value. And when the rules grow thicker than the market signals, you incentivize a new type of entrepreneur — one who wins by mastering the maze rather than mastering the craft. This is the quiet tragedy of the modern economy. The reward structure favors compliance over competence. Real entrepreneurship — the kind that builds durable goods, solves real problems, and leaves a mark — now fights upstream against a system that treats creation as a secondary activity and regulation as the main one.

The difference between a text block and a real book is the binding. If it's glued it's a text block. If it's sewn it's a book.

I am much more of an Artist than a sales bro. Which is why I'm likely to tell you how what I make could be better before I sell it to you.

This is crazy

Maybe bonsai seed giveaway was bottom signal

Someone just informed me that tree seeds are free in nature?? Wtf capitalism!

I did 1 leather bound, then 21, now 210. Fearless.

I found a new meditation practice. Looking at incense stick burning. You just sit down and your activity is to look at it slowly burn. Last night I ended up reaching a level of clarity that felt psychedelic. Not sure if that was mindfulness, but for a minute I got myself in a moment of psychedelic clarity where "I was" everything except the object I was looking at (the tip of the burning stick). This may not be fully accurate but it's the best way I can explain right now. Incredible experience.