From The Count of Monte Cristo “Misfortune is needed to plumb certain mysterious depths in the understanding of men; pressure is needed to explode the charge. My captivity concentrated all my faculties on a single point. They had previously been dispersed, now they clashed in a narrow space; and, as you know, the clash of clouds produces electricity, electricity produces lightning and lightning gives light.” That’s the blueprint. Pressure. Concentration. Explosion. Lightning. Creation.

One word: insufferable

Green lines on point. As usual.

Got excited there for a second...

“Architecture is frozen music” - Goethe Architecture and music are both are inspired by what’s inside. If you wonder why both are so bad today, look inside & look around.

On this day, two years ago, I told you, you were mine. Today, I renew that promise. You’re mine, forever woman. They say that women are crazy. You can often double the level of crazy with a Latina. With you, mi Esposita, that doubling occurs again. You’re a wild animal, a force of nature - and I love you for it. You have continued to enrich my life, support my endeavours (however crazy) and challenge me (in every way imaginable), and I look forward to more of this as we begin the next chapter of our lives together. Last year I spoke about the unlikely circumstances under which we met in Costa Rica. Me, an Australian nomad/scamdemic escapee, and you, a Dominican model & aspiring coach trying to set up her own little online business. This year, I’d like to reflect for a moment on the past year and how things have changed, plus a lesson learnt. We’ve now settled into a new country, established a long term routine and begun to build roots. We’ve both found our groove in the relationship. You, as the home-maker, house-wife, cleaner, chef, pilates pro and aspiring momma. Me, as the lunatic in the office, staring at the screen for hours, writing, building and yelling at people on the phone - trying to hustle his way into making a dent in the universe. There’s a lot of trad-wife and trad-husband stuff on socials these days, and I expect most of it is fake. In fact, I know many people who show one side online while in reality it’s completely different. We decided to show nothing online about us (other than the odd anniversary poast like this) but actually live that life for real. For everyone reading, I recommend the latter approach: It’s healthier for the soul (although maybe less so for the bank account & follower count). That being said - if there’s something I’ve learned from marriage - is that it’s not all smooth sailing. Like I said, women are crazy - and men have been trying to understand them since the dawn of time (with little to show for it).. And perhaps therein lies the problem. You don’t necessarily want to be understood, but instead want presence. This is often mentioned theoretically, but takes on a whole new meaning practically. If there’s something you’ve taught me about women (without a single word), it’s this. And it’s made me a better man. You can read all the books & tweets you want, but real life is where rubber meets the road. As Bruce Lee once said: “Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.” So thankyou for being my wifey, my little sidekick, my clown, my slow cooker, my personal chef, my gym buddy, my home-maker, my personal intuition-device, my little model, and all the other things you are and plan to be (including your 99 personalities). Love you, and I look forward to continuing our journey into wherever this life and this crazy-ass world leads. @Paloma

Why Nostr is struggling… There is too much of an overlap with X, not only in the feature sets among the primary applications, but more importantly, in the kind of audience that Nostr is catering to. Sure..censorship resistance at the protocol level is a differentiator, but the to the average person, you may as well be talking gibberish. They don’t know wtf a protocol is in the first place - let alone why it matters for censorship resistance to happen at that level, or more importantly, WHY they should trust Nostr to deliver on that promise. “Bcoz @jack said so” is not an argument. ———— Bluesky is a case in point here. It’s got a VERY similar feature set to X, claims to be open source / censorship resistant (similar narrative to Nostr), and is growing MUCH faster than Nostr, bc it has captured a key audience, ie; people with TDS and EDS (Elon Derangement Syndrome). https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/bluesky-signups-surge-uk-amid-musks-row-with-government-over-riots-2024-08-13/? I’ve been on there a few times, and the content quality is enough to make you want to throw up….but at the very least, it’s working for that kind of content, and for the people who want it. I don’t have a direct answer here..but I think it’s something to do with the over-emphasis on technicals. @ICQ mentioned increasing the emphasis on design the other day. I agree this is a move in the right direction. We’re taking a very design-focused approach with @Satlantis: Social Events (we’ll have ALOT more to show in the next 6wks). That being said, it’s not enough. IMO, Nostr is technically mature enough for us to go out there and talk about it to more people, and build a narrative BEYOND the 500 of us that are talking to each other on here. People like @PABLOF7z or @Gigi can correct me if I am wrong here. Maybe there’s alot more to do technically. But if I am right, I’d like to see more initiatives that are marketing oriented being supported by @HRF and @OpenSats and other coalitions. Maybe we even need a council of Nostr businesses, who together pool some funds to help drive some marketing initiatives? Whatever the case, we need to expand upon the Nostr narrative, make it more compelling and speak to more people about it. At the very least, we have to conquer then Bitcoiners. If we can’t get the segment who are into freedom money onto the freedom of speech network, we’re DOA. That’s a first step. I know @Tanja is working on a very cool initiative in relation to this. The Nostr Booth is IMO a great way to make Nostr more “real” for bitcoiners by having a physical presence at all the conferences. I know @utxo the webmaster 🧑‍💻 + @fiatjaf are doing some Podcast outreach. That’s super important too. @mcshane and crew are putting on Nostriga. Amazing. @miljan / @primal are doing great things with @paul keating, etc on the content side. I’ve got some things up my sleeve personally which I will begin to do once @Satlantis: Social Events is in a position to represent a NEW kind of Nostr-product.. But we need MOAR.. And…we also need to find another angle that is NOT about censorship resistance. That’s clearly not working against X. I don’t know the EXACT narrative or spin, but it has to be more “running towards” than “running from”. More white pill, less black pill. Anyway. I will probably turn this into an article. I’ve been thinking more and more about “writing in public” as we build Satlantis, and sharing more about how we’re thinking about growing a “network product” on top of a “network protocol”. If you think this was valuable, please repoast so more people can see and get involved in the discussion.

Typical… And you know what? The only thing actually stopping her from doing all those things now is her own stupid belief system.

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This whole thing is fucking insane. Multiculturalism was always going to end in blood. You can’t just force different cultures to coexist. It’s never worked, in the entire HISTORY of humanity. Read this. And start to wake up from the liberal retard hypnosis.

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Enough is enough

3 Life & Business Lessons from Leg Day... (Expanding in a post from the other day) Leg day is like a metaphor for life. You just DO the hard thing you don’t want to do, and you feel 1000 better afterwards. It’s the single best area of the body to exercise. Not just for your health and fitness, but for your hormones and a balanced aesthetic. It will do more to stem aging, lethargy & weakness than anything else you can do, or anyone can sell to you. Now...what are the three life & business lessons? 1. Do the hard thing. People skip leg day, in the same way they skip confrontations in life, or that big nagging problem in the business or relationship you need to handle, but you're scared to. It's painful, but after you do it, you will feel better. 2. Works on the foundations, that are “less visible” Success in business (and life) is more about what you did behind the scenes. It's consistently showing up, doing what you need to do, and working on the things that are invisible to the public eye. And when people find out (reminds me of Steve Job's insistence on making the inside of a. computer beautiful) they are in awe. Legs are similar. They're usually under your pants, or people don't notice. Until they do - and they're in awe. 3. Simple is best. Leg day does wonders for you hormonally (man or woman) too. It's infinitely better than all the biohacking nonsense. Same goes for business. All the bullshit "hacks" and "tricks" are short term noise. They might give you the illusion of an edge, but the basics always work best. It’s the simple (but hard) things that matter most. Credit to Tom Platz & @Paloma at the end there..

The greatest threat to humanity was and always will be the midwits. Unfortunately, this includes 98% of modern scientists. True scientific savants like the Newton's & Tesla's of the world understood that there was a difference between the study of matter, and the study of what matters. The former is empirical in nature, and progressive. You're always improving, adapting, refining, deconstructing and evolving. The latter is Lindy and timeless. The most important principles of life rarely change. Dominic Venner's definition of tradition comes to mind here: "Tradition is not the past, but that which does not pass" __________________ Trying to apply methodologies from the former onto the latter is not only stupid, but will yield sub-par results. Look no further than the lockdowns and transgenderism. Likewise, applying methodologies of the latter onto the former doesn't work well. See the tribes of aborigines who still think the world was created by a rainbow snake. There is a middle way, or more accurately put - a synthesis between both approaches - that requires knowing which questions are best answered (or even asked) in which broad domain. People like @ylecun cannot see beyond their own paradigm and they are prisoners to it. Ironically, this leads them into creating new religions and dogmas like "scientism" and keeps them of the wisdom and answers they purport to seek. ______________ One of the biggest issues we have today is the reverence and authority given to people like this. He's "chief of AI" at Meta - which people think makes him super smart. So they go ahead believing the dumb things he says (like go get boosted), and then to not feel like they were lied to, double down on their support of these new dogmas and become part of the NPC army. __________________ Ancient leaders knew where to put the scientists and technologists. And it was not in positions of ultimate authority, UNLESS they were men like Aristotle who could weave the two dimensions. And even then, it was Alexander who ruled, not Aristotle - and Aristotle today is only known thanks to the spirit and conquest of Alexander. Something to think about....

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Yesss. I’m looking forward to this. It’s very much needed, and I love that it’s a collaborative effort. Jason did an incredible job with the last 21 Questions book (bitcoin edition). I think this one will be even more important and I’m personally going to contribute again 🔥🔥 If you have 5min (see @Guy Swann's quote the other day), jump in here and help him get the best 21 questions picked ! View quoted note →

Damn. Nostr is really at the bottom here. Everyone should go in and upvote to bump up the numbers a little. If platforms like Buffer make it easy for creators to cross post to Nostr, it could increase the activity on here and give people an alternative path to discovering Nostr. Take a moment out to upvote:

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Nostr is a immutable social media protocol similar to Twitter.

Rare video. Carl Jung on why we need to study the human psyche:

Can anybody on here explain the pros and cons of NOSTR vs the DID spec from TBD ? Seems like the over arching ideas are similar. Just different implementations? Perhaps the TBD guys have spent more time architecting something cleaner? But Nostr clearly has a much more active community & actual users? What else ? https://developer.tbd.website/docs/web5/learn/decentralized-identifiers/ @PABLOF7z @Gigi @Derek Ross @jack

There’s a few reasons why this is actually the BEST way Trump could’ve closed his talk: 1. He’s the incoming commander in chief of the most important country in the world. He should be focused geopolitics and the big deals that need to be made for global sanity and stability - not on stupid bitcoin minutia. 1b) this is why I don’t like RFK. He’s simping way too much for Bitcoiners. He doesn’t have the presence or strength to take on the globalist shitfest. And certainly doesn’t have the balls to strengthen the US against other powers (Russia, China and globohomo). 2. It’s not a leaders job to micromanage & get in the way. In fact, I’d be worried if he was more interested in bitcoin. His job is to be aware, and delegate that to someone more interested and competent. 3. Bitcoin is STILL YOUNG!! I know some of you are naive enough to think we’re getting mass adoption this decade, but I’m sorry - we’re a 100yrs away. Not only do we need to the space to build, which benefits from such a posture (good luck with your little bitcoin thing), but more importantly, bitcoin needs time to grow and mature BEFORE governments of any kind take it more seriously - let alone the United States of fucking America. I have other reasons too… But I’m hungry and want to eat dinner. TBC… View quoted note →

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If you want to know why Kamala was chosen, this diagram, which I saw on Robert Malone’s Substack, explain it all. It’s not *all a conspiracy, but yes, there are also conspiracies. It’s not *all an agenda, but yes, there are also agendas. It’s not *all stupidity, but yes, there is a hell of a lot of stupidity. Layer in the fact that society is one big complex system, and you begin to see all kinds of madness emerge. That’s why it’s so important to keep a tether to that which works / does not pass (tradition) and to have strong, unwavering principles. The more things become malleable, relative and meaningless (all leftist concepts) the more prone evil is to rear its ugly head up.