One of the problems with listening to the fall of civilizations podcast while doing work is it’s kind of depressing

Like brambles along a forest path, I tend to rub people the wrong way.

Every time I go to sort through my children’s clothing to find the stuff they’ve outgrown all my motivation leaves me

Time for a short break from cleaning my kids‘s room to tell codex what to do on the Pokémon card manager project

Listening to this while cleaning

Why do people wanna call it bitcoins/bits instead of Satoshi‘s? Sats adds a bit of culture to the denomination. It’s basically the penny.

It’s quite peculiar to be on nostr while abstaining from social media. You catch glimpses of what’s happening in the world that should make you concerned or outraged, yet you can simply move on with your day.

Amazon apparently sold some copies of my yo-yo book last year, as they sent me the royalty tax form for tax time. Now, I’m wondering where the money is.

Running out of codex credits has a silver lining. It’s a forced vacation. And I’ve identified what I want to focus on when they’re back tomorrow.

eBay sales have slowed, I wonder how much of the decline is the post holiday slump, how much is macro, and how much is platform.

I feel like a lot of conspiracy theories can just be wiped away with “inflation“.

Listening to this this morning

Do you think of attention as a currency? Perhaps more of a commodity that can be refined for various results.

It’s been a while since I sat down to plan but since my workflow is on hold for a few days I might as well.

Listening to this while playing some random fps.

One of the things that keeps bothering me about modern social networks is how following someone is an all or nothing deal. I might follow you because you yo-yo, or because you are doing something interesting with AI, or because you are experimenting with plant cloning. That is the reason I am there. But the feed does not stop at that boundary. I also get everything else you want to talk about. Your opinions, your arguments, your beliefs, your unrelated interests. If you think about it like a Venn diagram of two people, the overlap that caused the follow in the first place is usually pretty small. That is the part I care about. When the system keeps pushing the non overlapping parts in front of me, the parts where we diverge, it creates friction that did not need to exist. Over time, that friction becomes the reason to unfollow, even though the original reason for following never went away. That tension is a big part of why I am building small, focused web apps on Nostr, like YoYoStr. I am curious about what other people in a hobby are making, learning, or struggling with. I am not especially interested in consuming the full surface area of their thoughts. I want shared context without mandatory total exposure.

Why do so many notes in the feed on @primal that mention people say @ unknown? Do I need to refresh my relays or is this something else?

Three days till my codex credits refill… what am I supposed to do with myself?

I need a nostr app where I can filter my feed by the topics those who I’m following are posting about. Typically not interested in seeing news, politics, Luddite vibes, but don’t want to mute or unfollow certain people because one of our interests overlap 😂

My kids and I are on our third lap through Harry Potter. We’re on book two of Narnia and book one of Artemis Fowl. It’s almost painful to read Narnia out loud. The children and other characters speak so properly and a lot of it is dated. Wish it could be rewritten from today’s perspective. Through that’s basically The Magicians and I’m NOT reading that to them 😂