Laziness isn’t just a character flaw. It’s generational theft. The boy who won’t stack wood today is training to be the man who can’t provide tomorrow. Mental laziness, physical laziness. Same disease, different symptoms. Your habits today are your children’s inheritance tomorrow. Choose accordingly.

Gm. Your ideas don’t have an expiration date. That project you shelved two years ago? Still good. That wild thought you had at 3am? Still viable. Time doesn’t rot the things that matter, only our courage to revisit them does. So crack open that old notion, taste it again, then build something that outlasts the noise.

Sudden wealth triggers identity disruption. Every interaction becomes weighted with suspicion and obligation. Going dark isn’t cowardice, it’s often psychological survival. But the wealthy who stay engaged and help humanity flourish without selling out have something in common: they decided what kind of person they’d be before the wealth arrived. This is critical. We need to make these decisions now, before our Bitcoin success story unfolds. What will you stand for when you no longer need anyone? How will you deploy resources to genuinely help others flourish? The temptation to disappear or sell out will be immense. Every wealthy person faces pressure to optimize purely for self interest, to monetize influence, to gate keep knowledge. Resisting that requires pre commitment. Bitcoin selects for low time preference in wealth building. We need the same discipline for character building. The people who matter most will be those who chose their values before the test arrived, who decided wealth would be a tool for flourishing, not an escape from community. We know where this is going. Prepare the person you’ll become accordingly.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

I agree with @Ryan on this. Subscribe just seems more definitionally accurate than Follow because it simply means you’re opting into their content stream. It carries less ideological weight. You can subscribe to someone’s thoughts without necessarily believing in or adopting their worldview. It’s a more honest description of the actual relationship. I want to receive what you’re broadcasting, but that doesn’t mean I’m a follower in any deeper sense.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

The “follow” metaphor really does come with a lot of centralized social media implications. It suggests a platform is mediating the relationship rather than you just choosing to receive someone’s signed messages through relays. View quoted note →

Every day Nostr drops gold that would get buried everywhere else. Not viral. Not trending. Just real. My motivations aren’t complicated…I want conversations that make me think, connections that are human, and a place where saying what you mean isn’t a terms of service violation. Found it. Staying.

Hope everyone is having a fantastic Friday.

Wait for it… “Hey guys, thanks for coming back to my Feed. I’m gonna get to what I want to say but first… follow me, hit that like button and smash that zap button.” Like a street performer rattling a tip jar before they’ve done the trick. How about you just curate good content and quit begging for people’s attention so the algorithm feeds your narcissistic ego. The parasocial economy has turned everyone into intellectual panhandlers. Someone could be explaining how to save a life and they’d still pause to remind you about notifications. We’ve normalized putting the sales pitch before the substance. The creators who actually built something didn’t grovel. They made things people couldn’t help but share. Now everyone thinks success means performing desperation in the first ten seconds of every piece of content. If you need a scripted tantrum about engagement metrics before you get to the point, maybe you don’t have a point. Good work doesn’t need a warm up act.

Reward the askers. When someone admits uncertainty or requests clarification, treat it as intellectual honesty rather than weakness to exploit. Answer thoroughly without condescension. The culture shifts when curiosity becomes higher status than certainty, when “I’m trying to understand” gets more engagement than “You’re wrong because…” We can architect the protocol but we have to culture the norms. Start by being the person who asks instead of assuming. Others will notice. Some will follow. Dialogue resurrects one honest question at a time.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​