You don't need more motivation. You need fewer excuses. You need convictions that survive pressure. Discipline that survives bad days. And a standard higher than your own comfort. That's today's 26 minute episode 🎙️⚡️ https://fountain.fm/episode/3l7vqsA4pubXtA2se1iM

Virtue is not something you have. Virtue is something you repeat until it has you.

People treat Nostr like it’s bleeding their secrets. The relay isn’t spying on your post, it’s holding the post you walked up and yelled. Want something nobody stores? Don’t write it down and sign it. The fear isn’t of Nostr. It’s of the basic fact that public means public. If that’s too much, you were never going to like the open internet anyway.

Evil rarely shows up as a villain. It shows up as a system that profits while you and your neighbor are too busy at each other’s throats to look up. You’re allowed to refuse. You just decide the small stuff stays small and start treating the man across the fence like he might be on your side. Because he probably is. The whole apparatus runs on the assumption that you won’t think. That you’ll react and move on. The moment you actually stop and think for yourself, you become the one variable they can’t price in. They don’t fear your anger because they can sell you more of it. They fear that you might start thinking. Because at the end of the day they care what you think, and a man who thinks for himself is the most dangerous thing they’ll ever meet. Gm Nostr

Breaks are healthy! Take a break!

Weak hands exist so strong hands have something to buy

Why don’t the 99% of us who aren’t offended by everything quit catering to the 1% who are? Also, GM

There is no such thing as a grouchy old person. The truth is, once you get old you stop being polite and start being honest.

policy update I zap for real engagement and comedy if you’ve been showing up and I’ve been silent, that’s getting fixed async function handleReply(event) { if (isThoughtful(event) || isFunny(event)) { await sendZap(event.pubkey, amount); } }

One minute you’re 21, staying up all night drinking beer, eating pizza, and doing sketchy crap just for fun. Then… In a blink of an eye you’re 40, drinking water, eating kale, and you can’t do any fun sketchy crap because you pulled a muscle putting on your socks.

Americans don’t cope. They escalate. You give an American a bad situation and he deep fries it, puts it on a stick, and charges twelve dollars at a state fair. That’s funnier. That’s objectively funnier. View quoted note →

Silence is always better than bullshit

We thought it was our ability to love that made us human, but it turns out it was actually our ability to select each image containing a boat

WHEN I WAS A KID, THERE WERE NO PHONES OR TABLETS. WE READ CEREAL BOXES AT BREAKFAST