"Delivering advice assumes that our cognitive apparatus rather than our emotional machinery exerts some meaningful control over our actions. We will see how modern behavioral science shows this to be completely untrue." (Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Fooled by Randomness)

GM

“You can just do [x]” is such a powerful meme and a reason why I love nostr. Human agency is so powerful. If you don’t like the way something is, build something better.

My original oil painting from @🟠 isolabellart is finally framed and on my office wall. Looks great. Grazie mille, Carlo!

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GM Time to feed the little GM bots some sats

donald trump can get fucked. just in case you’re wondering where I stand

“[Think] these crooks tapped your phone to not have a file on you?” Run the Jewels, Talk to Me

GM

I deleted my Twitter account in May 2023. I realized that I had no interest in giving them my data for free, nor did I want to pay $8/month for full access. Doomscrolling was making my life worse, not better. Now with nostr, I give my data freely because it’s accessible to anyone. I pay way more than $8/month to @primal and @Damus. Zaps alone are at least $20/month 😅. But it’s a different mindset. You choose what you pay for. You pay for apps that you believe in. You pay for the content you want to see more of. I get a lot of value from nostr and I’m happy to give back. #value4value

"Arguably, in expectation, a dentist is considerably richer than the rock musician who is driven in a pink Rolls Royce, the speculator who bids up the price of impressionist paintings, or the entrepreneur who collects private jets. For one cannot consider a profession without taking into account the average of the people who enter it, not the sample of those who have succeeded in it." (Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Fooled by Randomness)