"Yeah there are way more projects updated in 2026 than I expected" ...Thought Process "That is very strange, as we're currently in 2023! I suspect there might be a simple typo, and you meant to say 2022 or 2023, but let's double-check to be sure." .... great....

If I could just stop using a mouse, I might be happier. Its like the keyboard on my phone. I am constantly clicking on the wrong thing. I guess I should just accept it. On the phone, I use talk-to-text all of the time. It's wrong a lot, but I've given up there. "Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed." — Alexander Pope

Tried to send a DM, sorry if it did go through and now I'm spamming you @ODELL Any tips or good resources for folks newer to the space on navigating funding? Maybe an episode on it sometime? Especially in a high PoW, low time preference space. But if you are looking to leave (or already left...) your corporate job to work on open space freedom tech full time, it's a radical and scary shift in mindset.

I just came across this gem from 2018, the question mark comma. Sent me down a quick rabbit hole, pulled up an old episode and listened to @Paul weekly segment. Figured it was worth the share.

I've been referencing this call to arms from @calle from a few months ago on citadel dispatch a bunch lately. "I mean, what I wanna say is just hoping that someone out there is listening and doesn't know what to do with their job or their life and feels inspired by the open source world that we're building. And, I hope that if you're a developer out there and you don't like your corporate job, that you can consider coming into the Bitcoin ecosystem or Nostr ecosystem and, helping us to move this kind of revolutionary project forward. We need every single person who can help...." When I heard this it spoke directly to me. I had been thinking of reaching out to @ODELL after leaving a corporate job I hated, only knowing I wanted to work on Bitcoin or freedom tech, and get back to writing code. But the space is huge, and getting started somewhere is overwhelming. Then Calle had that call to arms and I decided to start looking to contribute to cashu. I'm not there yet, I've learned a bunch and still know almost nothing, but hopefully soon I'll be there.