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reading old Marschal McLuhan transcripts... this quote twisted my mind today: "Organized ignorance can be a great asset when approaching the unfamiliar"

It seems so obvious, but I con't to struggle to wrap it up as a warm cozy blanket as the snow storm rages outside. In another Bitcoin podcast today. I am hit with with the mantra: "Don't trust, verify" By 2016 then matra started to edge me, in way that I could not speak it outloud anymore. Something is off. Bitcoin verification doesn't access external truth is were I am stuck at. At best it It may create a "consensual domain" through shared operation. There is always a point of trust - just deeper away lost in abstraction in some git repo. The best re-framing I have is the following: 1. First-order reading: "Don't trust, verify" = Replace trust with verification 2. Second-order reading: "Don't trust, verify" = Use verification to create trustworthy results 3. ???? currently working on this 3rd articulation. Shared ideas are welcomed.

"Effective Bitcoin Citizenry" vs " "Effective Bitcoin Global Citizenry" " What is your first reaction to these phrases? - Too WEF? - Does it resonate as a positive? - Does it evoke optimism or skepticism? I tried to investigate into this notion in my latest field-note: 5 Core Learning Processes.

Teaching Bitcoin can be deceptively hard - the common tactic "just tell them the facts" has been a slippery slope in my experience.. Thoughts?

There is a difference --> understanding vs knowing Bitcoin understanding vs knowing has a distinction that I want to learn more about in 2026. I think nostr is the perfect environment.

The space-time problem learning about Bitcoin: HOT STOVE: Action → immediate consequence → learning (WORKS) BITCOIN: Action → consequence years/decades later → learning (BROKEN) Action → consequence across global network → learning (BROKEN)

Does this work? Using the nostr-obsidian write plugin - so far the draft publish does not seem to work. Testing the short note.

There is something profound in common American "rule of thumb" wisdom. For example... 1. "A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush." 2. "An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure." Simple and effect. The roots of these easy to grasp phrases are found in St Thomas Aquinas words - paraphrased as ‘the slenderest knowledge that may be obtained of the highest things is more desirable than the most certain knowledge obtained of lesser things’. ‘Slender’ knowledge is here put in opposition to ‘certain’ knowledge. And what is this notion of "highest thing"? Who determines what higher things are? I am pretty sure most readers here will agree "self-custody" is a higher thing than custodial. Are there more Bitcoin distinctions?

My dad often listen to a song from the 50's or 60's - Nat King Cole vibes and more Cole Porter touch. The one I remeber the most "Love for Sale" by Dexter Gordon.... the opening " "...this next song is about.... ... Old love, new love, every love but TRUE love" then the music 🎶 🎷 🎹 I was luck, dad knew better than to lecture about such things. I am sure he would have been a master orange piller.

Augustine, in his classic Confessions - of which I confess have read onloy parts - but relay on my weak understanding - portrays faith not as blind irrationality but as a necessary step beyond reason's boundaries. I often think back to and read St Augustine when I start to ponder the mysteries of Bitcoin's existence.

My favorite holiday card this season had this quote: "The presents at the table are always better than the ones under the tree" For some reason this really moved me in an unexpected and surprising emotional way. I wishing all the best this merry season 🎄 Merry Christmas.

But can Bitcoin go further than classic definitions such as, but not limited to: 1. Payment network or store of value 2. Monetary network What if... ... this self-organizing system It's not just a mind observing reality. It creates the reality it observes?

Does anybody else see the problem of methods used in Bitcoin Education? Every 3 years I come back to look for a method of teaching that reflects the so called autopetic - self-producting - nature of Bitcoin. I do NOT see it. I need help to find it if it is out there. Every bitcoiner knows about fiat-food and fiat-health. So why not rebel agains fiat-education?

The "orange pill" is not a transfer event—it's a birth event. Do you know the difference? Would you agree with the statement "Saylor and his MSTR quest for ONE MILLION BTC is a bitcoin-proxy disaster waiting to happen?" I think about this alot. I final wrote about it in a field note: you can't copy a process.

UPDATE: BTC Rekt-Custody ratio (RCR) step 1 of 4 completed. I am not just writing about knowledge and understanding - but build tools for orange pilling my normi-family. One by one. The tool keeps evolving - once it was a notebook, then one spreadsheet, then 12 spreadsheets... now it is a MVP flask-docker app with PgADMIN. I just posted the Vision Doc for anybody - Coders and the like - interested to collaborate on orang-pill design. Here is a the sample screenshot... when degens trie to release their hard-cold-wallet storage BTC for shitcoins... Create a MODERN btc-centric Portfolio Tool:

Do you remember the first time trying to recreate a favorite recipe—maybe Grandma's pie, or mom's cookies? You probably watched them make it a hundred times. It never comes out the same. Sound familiar? We all have some version of this happening—yet we often fail to see the connection between this phenomenon and our understanding of learning. There's a technical term for it: Tacit Knowledge. I call it hidden-in-plain-sight knowledge—the heart of the learning-puzzle. As bitcoin educators - you probable have that "magic touch" - that thing basketball coaches call "court sense". I also think it has a big role in understanding the orange-pill problem when you are the only Bitcoiner at a family dinner table. I wrote a few words about this in my latest article/field-note:

Field Note: You Can

You cannot copy a process. You cannot transfer understanding. You cannot orange-pill someone through information alone. This is the deepest implica...

How do you explain Bitcoin to normies? What worked? Most of us know this "knowledge gap" - were hesitation and bewilderment sets in when we start talking about miners and nodes and limited supply. I think most of us have learnt this basic lesson: "Concepts are not things that can be changed just by telling facts." In the end you can't lecture someone into understanding Bitcoin - hence I have big respect for all those Bitcoin doer's like @BTC Sessions The irony here is that I just post my supplement notes - called field notes - that act as bridges between articles in my Ecology of Bitcoin Series. Hopefully it does not feel like a lecture.

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Field Note: Knowledge vs Understanding - Auveki Garten Node

The gap between theory and practice is the focus for every trainer, educator or parent - it is where the UNEXPECTED occurs. This field note dives ...