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image I wrote a short rant called "fuck easy" a couple of days ago. I've been listening to podcasts and after the 5th person complaining that nostr is too hard (is it, really?) I was fed up and typed this out on my phone. I hope that we can return to a point, culturally, where "hard" is okay, just like the first level of the original Super Mario was hard. Coddling everyone's mind has led us to the upside-down clown world we're currently living in, and coddling everyone's body has led to less-than-optimal health, to put it mildly. In the Bitcoin world, coddling users and making things "easy" has led to Coinbase-by-default and other stupid bullshit, and I truly am fed up with all of that. There is a better way, but the "better" isn't necessarily "easy."

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Nintendo actually guages general player skill for their new Mario games by making focus group respondents play level 1-1 of the original SMB. You would be surprised how many respondents fail to beat the level before running out of Mario lives. This is why all the new 2D Mario games hand out extra lives like there is no tomorrow
Nostr takes some effort initially, as an almost 50 year old, non-techie who first owned a pc in my twenties I managed fine. As I tell young people every day; life is hard, don't let anyone tell you otherwise. You must always be improving, physically and mentally, and pushing forward, because life will flatten you if you're not.
Spot on as always Sir. Light/idle hands make devils work. Find the struggle and get stuck in. Run, lift, fight the fight, swim butterfly, swing kettlebells, study, cold showers, hot saunas, fast, stretch, tell the truth, call out bullshitters, don’t conform….just seek out what is hard and embrace it.
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I dropped processed foods over a year ago and, even though I got a lot healthier, I noticed I still had some problems with energy and stubborn fat I couldn’t lose. I did more lab work and found that my gut was severely damaged. Years of fiat food and fiat medicine take time to fix. As I started to fix some of these issues I noticed I have better energy and cleaner focus. I’m convinced that it is legitimately harder for people today to say “fuck easy” because there is something wrong physiologically.
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What did you do to fix that? I started eating milk kefir and Kombucha which made a huge difference for me. I always suffered an intolerance to milk. This largely went away when I started drinking kefir. My wife used to do the most rotten farts that would stink out the bedroom, this was a problem for about a year. As soon as she started drinking my home made Kombucha they stopped smelling and haven't smelled in months.
It’s good to “take it easy” after working hard for a period of time, I personally have gone through this cycle over the past 6 months. Aspiring to perpetually take it easy is in my opinion weak minded. It’s why I hate the concept of “retirement”.
I think what makes it "hard" is people not wanting to be responsible and be accountable for their stuff. These last generations have been configured to always assume they have a safety net. It will take time and younger generations go embrace and take the plunge is this new Era that was, until recently, straight out of science fiction or living in the heads of Cypherpunks.
It IS a little tricky to remember the little details of how to start in Nostr. I don't find that a bad thing, just means there is an incentive to write a simple guide to make the tricky untricky... I think Alby do a great job in making the hard simple...
Well, I'm just after setting up my account, so I am by no means a power user 😅 The opposite of ''hard'' doesn't have to necessarily be ''easy''. It can also be soft as in child's play, the soft focus of being curious, having an open mind, the joy metric of wonder, discovering something exciting, fascinating & new, making mistakes, learning through breaking things and embarrassing yourself, falling into the void abyss of public relays and picking yourself up again... Stepping into the unknown is like a micro death. The death of the ego.
I started stacking not long ago, and it is extremely easy. Saylor, Saif and Jeff Booth just explained the basic in 3 hours. Taking self custody is super easy with the coldcard + sparrow and buying BTC is easier than banking with strike. IMO builders and the minds on the BTC space hava already paved the way and made it easy. No excuses. P.S. I am very dumb, if I can, anyone can. But they won't.
I think the upcoming Satellite drop is going to impress most. The newly retooled back end protocol makes it super fast and the front end UX has new features most people have been waiting for. Your bud @Stuart is about to impress us all. I've been following his progress IRL and got sneak previews of what's coming. Can't say more until it's drops. It's a culmination of 15 months work. Gonna be amazing. Watch out Damus and Primal it's about to get real.