Good morning, Nostr. Your attention is the energy that grows whatever it touches. This isn’t philosophy, it’s protocol. What you focus on expands. What you ignore atrophies. The content doesn’t matter. Whether you’re drawn to it, scrolling past it unconsciously, or actively resisting it, your attention feeds it all the same. No exceptions. Take inventory. Where is your attention actually going? Does it align with the world you want to see more of, or the one you want to see less of? I fail at this constantly. You probably will too. But I’m starting to realize this might be the highest leverage point we have for changing what shows up in our feeds, our minds, and ultimately our lives. What are you choosing to amplify today?​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Gm. The Lord bids us to come and worship Him with His people this day. Let us gather together in His presence with grateful hearts.

Bitcoin is the first time in human history that the boundary between speech and property has collapsed into a single act. Let me explain. When you broadcast a #Bitcoin transaction, you’re simultaneously speaking (publishing data) and transferring property. The same act does both. This isn’t a metaphor or analogy. It’s literally true. For centuries, we’ve built separate legal frameworks for expression versus possession because we assumed they were fundamentally different types of human action. Free speech law and property law operate on different principles. But Bitcoin reveals this distinction might be arbitrary. This creates a logical trap for control systems. You can’t restrict the property transfer without restricting speech. You can’t ban the speech act without banning thought itself. Every financial regulation becomes a speech regulation. Every censorship rule becomes a property rule. The disruption isn’t just to money. It’s to the conceptual architecture underneath any system that assumed speech and property were separate domains that could be governed separately. Bitcoin proved they can be the same thing, which means all those separate frameworks were built on a false premise.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Gm

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Gm Nostr.

Your time and attention is possibly your most valuable commodity. Guard it accordingly.

Look, humor is fine. But when the joke requires you to fundamentally misunderstand who Jesus was and what He accomplished, it stops being funny and starts being propaganda of a different sort. Jesus wasn’t an agent of earthly powers. He was and is the King of kings, and every knee will bow to Him, including Caesar’s and every CIA director who ever lived.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ View quoted note →

Before I post this and people think I’m just trying to farm zaps, I don’t want a single Sat/Zap for this. Go find someone else creating value and light them up instead.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ With that said, I’ve been zapping today and realized something…When you’re receiving, you’re passive. You’re the endpoint in someone else’s choice. But when you’re out there distributing zaps with intention, you become a force. You’re allocating your attention, your approval, your currency, and in doing so, you’re reshaping what gets rewarded around you. Receiving validation feels good but changes nothing about who you are. It’s empty calories. But choosing who deserves your zap, developing the taste and judgment to reward what others overlook, that transforms you into someone with standards, vision, and agency. So yes, enjoy your zaps. But understand that the days you spend zapping others with almost violent generosity are the days you’re actually building something, a reputation for recognizing value, a network of people you’ve lifted, and the discernment to know what’s worth amplifying in a world drowning in noise. Don’t just wait for the hit. Go out and create some momentum for others.

She’s right that we can’t connect with everybody. And we shouldn’t try. But we can be intentional about expanding beyond our current bubble. Not through passive scrolling, but through active bridging. The feed mentality says, scroll and consume whatever appears. What I propose is something different. Actively signal the voices you value so they can reach networks beyond your own. Then be intentional about which of those new voices you actually engage with deeply. Quality over quantity. But first, we have to know the quality exists. She’s fighting against passive consumption. I’m fighting against invisible fragmentation. Both problems are real. And honestly, I think we need both solutions working together. View quoted note →