My open heart surgery journey
This is the journey of my open heart surgery, from finding out I had an issue, through the surgery, and entire recovery process. I had documented all of this on Twitter, but I do not want it to go away when Elon decides that non-paying users are second class citizens and nukes their content. It will live on via Nostr.
Random thoughts on life, humans and happiness
Some stuff I wrote last year 🤷♂️
Aliens are here! Or are they?
Random thoughts about the UAP hearing.
Imagined vs actual startup journey
A healthy dose of realism keeps the wild expecations in check.
The impossibility of controlling your own identity (with caveats)
Because our identity is bound to our relationships with other people, we can't decide how we will or should be perceived, this reality should be reflected in the protocol.
Designing for scale beyond universally guarenteed reach.
The guarantee of universal reach is impossible and should be broken at the protocol level so we can achieve it in practice without expensive filtering.
The Impossible Problem of Social Media
The problem of maintaining signal-to-noise for large delivery-by-default networks is intractable since the effort required scales non-linearly with the size of the network.
Stackchain is for Builders: How Building on Stackchain led to Building on Nostr
This is the story of two Bitcoiners that met through Stackchain and ended up building a Nostr business together.
Zaps on Nostr reward creators, provide true feedback, and are helping to build the value for value social economy. But, what are Zaps?
Zaps on Nostr are payments that can be sent to other users as a way of tipping, showing appreciation, or providing feedback to content creators. We're building the value for value economy on Nostr, one Zap at at time.
NIP-01
Basic protocol flow description
AI Risk: Will AI Take All Our Jobs? What Marc Andreessen gets wrong.
We can't assess the impact of AI on jobs based on previous technological developments. In this short article I take a look at Marc Andreessen's tweet and explain why his take is incorrect.
Unpopular zap opinion expanded
Clients that cater to a broader audience more likely to retain users in nostr social use cases.
NIP-05 is not Verification
What is NIP-05 really?
Random bits of questionable wisdom
Random bits of questionable wisdom
ChatGPT Startup Ideas (by ChatGPT)
A list of startup ideas for the soon to be introduced plugins for ChatGPT
Say goodbye to groups and channels
Unless you have some private projects that require secrecy, you should just organize conversations on nostr.
