Just sit there, spend a bit, open some LN channels, start being angel investor in the ecosystem.

My nym is the name of the protagonist of the novel "The Idiot", Prince Myshkin. He's a naive, not articulated, child-like russian guy that, despite being not very clever, triggers a lot of empaty in the reader. He turns out to be a better person than who's around him, despite his low intelligence.

He embodies the idea whereby sometimes The Good is not explainable. He's not articulate at all, but he's a better person than anyone else in the novel. Kind of precursor of Alyosha Karamazov' naivety.

Finally starting russian lessons. Wish me luck

Wow. I would love to hear more about this experience if possibile!!

Lol you can work 11 months and half, then spend all the hard earned sats to pay for some cappuccino coffee or a pizza at a crazy-swiss-price. And pay sats to merchants that don't really want them because they prefer the stable shitcoin they use over there. I mean, what could go wrong?

What's not clear?

That even though talking is free, that comes with a huge cost.

Commitment to what you said? Violence or love in words? Whatever that is, you name it.

I realized I've been spreading out words for years without deeping into meaning. Is the meaning of this word the exact thing I need to say? What do I really want to say? Which usually translates to "do you Know what you said?" Do you REALLY undestand stuff you talk about?

This is one of the funniest things that can be done with strangers, for example. I like this approach because it's so polarizing. If you get the other person to smile or laugh, you get an immediate connection. Otherwise they just consider you a mental case...which in my situation could even be the truth lol

Digital detox shall be part of every internet user's life. I like your compromises. As a side note with regards to writing and accessing documents offline, it's mental to see how many people use cloud-based services to do a simple thing that is writing. You shouldn't need an internet connection to write, cmon. To me the best writing setup - if you're willing to do typing and not handwriting - is to use plain text formats like markdown. No need for "no distraction mode" or any other thing...simply a blank page and the cursor. Then you can decide to upload files wherever you want or you can even do the chad thing of syncing them with a Versioning system like Git and self host or use a privacy oriented Git remote service. To me that's the best writing setup and it's innately offline.

Hey Annie, are you still here? Loved your "yes man" post, thanks.

I want to have a go and disagree.

We associate wisdom with the

and also

These are some of the most commonly shared properties of wisdom.

If so, then a wise man/woman can separate the challenges worth attending to and the ones that are not. This is not necessairly associated with "knowledge" in a strict sense.

But a knowledgeable person can have a lot of stuff in his/her brain and not being able to use that knowledge to live properly. If not able to do so, then grief and sorrow can be real and happening.

From literature, you have the example of Ivan Karamazov in the Karamazov Brothers. He is brilliant, knowledgeable, has his way with words. But he doesn't have wisdom, that's why he is bitter and sad. Father Kolima, in the other hand, is wise and knowledgeable. But his clarity comes fron the fact that he put into practice the good stuff he learned. And that's the beginning of wisdom.

So yeah, Knowledge that is not put at work can generate sorrow and bitterness and sadness. But if you put that into work, I believe that it can turn into wisdom. And with wisdom rarely sorrow and bitterness arise.

I'm genuinely happy to read this, thanks. You've understood how to not be a "tyran with yourself as a slave". Good luck with the parenting adventure!

Wow

Is it a real place?

In my experience, it's just that generally company thinks that "it's good enough" and employees think that too. Nowadays companies spend more on bullshit pseudo motivational HR stuff rather than actual wellness.

Your art is magnificent. Thanks

As a "young person" I do think that my generation simply switched to a different set of addictions.

Let me explain.

If you are a smoker, a drinker, a gambler, you have to DO something. Actively seek the casino, the pack of sigarettes, a pub to drink. You have to go out there to get the excitement.

With the new addictions, excitement is in you pocket. The cost to access it is zero, the marginal cost of consuming an additional unit of it is zero. Addiction is limitless.

So yeah, as an insider I would say that his will be the sickest generation, ever.

YES!

As the saying goes:

Bitcoin is useful in a lot of ways, but the more catchy thing is the easiness of use of wallets. Well done

Jitsi meet

You can use the free instance or self host it. It lets you generate invitation links and lets you discriminate between admin partecipants and simple partecipants.

Have a go, you might like it

DCAing is a really good idea. I used to wish I did buy more and whatever, but at the end of the day you cannot change the past. You took the best decision with the information at dispose.

With regards to buying KYC-free sats, I don't have specific suggestions rather than avoiding KYC services. In Europe we have some providers like Pocket that let you buy sats with your bank account but without KYC. Otherwise, just go for Robosats. If you're DCAing, Robosats is the best choice.

I would also suggest to buy sats with cash if possible, but p2p trades in cash are almost disappeared and are also very dangerous. Nonetheless, ff you have a net of peers and trusted bitcoiners, you can start from that. There's always someone in need for some fiat shitcoins because of emergencies etc.

Have a nice one

Thanks for this Cryotosensei, I always appreciate your insights. Yep, gift cards make up almost 95% of my net spendings in sats too, so I can understand. Have you ever considered doing collateralization stuff in p2p landing? As for the Nostr matter, I've been there a lot and I could say that it's a very nice place to be. Stacker News earnings largely exceed the amount of sats you can be zapped in Nostr, that's very clear.