Oddbean new post about login | logout What is the earliest mention of Nostr in a printed book? Broken Money mentioned Nostr and was published in August 2023. I assume some other printed books must have at least mentioned it within the year prior to that? nostr:note1u7hfudn3j0rft2uv2ae7a9dlw33pcrjtu7cp7g7u9edpcp87e3jsy5z4uk
Lyn check your NOSTR DMs when you get a chance - would love to help you with making your book into an animation 👍
I don't believe I've heard of Nostr being mentioned yet. @SK Freedom is writing a book and hoped to be the first to mention Nostr, but I guess you beat her on the first mention. Congratulations.
How do we leverage highlighter.com to pull out excerpts from books that would then help drive sales of that book? Is there potential to have e-book versions associated with every hard copy of text that are gated but have the ability to be highlighted and shared with Nostr. Just some thoughts this morning @pablof7z
why do "printed books" matter ? i thought we were past physical medium of exchange of value and information.
Old school stuff for in case electricity fails. We are still waiting for another carrington event, it is inevitable that sooner or later the sun will burp out a burst that wipes out half the planet's grids, and fries all the circuits permanently. Otherwise it could end up being a long road back to where we are.
unless that burp also kills every engineer on the planet it would only take them about a month to write down 90% of all the relevant knowledge from memory
I'm sure that this kind of confidence existed in the general population several times before. I bet the people of Pompeii never thought they'd be in the path of the lava too. Sure, I could probably work backwards from what I can remember to recover a lot of technologies but I'd rather not leave it to chance. Nostalgia is another benefit of keeping old tech around, especially when the old tech carries the information about how to build the new tech. I mean, transistors... I could probably figure out how to make them out of valves, given a few years and endless resources but a manual on how to print at least 1980s era ICs would be a hell of a lot more useful.
dig a hole a mile deep in the ground and put some nuclear powered backup system in there. library of congress is 15 TB. this is ONE hard drive. i haven't ordered anything in physical paper since the Kindle came out 15 years ago.
Is the book for the nerds or the plebs? Making sure that this book is one a Marine can understand without hurting the brain. lol, but seriously though...
I wrote it for nerds and plebs and nerdy plebs. Looking through the reviews, a number of people have commented that it is accessible and plainly written, which was my goal.
I am about 1/4 the way through “Broken Money” and I agree, Lyn. You made it accessible and yet comprehensive. Very well done. It will some day be required reading…heard it here first.
Very accessible. You’ll enjoy it.
