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 SURROUND YOURSELF WITH PEOPLE WHO LIVE LIFE WITH INTEGRITY.

FADE THOSE WHO DO NOT. 
 BIG TIME 
 🤙🤙 
 GM 🫡 integrity over 
 #YESTR 🫡🫂🍀 
 That's a good advice, and don't try to make bad actors comply, they won't  
 Most the ideal people are dead or in jail. Oh well, who wants to live forever anyways?; 
 Check myself first 
 WE MUST HOLD OURSELVES TO THE HIGHEST STANDARD. 
 I started doing this in 2021, mercilessly.

No exceptions.

Life changer.
 
 Preach em! 
 David Bailey down bad. 🤣 
 integrity is what bitcoin gives back ✌️ 
 Ok 👌 
 natural law 
 🤙🏽💜 
 GM 🫡 
 🫡🫡🫡 
 GREAT ADVICE. 🫡 
 😂I like the use of fade here. I think it means “dim them” right? I’m used to fade meaning kill. 
 You’re an average of the 5 closest people to you 
 Ser, I have family and friends. No one is perfect. 😘 
 Important advice.

Take it a step further and think about the people you surround yourself with on social media, podcasts, music, etc.

It influences you more than you think. 
 Again, tho… 
Controlling for “integrity” is not something that’s possible on nostr quite yet. 

Can’t count on “follows” to get you there… cause you gonna follow “other” people also… (tap a wide range of “inputs”, maybe some of them will “pan out”)

Nostr lists … maybe. But how to “share” your list of “my peeps” with others … and stuff. 

Nostr has no means for us to indicate “trusted”, in  hopes of “surrounding” ourselves with their content.  
 Not yet. 

Nostr needs more people laser-focused on this problem, at many levels. 

How can we make this happen? 
 Let’s do another panel discussion … with different ideas. See what happens?
nostr:note1kvhalss235an9zp44edkkns5tghnelahwcs9tu0fupr9f6lsljfqfxm273 
 I’d be down with that 👍🏻 
 Since last time:

@hodlbod has upgraded Corqcle considerably, including using WoT to sort Community Groups related content. That would be a cool topic to discuss, perhaps hear his thoughts on that? It’s only been out a few days, don’t know what feedback he’s gotten yet. I’d be curious to know if he has next steps planned for more WoT features yet or not. 

Also @Lez submitted the NIP-77 PR and he and I have each put in some work implementing it. I’ve released a wiki explorer which uses the WoT score to stratify content almost identically to the way Pablo does it on Wikifreedia. And my next step will be to experiment with a different method to calculate the score. Perhaps Lez could tell us about his project, get some feedback from us, tell us what it’s like at SEC? 
 DUDE, I’VE BEEN TELLING MYSELF THIS FOR YEARS. i’M FINALLY TAKING ACTION ON IT. BETTER LATE THAN NEVER. LITERALLY MOVING MY LOCATION TO ACHIEVE THIS 100%. FADING WEAK BITCHES IN PROCESS. 
 You don't always have to move, you just have to learn how to find the first seed and grow the network.... There are amazing people passing you by unnoticed each day... 
 Very true. I appreciate the input and also moving for other reasons as well. The fiat mines pay more for my trade where I’m going. More fiat to exchange for Bitcoin🤙🏼 
 This is the way 🫡 
 Thanks for the reminder. Just unfollowed as I can see why you didn't discuss this in recent podcast with NVK: https://x.com/CashuBTC/status/1791001643019809146 
 ouch 
 ??? 
 1) DISCUSSED THIS ON MY PODCAST.

2) NOT SURE HOW CALLE’S DECISION ON OPEN SOURCE PROTOCOL DEV HAS ANYTHING TO DO WITH ME. 
 IN PROGRESS🫡 
 Don’t just fade, cancel them! 
 don't focus on the negative verb, pick the positive one and do that instead!

"Surround yourself..." 
 No wonder I count my friends (mostly family) on both hands. 
 family are a bit different as you didn't choose them.

But there are ways of surrounding yourself with integrity. The genesis block aka "first good friends" are the hardest to find but once you find them you can use the network effect to grow your network of integrity quickly.

"Good people know good people" basically.

So the next time you have a party and you invite those genesis friends: tell each one to bring along their top 1 or 2 friends... and see what happens... ;) 
 fuck. of ALL the things you have said - and there are many - never has one resonated so much with the way I choose my friends and live my life as this one Nostr note!!

Love it! 
 the answer to evil is time and silence. That's what my betrayers and let-downs win from me.  
 It's never too late to get busy livin' (humbly). 
 Been a crazy 4 years here in the US. I’ve several “friends” that I will never speak to again after how they acted during the tyranny. Thankful many of them stood strong.
And  thanks to BTC I’ve many new friends much more freedom oriented around the world.
I can’t thank all of u techie bitcoiners enough for all you have done. For myself, my family, my friends I thank you so very much. 
 amen! 
GM 🙃  
 Amen. 
 🫡 
 dude I'd love to surround myself but under those criteria, I can get about 90 degree coverage!  
 Getting more and more difficult as the number of such people approaches single figures!😂 
 Do right and fail: you still did right. 
Do wrong and fail: you’re an idiot. 

Not acting with integrity is ultimately super irrational. Just a matter of time horizon. 
 Yes. ...But, WHY ARE YOU YELLING???  
 Influencers are fake and gay.

I’ve met Odell and Marty and they seem like a real ones though. Cheers to you for bucking the trend.  
 are you a racist? 
 curate your friends? 
 That's right !! 
 ooooh. I often say exactly that!!

Integrity - rarer than Bitcoin. 
 can't choose family, just work around them - but you DO have a say in who you call "friend"