Great start for outlining the use case.
Not everyone in the world is as passionate about free speech as nostr early adopters. They are not as ideologically opposed to any limitations on visibility or access.
In fact, they see a lot of posts as noise that detracts from the JTBD that brought them here. In the case you outlined, that JTBD is following a creator and connecting with his community.
So you w laid out a very sensible onboarding flow for that customer segment.
Game designers have known this for decades. You don’t take a brand new player and drop them in the middle of the final boss battle with the full plethora of weapons and unlocks. It’s overwhelming and makes for a horrible UX.
Instead you take them through “basic training” and give them a sense of progress, accomplishment, and most importantly… fun!
Gradually unlock tools and features as you become more comfortable and engaged. You can even gamify the engagement to an extent, eg to unlock features you have to earn certain engagement badges, etc.
I honestly don’t know who’s pushing this or why. Fluoride is already in the water systems so I can only assume this product exists because there’s demand for fluoridated water. Presumably because some consumers have been convinced that it’s healthy or protective in some way. And capitalism (of which I am a huge fan btw) or free markets more accurately will find and address most any market demand if there’s profit in it.
You make fine points as well. Zero snark detected in your earlier comment. We are aligned on the post-industrial dynamics around “public health”
And that local municipal worker dialing back the fluoride… not all heroes wear capes.
I use Anki a LOT.
Great tool for custom flash cards and spaced repetition.
If you need to memorize information this is one of the best ways I’ve found to do so.
Read the flash cards while going on a walk for extra memory boost.
I honestly haven’t found a whole lot of value in the open source flash card decks. Many lack context or are poorly organized. But perhaps I just need to search more.
I just discovered that my wife’s understanding of spreadsheets is almost zero.
She has hardly any idea of what they’re capable, let alone how to use it.
I didn’t understand people could get this far in life and never really touch a spreadsheet.
Hand to God I will write a shanty for it if we can pull it off again. Event appropriate, laced with charm, and singable by all.
Let me know if I can help.
You guys have leveled up. So excited and proud. What a thing you’ve done. Can’t wait to swing by soon and hope I can actually find a space at the bar!!
Rewatching Black Sails and man it has the best opening credits of any show ever. Gets me simultaneously pumped and contemplative. Hits me fresh every time.
It’s stands the test of time. Writing is fantastic. Characters are all fully formed. Hopes and flaws. Wresting with big ideas. Sex and violence. It’s got it all.
Fantastic note. Your rhetorical gift is, well, enviable.
One of Naval’s better fortune cookies is this: self esteem is the reputation you have with yourself.
Can I sketch music with this? Seems a trivial feature given the videos I’ve seen. Just get the write document style with staff lines on it then use the pen. Yes? Just a drawing app, essentially.
I don't put much stock or interest in politics, but it's unavoidable and it DOES have a real impact on our lives.
As teams and policies accumulate on either side of the 2024 Presidential race, I've honestly never been more hopeful AND more terrified for an election outcome.
Man am I excited about nostr.
It's a desperately bulwark against censorship.
And the community is 🔥 🔥 🔥
But the level of nostr prognostication is starting to sound like the early days of bitcoin.
Many got rekt thinking it was inevitable and the dollar would die next Tuesday.
Even in our meme-ified times, change takes time.
We still have a few Thanksgiving dinners in our future where nostr is roundly derided.
Here's the thing about a store of value...
you eventually have to SELL at least some of it, otherwise you're not STORING it, you're DISPOSING of it. You're locking it up and then throwing away the key.
The question is
how much to sell,
when to sell, and
for what purpose.
And that's an individual value judgement.
People seem to be fighting a straw man with @Parker Lewis right now due to some simple phrasing.
Is he really saying "the protocol doesn't matter"?
Or is he saying that "there is more than one route to censorship (e.g. censoring apps that sit atop the protocol), and IN ADDITION TO THE PROTOCOL it would be great if there was a way for companies to resist those pressures as well."
What am I missing here?
The more of-the-moment the post = more engagement but less reusable.
The more eternal the post = less engagement but more reusable.
What's your experience?
The TLDR is it's conceptually like Spirit of Satoshi, but for philosophy more broadly rather than just bitcoin.
Instead of training it solely on the gruel of the modern web, let's train it on the ancient wisdom of the western canon.
And instead of optimizing it for utilitarian economic outcomes, let's optimize it for human flourishing... as defined by that previously mentioned ancient wisdom.
Not a bad idea. Treat nostr as the "members only" platform and offer similar benefits... advance access, members only content, live streaming or AMAs, etc.
Spot on. My should-I-orange-pill-them formula is…
Degree of Time needed
influence X to deprogram
on my life this person
———————————————
Opportunity cost
of that “time required”
How analogous is this to browsers and the http protocol?
No one is gonna shut down "the web"
But would there be no material impact on the flow of information over the web if the state were able to, let's say, shut down Chrome, Firefox, and Safari?
There would be tremendous pain in that situation. Consider the businesses, infrastructure, and livelihoods that are built atop email addresses.
So that would be a pretty effective lever with which to coerce people.
All I'm saying is it would be nice to have some leverage against that, to prevent that suffering, not simply a protocol that will weather the damage.
I don't disagree with Gmail being a major culprit.
Maybe I'm catastrophizing, but given the interconnected nature of the economy, infrastructure, and livelihoods, I would think such a move would be more than the mere inconvenience of having to switch to protonmail or something.
There would be big ripple effects that do real damage.
Maybe that level of pain is inescapable if we want to tear free of the surveillance state. But it makes for a pretty effective lever of influence in the meantime.
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