GM #nostr Feeling pretty sore after having a lump removed from my back yesterday. Nothing malignant thankfully but was causing some discomfort sat at a desk all day. Now to not pop my stitches for 2 weeks

Thinking about #nostr and growth and how we can fall into the pitfalls of old school social media. The likes of Facebook, Twitter, etc got to the size they did through unethical, addictive algorithms and backroom deals. Nostr is not that. It’s organic and organic growth does not follow the trajectories of traditional social media. We should be onboarding as many as we can but if they don’t hang around that’s fine. Nostr shouldn’t need people chronically online to survive. It’s okay if people came back sporadically. Value4value lies at the heart of this new age of social interaction online. When you’ve filled your cup, come and share it, let yourself be filled. When you need to take a step away, do it and come back when ready.

GM #nostr, thinking through how our existence could probably be defined by the word “overextension”. By overextension I mean we stretch things past their natural capacity. We’ve overextend: Money Government Food Environment Schools Communities Purpose Humanity Fitness Entertainment Family Business Am I advocating for degrowth? I guess I kind of am, centralisation is the scourge of humanity. It’s ironic that my favourite show, Star Trek: TNG, shows a future of almost perfect bureaucratic bliss. If such a thing was possible it would be great. "I feel I need a holiday, a very long holiday, as I have told you before…Why, I feel all thin, sort of stretched, if you know what I mean: Like butter that has been scraped over too much bread. That can’t be right. I need a change, or something.” - Fellowship of the Ring

It’s a double whammy today for #proofofharvest 1. Some of my nicest looking courgettes yet 2. Beef dinner featuring “roast” potatoes from the garden. Beef was silverside from a local farmer, slow cooked for 7 hours with some vegetables and stock. Used the liquid and veg to make a gravy. Potatoes were done in beef dripping from same farmer. Didn’t have enough time to get them properly roasted though. Also didn’t peel them 😂

GM #nostr Had a really valuable call with a brother in the US yesterday. He reminded me that we need that challenge he called “the rock in the stream”. Something that’s hard but if we stick at it shapes us. Sometimes we feel like we aren’t moving forward like that rock, but we’re still being shaped by the stream. Keep the faith, don’t let the system define what you should be. Realise your God given image 🫡