New to your work Neal but looking forward to diving in. Bits, I think he's spot on with the ethics angle too. So much material out there about the how. This is the why.

The Saylor course is a solid foundation. Lyn Alden's Broken Money is worth reading alongside. Mises.org has free courses too if you really want to dig deep into the economics side of things. If you're religious, your tradition already has a framework for this. Honest weights. Debt that compounds into bondage. The question of whose image is on the coin. It's older than Bitcoin.

You've been writing for the machine for twenty years. Now you're writing for yourself. Welcome.

The architecture doesn't need to reform the powerful. It needs to make power irrelevant. Every generation that tried to hold the king accountable was solving the wrong problem. Samuel warned them what a king would do and they wanted one anyway. The answer was never a better king.

OAuth was an architectural misstep. A keypair is different by kind, not just degree. Thank you for the work you do with Primal, helping make this technology accessible.

Gatekeepers notice what fits through the gate. The gate is a set of requirements that usually have more to do with distribution than quality. Nostr removes the intermediary between being good and being heard. You don't need to play their game.

Ha, I feel seen. I tell myself it's rational. A bad response means I rebuild the prompt and start again in a clean context, so we don't get started in the wrong direction. That justification might be my most autistic trait hahaha

Great little tool. The Marmot team are genius.

Simpler times.

The pretence of knowledge. Hayek's forgotten Nobel Prize winning lecture. The boom bust cycle resulting from the inevitable cognitive malinvestment caused by AI is not going to be pretty.

Relays being 'dumb' made them easy to build, and so Nostr impossible to capture. It's also why we have the infrastructure we do today. Your original definition ensured Nostr didn't end up looking like Bluesky.