manny_goldstein / is on Nostr

Interested in self-sovereignty, martials arts, music and tech.

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2024-09-10 13:10:14

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Congrats! Nice work

2024-09-05 12:22:05

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I am much more relaxed here too. I feel much more like I am selecting things to think about rather than having them pushed into my head.

2024-09-04 13:04:23

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100%. I switched to a flip/dumb phone for a few months at the beginning of this year and I felt like a completely different person. I would actually daydream and come up with ideas again. It ended up being too obstructive and I unfortunatey switched back.
Since then though, I've tried a couple easy habits that have really helped.
1. Keep it put away (out of sight and out of touch). I'll zip it into a pocket of my backpack when I'm working and close it into the nightstand when I'm in bed. Just not seeing in your peripheral vision or feeling it in your pocket really cut down on a MASSIVE percentage of that passive, compulsive feeling to "check" something. Even just 1 second of extra friction is enough to make a huge difference.
2. Set the phone UI to greyscale (black and white). It is amazing how much less interesting / engaging this makes your phone even though it is still usable/functional its just not very enjoyable (which is what I want).
Anyone else got any simple habits for reducing phone usage?

2024-08-30 16:48:30

Back on Nostr after I first checked it out about a year ago. It seems like there is a lot more traction and super exciting things happening!

2024-08-04 15:06:16

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Lol. I did this when I was recording the proposal to my wife. Turned the video on, leaned it up against the wall and pressed record. Have a really romantic audio recording of my proposal and really solid footage of the wall

2023-12-13 01:35:53

I am able to post on #nostr on one computer but when I try from a different device I am stuck in "read only" mode. I have the private key stored in the getalby extension on both devices and I am using the Iris.to web client. Any idea what could cause this? Is there some documentation somewhere? @npub1sg6…f63m

2023-12-12 23:02:15

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2023-12-12 22:57:45

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Even though I love self-custody, it really is a huge sense of responsibility. You have to desire self-sovereignty for it to be worth the perceived extra stress. I think that what Obi is doing with Fedimints (where someone personally connected to you is self custodying the bitcoin for a group of people but not every single person needs to learn it in depth) is going to be more scalable.
I hear people say that self-custody is going to get "so simple" but the more I hear that the more trust is involved. If the people taking self-custody don't understand the basics for how to vet whether a self-custody solution is actually secure, eventually you are going to have a herd of people fall victim to marketing campaigns about self custody that aren't actually self custody. Imagine for example how many people who own ledger hardware wallets are 1) not aware of the private key backup recovery they use on some devices and 2) wouldn't know why that was an issue even if they did know.
The simpler you get with self-custody the easier it will be to push people into unsafe products in my opinion.

2023-12-12 22:50:33

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I think the number of people who own bitcoin that self custody would be maybe in the 20-30% range. I think it really depends on how unstable and confiscatory governments get and how obvious it is to the general public. If the average person doesn't think their government is going to steal their bitcoin then they will probably hold it in a bank for peace of mind.

2023-04-21 18:22:14

Any other chess players on Nostr? #grownostr

2023-04-20 09:59:12

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I need to check these out I have the Bose Quiet Comfort but they are starting to crap out after quite a few years

2023-04-17 11:03:26

If you had a small set of raised garden planters (think a 15 X 20 foot area) what would you grow in it? I'm new to gardening and have limited space but would like to dip my toes in. #grownostr

2023-04-16 10:42:29

A huge proportion of the people I talk to who are interested in self-sovereignty/freedom are into training with firearms...how many people are also interested in training combat sports? If you are interested....what do you/have you trained in? #grownostr #bjj #mma

2023-04-16 10:00:19

TESTING.....Hello Nostr World