Damus
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I wrote a short rant called "fuck easy" a couple of days ago. I've been listening to podcasts and after the 5th person complaining that nostr is too hard (is it, really?) I was fed up and typed this out on my phone. I hope that we can return to a point, culturally, where "hard" is okay, just like the first level of the original Super Mario was hard.

Coddling everyone's mind has led us to the upside-down clown world we're currently living in, and coddling everyone's body has led to less-than-optimal health, to put it mildly. In the Bitcoin world, coddling users and making things "easy" has led to Coinbase-by-default and other stupid bullshit, and I truly am fed up with all of that.

There is a better way, but the "better" isn't necessarily "easy."
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Toshi · 142w
I don’t think Nostr on Primal is hard. It’s super easy actually. Wallet setup smooth af too. Slick interface. Great UX. don’t know how should be hard
Rich Nost · 142w
Nintendo actually guages general player skill for their new Mario games by making focus group respondents play level 1-1 of the original SMB. You would be surprised how many respondents fail to beat the level before running out of Mario lives. This is why all the new 2D Mario games hand out extra li...
Tha Brainer · 142w
same here, so, I think we ultimately are GMI!!!
Clarkian · 142w
I feel like multiple years of Dark Souls games and "git gud" mentality helped prepare me to Bitcoin adoption. To all the whiners: git gud
Nostralian · 142w
Nostr takes some effort initially, as an almost 50 year old, non-techie who first owned a pc in my twenties I managed fine. As I tell young people every day; life is hard, don't let anyone tell you otherwise. You must always be improving, physically and mentally, and pushing forward, because life ...
cozie · 142w
Spot on as always Sir. Light/idle hands make devils work. Find the struggle and get stuck in. Run, lift, fight the fight, swim butterfly, swing kettlebells, study, cold showers, hot saunas, fast, stretch, tell the truth, call out bullshitters, don’t conform….just seek out what is hard and embrac...
MAHDOOD · 142w
I dropped processed foods over a year ago and, even though I got a lot healthier, I noticed I still had some problems with energy and stubborn fat I couldn’t lose. I did more lab work and found that my gut was severely damaged. Years of fiat food and fiat medicine take time to fix. As I started to...
Garth · 142w
It’s good to “take it easy” after working hard for a period of time, I personally have gone through this cycle over the past 6 months. Aspiring to perpetually take it easy is in my opinion weak minded. It’s why I hate the concept of “retirement”.
spoonman · 142w
Counter-argument: embracing things getting harder is indistinguishable from embracing “degrowth”. Innovation is about making previously impossible things possible and previously hard things easy… so that we can do more things.
awayslice · 142w
u read “the comfort crisis” yet? if not - it’s all about this.
balas · 142w
<3
bitjoon · 142w
Do things that are hard and your life will be easy. Do what is easy and your life will be hard. -Unknown
cuban · 142w
we can do hard things
cwilbzz · 142w
I ranted about this months back as well Embrace the struggle 🫡 https://yakihonne.com/article/naddr1qqxnzd3cxy6rxvf5x5en2d3jqgsxsuwcmux5yk3tqlkdcv9rk5ll4mc5mxkj2uluz4pxjnt9f2fedsgrqsqqqa28v990c3
Erik The Decentralist · 142w
https://image.nostr.build/694b52113461a5f33566b859b050076ac37df394822d543a9559c93a800357e6.gif
mattaroo · 142w
Where do you think the term helicopter parents came from. Coddling is rampant. Being taught to kids from parents and school teachers. It can easily be fixed with endurance, discipline and training. Low time preference values.
goodcharity · 142w
This game was really hard too https://m.primal.net/HTSV.jpg
atyh · 142w
take the padding off of the corners of the world. you comfort addicted bitches.
Josua Schmid · 142w
A world of consumers where making and investing has no place.
47 · 142w
🫳🎤
nout · 142w
Nostr being hard serves as a filter of people that can't handle hard things.
Joe Martin · 142w
Nothing worth having is easy to get
suidoc · 142w
Legendary game 🔥
caleb · 142w
I like it. Reminds me of the concept of Hormesis and “salvation through suffering”
SwissNode · 142w
It IS a little tricky to remember the little details of how to start in Nostr. I don't find that a bad thing, just means there is an incentive to write a simple guide to make the tricky untricky... I think Alby do a great job in making the hard simple...
dreamXStreme · 142w
Well, I'm just after setting up my account, so I am by no means a power user 😅 The opposite of ''hard'' doesn't have to necessarily be ''easy''. It can also be soft as in child's play, the soft focus of being curious, having an open mind, the joy metric of wonder, discovering something exciting,...
Deleted Account · 131w
I’m consider it Done if
Sean Murray · 49w
what’s hard about nostr
DasFrettchen · 49w
I started stacking not long ago, and it is extremely easy. Saylor, Saif and Jeff Booth just explained the basic in 3 hours. Taking self custody is super easy with the coldcard + sparrow and buying BTC is easier than banking with strike. IMO builders and the minds on the BTC space hava already pav...
Gary Green · 49w
I think the upcoming Satellite drop is going to impress most. The newly retooled back end protocol makes it super fast and the front end UX has new features most people have been waiting for. Your bud @Stuart is about to impress us all. I've been following his progress IRL and got sneak previews of ...