I have a friend in Ethiopia who’s in need of some financial help. Any recs on lightning wallets? He’s saying “none work here” and I don’t know if that’s normie speak or if that’s actually true.

“Fiat time keeps moving forward whether meaning is created or not.

It doesn’t care about energy, attention, or truth.

It only cares that the clock advances and output continues.”

-About Time

“Our conscious decisions, precede the block.” 🤯

I am HERE for this 👀

Will be reviewing the paper detail in length - crazy how much overlap here with my recent writings About Time.

Phenomenal work Jack & Nick @preston @Jeff Booth

“The quiet sense of being “behind” isn’t a personal failure.

It’s what happens when human life is forced to move inside an abstract timeline.

When time is imposed instead of lived, disorientation becomes the default state.”

- About Time

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“From the moment we wake up, time arrives as pressure.

Alarms, calendars, notifications, schedules.

Time isn’t something we experience anymore.

It’s something we manage, optimize, and try not to fall behind.”

- About Time

“We’re taught to measure life in days, years, deadlines, and paychecks.

Those measurements feel objective, almost sacred.

But they’re not neutral. They shape how we move, what we value, and what we ignore.

Most of us never chose this clock. We were simply born into it.”

- About Time

GM

Nester update 🌍🐾

Quick update on Nester: the project is currently on pause. I’d love to pick it back up once I find another passionate traveler + freedom-tech builder who wants to help push the product forward. If that’s you, or you know someone aligned, reach out.

In the meantime, we’ve been traveling the world using (yes… centralized 😩) platforms to take care of all kinds of animals. It’s been wild in the best way seeing new places, meeting people from every background, and realizing just how many people deeply crave freedom but don’t yet know how to access it. Most are still looking within the system for the solution… which only seems to reinforce the system itself.

This season has been a mix of gratitude and longing, grateful to love on people by caring for their homes and their animals, and longing for the decentralized future we know is possible. Saddened by how stuck so many feel, yet hopeful because the desire for freedom is everywhere. And once people see a real alternative, they won’t go back.

Nester will have its moment. Until then, we’re soaking in the culture, the relationships, and the reminder that the world is full of people waiting for something better.