“The human spirit should remain in charge.”
Pablo & Gigi talk about the wind.
In this dialogue:

Wind
More Wind
Information Calories, and how to measure them
Digital Wellbeing
Rescue Time
Teleology of Technology
Platforms get users Hooked (book)
Feeds are slot machines
Movie Walls
Tweetdeck and Notedeck
IRC vs the modern feed
37Signals: “Hey , let’s just charge users!”
“You wouldn’t zap a car crash”
Catering to our highest self VS catering to our lowest self
Devolution of YouTube 5-star ratings to thumb up/down to views
Long videos vs shorts
The internet had to monetize itself somehow (with attention )
“Don’t be evil” and why Google had to remove it
Questr : 2D exploration of nostr
ONOSENDAI by Arkinox
Freedom tech & Freedom from Tech
DAUs of jumper cables
Gossip and it’s choices
“The secret to life is to send it”
Flying water & flying bus stops
RSS readers , Mailbrew , and daily digests
Nostr is high signal and less addictive
Calling nostr posts “ tweets ” and recordings being “on tape”
Pivoting from nostr dialogues to a podcast about wind
The unnecessary complexity of NIP-96
Blossom (and wind)
Undoing URLs, APIs, and REST
ISBNs and cryptographic identifiers
SaaS and the DAU metric
Highlighter
Not caring where stuff is hosted
When is an edited thing a new thing?
Edits, the edit wars, and the case against edits
NIP-60 and inconsistent balances
Scroll to text fragment and best effort matching
Proximity hashes & locality-sensitive hashing
Helping your Uncle Jack of a horse
Helping your uncle jack of a horse
Can we fix it with WoT?
Vertex & vibe-coding a proper search for nostr
Linking to hashtags & search queries
Advanced search and why it’s great
Search scopes & web of trust
The UNIX tools of nostr
Pablo’s NDK snippets
Meredith on the privacy nightmare of Agentic AI
Blog-post-driven development ( Lightning Prisms , Highlighter )
Sandwich-style LLM prompting, Waterfall for LLMs ( HLDD / LLDD )
“Speed itself is a feature”
MCP & DVMCP
Monorepos and git submodules
Olas & NDK
Pablo’s RemindMe bot
“Breaking changes kinda suck”
Stories, shorts, TikTok, and OnlyFans
LLM-generated sticker styles
LLMs and creativity (and Gigi’s old email )
“AI-generated art has no soul”
Nostr, zaps, and realness
Does the source matter?
Poker client in bitcoin v0.0.1
Quotes from Hitler and how additional context changes meaning
Greek finance minister on crypto and bitcoin ( Technofeudalism , book)
Is more context always good?
Vervaeke’s AI argument
What is meaningful?
How do you extract meaning from information?
How do you extract meaning from experience?
“What the hell is water”
Creativity, imagination, hallucination, and losing touch with reality
“Bitcoin is singularity insurance”
Will vibe coding make developers obsolete?
Knowing what to build vs knowing how to build
10min block time & the physical limits of consensus
Satoshi’s reasons articulated in his announcement post
Why do anything? Why stack sats? Why have kids?
All you need now is motivation
Upcoming agents will actually do the thing
Proliferation of writers: quantity VS quality
Crisis of sameness & the problem of distribution
Patronage, belle epoche, and bitcoin art
Niches, and how the internet fractioned society
Joe’s songs
Hyper-personalized stories
Shared stories & myths (Jonathan Pageau)
Hyper-personalized apps VS shared apps
Agency, free expression, and free speech
Edgy content & twitch meta , aka skating the line of demonetization and deplatforming
Using attention as a proxy currency
Farming eyeballs and brain cycles
Engagement as a success metric & engagement bait
“You wouldn’t zap a car crash”
Attention economy is parasitic on humanity
The importance of speech & money
What should be done by a machine?
What should be done by a human?
“The human spirit should remain in charge”
Our relationship with fiat money
Active vs passive, agency vs serfdom

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