Preamble

It has been one month now since I first started thinking about creating this newsletter and I've only come as far as scratching 'TWMCN' on a yellow notepad. It is a little bit pathetic, I know. There were at least a few couch-naps where I could have fed some thoughts to the idea, but I didn't. I just napped. So instead of a grandiose something-or-something, here are some updates on your editor:

My fiat job comes with a variable earning structure which took a slight downturn these past few months. The upside is I got to enjoy more family with family on a tranquil lake in the Appalachians, and that bitcoin's price appreciation has made this possible without sacrificing my standard of living. My non-custodial lightning rig did what it said on the tin (with some hiccups) ¹, and worked like cash savings (or, rather, I traded some for cash with little friction). The downside: little stacking was done. C'est la vie!
On the personal side of things, I had an unexpected vet bill, cleansed my liver and celebrated Canadian Thanksgiving. And, yes, as always, I prioritized couch (and hammock!)-naps when needed, much in the style of Rip-Van-Winkle (but without the revolution).
Writing projects. The Sagas are still in the works and I've had a short-story on my mind. Nothing to show you, as of yet.

If you haven't figured it out yet, this is not the Gucci handbag of newsletters, nor is it the super-yacht, Rolls-Royce, or Luis-Vuitton. It is hardly a even a One-Michelin star newsletter. One might like to think that it is the Rolex of newsletters, but it certainly isn't. It is the world's most costly, not expensive, newsletter. In fact, what all of these expensive things have in common is exactly where they differ from this newsletter, namely in that it is not a Veblin good. It might not even be a good-good, but that is besides the point because whether it is or it is isn't, at the very least it aspires to a testament to good proof-of-work.

On the Territory Front: Updates

Our resident teacher, @cryotosensei, is tirelessly at work improving the minds and writing of his pupils. The result is a blog-series that reads like a masterclass on writing (check out this highlight and this one. Here's hoping it continues.

Spirituality, commerce, creativity and humour are themes in @Jimmyhoneyalchemist's updates--check out some of his stand-up!

And then, interspersed among these, I tried to keep the beach-ball in the air by posting the odd poem and some writing about writing.

Apologies in advance, but I have not figured out a good, non-tedious way to see if we are in profit. I have made an effort to zap all of the featured posts below, but it is not an even-split, as I said it would be.

Does any territory owner have no-frills method for tracking territory revenue/profitability month-to-month?

Poetry

In #1249187, @dagny761 connected with their inner child/poet in a Haiku.

In #1230300, @SatAttack shared a beautiful (dare I say it, mystcal) meditation on giving.

Non-Fiction

@softglitter2d shared their keynote talk on the Value-4-Value economies that p2p bitcoin micropayments enable in #1225639

@plebpoet meditates on the loss of a loved one #1251969

@Jimmyhoneyalchemist is feeling optimistic about a recent business venture/creative pursuits and writes about it in #1254803

@siggy47 hints at the potential for history to repeat itself in his reflection on Life on the Mississippi, by Mark Twain in #1246044

Fiction

Also in the spirit of Twain, @jbschirtzinger's study on dialect, took me to a cool summer evening where I could almost smell the tobacco pipe and taste the barrel-aged whiskey.

"Snippets from the Back Porch" is worth the read.

Monthly Feature

And being rich is overrated anyway. Purpose is the game. --@optimism

I really enjoyed this black-tea-fueled counter-cultural invective on the current state of things in AI/building. As busy as their life probably already is, @optimism should write more frequently.

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~the_stacker_muse

That's all for now,

billy

For the curious, it was a bad RAM card -- which I figured out too late. Nuked the db while troubleshooting and had to do a full resync. I think it took about a week. ↩

110 sats \ 0 replies \ @cryotosensei 10h

I get what you mean. Sometimes I think about agonising over a problem before I sleep since sleep is supposed to help my subconscious come alive and conjure an answer that connects the dots. Then I think to myself, just sleep! No need to be productive all the time!

This newsletter is good enough. Never let perfection be the enemy of the good

110 sats \ 0 replies \ @Jimmyhoneyalchemist 14h

Thank-you so much for the shout outs! Here is my most recent post as well. #1255551

110 sats \ 0 replies \ @SatAttack 21h

Woah thank you for the mention and wonderful news letter you have here

212 sats \ 0 replies \ @optimism 23h

<3 thank you for writing a newsletter. It's awesome.

@optimism should write more frequently.

Good idea. Opti has been lazy at "work" in favor of being a pensive do-nothing and now has a shitton of code to review. Will try to aim some of the much needed post-lazy momentum to writing too.