Myself.

I have for years now not been good to myself, or my relationships. Neglect of work, neglect of what I love to do, neglect of everything - due to my mental health. I have multiple times failed to combat this. I will not fail this time, because this is the last time if I don't want to lose the life I have now.

I have set up a basic plan I want to follow, to fix my sleep, my work ethics, my phone addiction, my overall lack of action. And I will do my best. If not for me, so for the future of my now hopefully expanding family.

Fuck this will be tough.

Bringing the first non-custodial Lightning implementation to a hardware wallet companion app, the BitBoxApp.

Quite some things, but the short answer would be: better understanding my current situation and plan for the next moves in life ;)

More specifically:

Incremental privacy improvement for SN withdrawal invoices

I started my new job this week and I'm working hard to get up to speed and make a strong initial impression. Along with this, I'm cleaning up my sleeping/exercise habits and making more of an effort to take small breaks throughout the day and go outside + enjoy nature.

From a hobby/passion project perspective, I'm working with a friend on launching financial education courses that teach core financial concepts using first principles. Not financial advice, but rather detailed guides on key ideas & questions that we feel are especially relevant in 2023. We've noticed that formal education prioritizes information recall rather than comprehensive understanding, which does no one any favors when the topics can be as complex as those from the financial world.

One thing that always bothered me about public education was the implied but required acceptance of the lesson's conclusions and the minimal space and time to actively question them. A simplified example would be the following statement, "the Fed targets a 2% inflation rate because mild inflation is good for the economy."

Right from the get-go, students need to accept that the Fed knows what it's doing, the 2% inflation rate is rooted in some evidence or science, and inflation is good (which implies deflation is bad). When the most basic tenants of economic theory are assumed rather than justified, it's hard to reconcile what we experience on a daily basis with the material that we're told is effectively gospel.

So, my friend and I are looking to create content that teaches things differently and makes no bones about what should be passively assumed vs. what should be actively justified.

We're excited to get started and are taking the next few months to write the content and gameplan a launch.

Experimenting with ClickHouse, the column-oriented DBMS.

I continue to do the five movements mentioned in Peter Kelder's famous book, 21 times a day. I finished the 2nd month. The book says that results will be obtained in 5-6 months. As stated in the book, bad odors come from the body for the first 1-2 months. It has been stated that this is due to the toxins excreted. These smells came true. I showered frequently. Let's see if I can get positive results in 5-6 months. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Tibetan_Rites

Moving assets from a sunsetting wallet to another

working on getting api key access working on my app.

Selling Lamongan rice

Making POIs and get paid eQuad then swap into sats.🤭

I just forked https://hamstr.to/, a Nostr client which looks unmaintained. Fixed the relay settings, it's fetching data again. Yay! Now it's my goal to use a self-hosted Nostr client where I can scratch my own itches on Nostr...

Looking for podcasts to keep growing my list of Bitcoin related podcasts. Currently I have a little over 60.

Here is my current list of new and old ones:

Working on Stacker News Territories.

I write an article for a Japanese culture site called Tsunagu Japan. So, this week, I am hustling to finish writing top 10 onsen spots in Hokkaido. Wish me luck!

Reading Lyn Alden’s Broken Money.

Like a lot of you, I’m a programmer. I will be the first one to admit I had no idea how money worked before finding Bitcoin, and my knowledge of the current system was still very limited despite getting very into hard money and Austrian theory. I’m halfway through this book and it has tied off so many loose ends in my understanding and be a great refresher of why I care about building on Bitcoin. Highly recommend.

Getting my AWS Cloud associate certification! By doing a few udemy courses.

After being tasked with improving the decentralized computing (ethereum based) platform and hopeful-AWS future competitor https://aleph.im, I realized that I'm not a senior developer. I'm a complete noob. I know docker, but almost nothing of orchestration, auto-configuration, and most importantly network and cloud security. I'm going back to square 0, and i love it!

Also having a lot of interviews with recruiters, since I'm looking for a job. Quite productive week!