Started in 2020, grinding goldbug videos by Mike Maloney and others to round out the history of money sections. Then in 2021 began going hard on the Bitcoin podcasts, articles, books, etc.
Wrapped up the current version around May '23, but have been sprinkling in new content every once in a while as I find certain awesome pieces I feel are deserving!
And Spirit of Satoshi is super interesting. Really looking forward to seeing how that tool continues to develop; the team behind it is fantastic so I have high hopes.
Podcasts were my primary focus for the majority of every day from 2020-2023. I got quite good at doing just enough (and I mean JUST enough) to not get fired at my 3 jobs I had over the course of the last 4 years.
...Until I did finally get fired lol. Then I had even MORE time to grind while unemployed 🤣 and just ate the credit card debt knowing that the Bitcoin educational contribution was worth the sacrifice.
Still digging out of debt as we speak, but stoked to have a final product I'm proud of.
Cleared out my phone storage so I had 100% of space free for content downloads.
Downloaded entire library of every high-signal Bitcoin podcast I could find (did my best to really find good small ones too, outside of the main ones everyone already knows)
Bug @MerryOscar to implement 3x speed (great success!) 👇
LOTS of 3-4 hour night walks, plugging away at those download lists, in whatever city I was living at the time. I'm a bit of a nomad so I moved several times over the course of the 4-year building period (I can now navigate Petone New Zealand, Corte Madera CA, Austin TX, and Cancun Mexico with my eyes closed lol. Literally walked every single inch of street space in those cities while grinding pods at 3x speed)
For the actual tracking of the content, I kept an ongoing notepad on my phone of every finalist I felt would be a good addition to the collection, and a few notes about where I thought it would best fit in the ordering. (I really put effort into each section beginning with the most beginner-friendly content, and ending with the more advanced stuff. I kept track of all of that.)
Most important rule of all...FOLLOW EVERY THREAD. Sometimes I'd be super close to finishing all the videos of a specific YouTube channel for example, and I'd see a new one pop up in the "Recommended" that looked good. I would ALWAYS allow myself to open up that tangent, to begin on immediately after the current one I was working on.
This is a big reason why it took so many years, and became so large. I refused to keep a single stone unturned while curating it.
Holy crap. This is super comprehensive. Well done! I noticed that the anchor links to Parts 4, 5, and 7 from the table of contents are not working on my browser. The other links are.
Given the reliance on the links to third party sites, would you potentially also include a link to a web archive version of them or even a PDF version in case the source material ever is removed?
Link rot is a big problem, i have a list of bitcoin resources and in a year or two many links die. Pdf/web archive should probably be the default links for sites like this
How would you go about doing this? I've never made a fully backed up archive like you're alluding to, I assumed it'd be extremely storage-intensive to have an offline version made of every single content piece.
Some of it might be as easy as linking to archive.org, though not all of the sites might be on there. There has got to be an program you could run that would create your own archive of the websites. I'll look into it and see if I find anything.
Interesting. If you could I'd really appreciate it! Will be quite busy with family obligations in coming weeks so can't dive into much myself, but definitely all ears to anything you learn!
wayback machine has "save now" function where it will take a snapshot of the website if the website is not forbidding crawlers - that would be the easiest solution but i'm sure some websites will have crawlers disabled in robots.txt
Does it have a bulk capability where I could tell it to save every link on the page (in the 4-digits I believe 😅) or would I need to click through every single one manually?
to archive you website like that , you can download program script "wabarc/wayback" in github
to use that in android and install that in termux (minimum the phone ram rom 4gb/64gb),
Appreciate you, Joss! Hope it's helpful for not just finding new corners of the rabbit hole to explore yourself, but aiding in your orange-pilling efforts in the future 🤝
Fascinating! Any lessons you picked up along the way in regard to organising and categorising information? I’m a teacher n am keen to know any insights you have gained to help me beef up my students’ working memory n metacognitive skills better.
One message I would absolutely pass along, as I explained here, is the importance of pursuing projects you're passionate about without reservation, and being as absorbent as possible to learning how your mind works in the process.
Example:
For me, I've always had a bad memory for specific details, and sometimes this really bugged me. But as I did this project, I learned I have a GREAT "skimming stamina" if you will. IE I literally never get tired of churning through podcasts, articles, books, etc., and while I don't remember every single detail, I'm quite good at getting the jist and seeing where it fits into the puzzle of discovering Bitcoin.
Basically, finding what you're good at vs. not so good at, and finding ways to maximize the way you're wired! Might be a bit of a deep skill depending on the age of students you're teaching, but I'm sure there's plenty of opportunity to plant some seeds there 🌱😊
Thanks for the great message about leveraging your strengths. I think there’s a lot of emphasis in education in regard to beefing up one’s weaknesses in order to meet the next academic grade - but if we don’t spend time honing our strengths, we will never become extraordinary
Yes!! Sharing your woes and struggles of creating this site would be quite interesting :) I imagine you've learned quite a lot about how to find quality information. I had a very similar idea to this back in 2020 as well but never followed through, and would've never like this if i did!!
One of the things I've learned about myself in recent years is that I have a practically infinitely high ceiling for content consumption. I literally never get tired of learning, and filtering things down into a collection of categories I believe will be the most helpful to the most people.
The trade-off of this is, my memory for specific details sucks. I'm awful at remembering specific dates, number figures, statistics, etc. IE I'm custom-built for extreme skimming, and understanding content just well enough to know where it fits into the bigger library of the Bitcoin learning journey, and understanding PEOPLE just well enough to identify who the biggest brains in each area are, and let them do the detail-oriented work (I just route people toward them 🤙)
I understand perfectly, I also love to read, although I cannot say that everything I read remains in my memory and
I'm also bad at remembering small things. Sometimes I go to the kitchen to get water and halfway there I don't remember what I was going for 😂
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