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Mutualism is often conflated with two other types of ecological phenomena: cooperation and symbiosis. [...] Symbiosis involves two species living in close physical contact over a long period of their existence and may be mutualistic, parasitic, or commensal, so symbiotic relationships are not always mutualistic, and mutualistic interactions are not always symbiotic. Despite a different definition between mutualistic interactions and symbiosis, mutualistic and symbiosis have been largely used interchangeably in the past, and confusion on their use has persisted.
— Wikipedia, Mutualism (biology)
Satistics
| Date | Spent | Stacked (Rewards) | Posts | Comments | Rewarded |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-12-28 | 13k | 8808 (n/a) | 2 | 35 | n/a |
| 2023-12-29 | 16.1k | 15.6k (5222) | 3 | 52 | ⚡ |
| 2023-12-30 | 10.8k | 9752 (7026) | 1 | 41 | ✍️ |
| 2023-12-31 | 20.5k | 17.9k (4379) | 5 | 61 | ⚡ |
| 2024-01-01 | 12.5k | 10.7k (7684) | 3 | 47 | ✍️ |
| 2024-01-02 | 16k | 19.5k (9353) | 6 | 36 | ✍️ |
| 2024-01-03 | 15.9k | 15.6k (6729) | 2 | 46 | ⚡ |
| 2024-01-04 | 11.4k | 11.4k ( | 3 | 38 | ✍️ |
| 2024-01-05 | 11.3k | 11.4k ( | 1 | 41 | ? |
| 2024-01-06 | 6691 | 6282 ( | 0 | 38 | ✍️ |
| 2024-01-07 | 8053 | 8503 ( | 3 | 20 | ✍️ |
| 2024-01-08 | 8873 | 9164 (1219) | 2 | 12 | ⚡ |
| 2024-01-09 | 5828 | 6808 (4649) | ✍️ | ||
| 2024-01-10 | 14.1k | 14.4k (4857) | 3 | 22 | ⚡ |
| 2024-01-11 | 11.8k | 10.4k (4109) | 3 | 22 | ✍️ |
| 2024-01-12 | 8743 | 8016 (4778) | 3 | 41 | ✍️ |
| 2024-01-13 | 9393 | 9339 (3116) | 2 | 17 | ⚡ |
| 2024-01-14 | 14.2k | 6697 (3533) | 4 | 41 | ✍️ |
| 2024-01-15 | 10.2k | 11.3k (3395) | 1 | 15 | ⚡ |
| 2024-01-16 | TBD | TBD (2500) | TBD | TBD | ⚡ |
One day, I will analyze my sleep using these charts. And then I will make a challenge out of it to have a very precise and accurate amount of sleep. Precise means here that I will be consistent about how long I sleep. And accurate means that I will have the amount of sleep that I planned for.
I also realized that there is probably indeed an optimal amount of sleep for every person (which also depends on their age). I noticed that I get a lot more motivated, happy, creative and funny [0] when I am a little sleep deprived. It feels like my brain is too tired to think about all these things I usually think about so I actually start to think about things I usually not think about or at least from a different angle. Or it's just less overthinking.
But with too much sleep, I get very demotivated. Might be related to less exposure to sun (since this means I wake up very late and then go to bed when the sun rises) but I think it's not only that. Everything feels sluggish. Like a slug.
me trying to get out of bed after I already had 12 hours of sleep
Recent Superzaps
1. Everyone I've met would be well-served thinking more about what to focus on
I'm starting to feel bad to mention @elvismercury so much here. But well, tHiS iS mY pOsT so I can mention whoever I want, right?
@k00b sent me the link to this post yesterday when I mentioned I don't know which post he is talking about. When he sent me the link, I remembered. When I saw @elvismercury's post for the first time, I started reading it but I fell asleep since I usually only partly "bookend" my day, as @Coyote_Cosmico nicely put it [1]. We were talking about focus since I mentioned I feel very motivated but I don't know where to best put all this motivation into. I feel all over the place with my plans what I should do and my attention span and focus suffers from that.
For example, I had plans to start a BitDevs in my city and it seems like I am actually going to do it. We don't have a location yet (but a Matrix server). I struggled for weeks to come up with a solution to this location problem. I didn't want to pay a coworking space a few hundred bucks just for a room for one hour for just 3-4 people (myself included) — that's too much commitment too early. But when I went for a longer very late walk a few days ago, I realized that I was still making things too complicated. We don't need a location. What did people do when they couldn't meet somewhere in the past four years? [2] They met online!
For the first meeting at the end of January, we planned that I would give a short presentation about bitcoin mining and then we would relive the early days of bitcoin by mining bitcoin using our CPUs. Since it will all be online now, I will setup a WireGuard VPN (using my own blog posts as reference) to connect our nodes.
As mentioned a few days ago, something similar to SNL but for developers (or anyone interested in the development of SN) also struck me as a potentially great idea. But that would (again) take up a lot of time and I only have so much time before I get overwhelmed and then just want to hide myself again and do absolutely nothing. Or as @orthwyrm would write it:
__@_'-' _@'-' @
There is a lot more I want to write about this phenomenon of "too much motivation", its relationship with sleep and my own experience with it but I notice I am already rambling too much (again) and I actually wanted to focus how much I liked to read the blog post. So I'll continue with my highlights:
When I was younger, I was never this lucky. It is partly because I was less skilled. But it is also partly because I would interrupt the nonconscious processing back then. Unintentionally, I would tell my brain to focus on something else—a conflict in a TV series I was watching, for instance. I would watch an episode before bed, and the cliffhanger would open a loop in my head. That loop would be churning in my head as I slept; I woke to a blank page. I don’t have time for that anymore. I make sure to always have an open loop concerning my writing. And I close every other loop—by wrapping it up as fast as I can, or by writing it down on a list, or, preferably, by not opening the loop at all.
I noticed the same. When I started this series, the words streamed out of my fingers. They still do but significantly less. I noticed that it's very related to my experience during the day. When I do a lot of different things (and have less sleep to have more time awake), I experience a lot more things that I want to write about (duh). I think this is related to this "open loop" that Henrik Karlsson is talking writing about. My brain had to process so much during my sleep that I woke up with a lot of ideas what I could write about and how — since I basically already was thinking about tomorrow's post the whole day prior and went to sleep with these thoughts; too tired to do anything else.
This also has a very nice feeling of symbiosis. To have something to write, I need to experience things I can write about. And to experience things in a more profound way, I need to write about them. Writing is Thinking.
And to get even more out of the experience (of writing), reading the comments from other people is highly motivating. It starts to feel like a flywheel that is turning itself. I can very relate to this though:
I didn’t tell anyone that I was writing a blog. Having my friends read it would have made it harder for me to experiment and do things that risked embarrassment or failure.
I used to be disappointed that none of the people I used to call my friends (that's a different story) were interested in SN. But now I am happy that my family isn't that interested in SN, too. If I knew they would read every post of me here, I would definitely feel different about writing all of this here. Even though I know I shouldn't. However, at some point, they are going to find out in some way about it though. And in some way, I am looking forward to that.
2. My recent BTC story: What happened with me yesterday (real story)
@kurszusz told us a real story (mentioning it's real makes it really real, I guess) the day before yesterday.
I liked reading it since I also find it very interesting what other people find interesting about bitcoin like @elvismercury:
It's interesting to know what other people find interesting about btc -- it's usually a very different set of things than what would occur to me, so it's a good opportunity to learn. I look forward to the update.
The most interesting thing for him was the finite supply of Bitcoin...He told me that 21 millions is not much, and it exist around 60 millions people who own more than 1 million $, and if this "ponzi asset" will be mediatized the price will go extremely higher, because of rich man and institutional investments... The second aspect he liked it, was that the "blockchain never forget", and every transaction is coded and encrypted, and anyone can see / verify it, because it is open source...
Sounds like that person's favorite Satoshi quote will be this:
It might make sense just to get some in case it catches on. If enough people think the same way, that becomes a self fulfilling prophecy.
I remember when I went to visit my parents and I had the Bitcoin Magazine that I got for free at btc++ in Berlin with me. My mom saw it and flipped through the pages; much to my anxiety but also curiosity what she is going to say about it.
She:
What is this?
Me:
A magazine about bitcoin. It's a digital currency.
She:
I don't like it. Don't do such things.
Me:
I work in this space since early this year.
That's when we both started to laugh and I explained to her in more detail what this bitcoin thing was. She initially didn't like that it was about money since she associates money with problems (understandably).
But when I started to mention that bitcoin was created right after the 2007-2008 financial crisis and that the anonymous creator left a message that clearly hints that it's a system designed to prevent similar crises, she got very interested. She lived through this time. She is also an immigrant from a country with an authoritative government that oppresses minority groups and with constant tensions between religious groups. In the past, I even heard plans of National Divorce aka Secession.
When she asked who is in control, I told her that no one is. Everyone is equal. There will never be more than 21M bitcoins. That's when I saw a spark in her eyes. She immediately got the value proposition of bitcoin in that moment.
We talked more about real estate and gold afterwards though and even my father joined in later.
Looking forward to the update from @kurszusz. It's been two days already.
Challenge of the Day
Song of the Day
You look so much different out of the rear view From this angle and the back of your head It looks a lot like somebody else And I guess that I could go it alone, well if I had to But I know it’s a long way down for nothing (Yeah)The sight of your eyes got inside of my head I wanted your heart and got poison instead I spin around and see nothing but you I guess it’s been awhile since I had nothing to do
Sudden endings contain cliff hangers. But is that necessarily a bad thing?
[0] At least I think I am funny.
[1] That term immediately stuck with me and I will probably remember @Coyote_Cosmico forever as the "bookend stacker" now.
[2] Wow, it's really been four years now since the pandemic started. Is it finally over now? Feels like yesterday when I was sitting on a couch with my climbing friend (that had to friend zone me to save our friendship). We talked about our future. We both wanted to switch universities; partly because we then wouldn't have to see each other every day anymore.
Footnotes
Footnotes
[0]more compared to superscripts I have to admit. But/Or I think it's just me being a nonconformist, lol. 2 ↩[1]link[1]-like numbering