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352 sats \ 17 comments \ @south_korea_ln 10 Feb BooksAndArticles

Blogging forces clarity. It makes you structure your thoughts, sharpen your perspective. You stop writing fluff because — let’s be honest — you’re writing for yourself. And if you can’t keep yourself interested, nobody else stands a chance.

My vimwiki is like my personal blog (a wiki, really, but what's in a name). It's not even accessible to the outside world except the part with my ongoing projects that I've shared with my research advisor.

Indeed, it forces me to organize my thoughts. I do this nearly every other hour. Update my thoughts, plow through my simulations and the roadblocks I encounter. When it's not open, my productivity is down. When it is and I start writing in there from the first hour of the day, I'll have a productive day. It forces me to refocus and figure out at each timestep what is keeping me from getting to the next step.

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183 sats \ 3 replies \ @sox 10 Feb

Creating blogs is a recurring desire of mine. When I was younger I used to open lots of them almost every 6 months, the thing that penalized me a lot was that I would just lose interest and don't want to do anything with it.

Using blogs for personal growth is a paradigm I haven't explored yet, thanks!

Now I wanna open another one again :P ...maybe a simple one that I can avoid to delete

72 sats \ 2 replies \ @south_korea_ln OP 10 Feb

Maybe use one of the platforms powered by NOSTR this time~~

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @sox 10 Feb

Definitely! I was reading about Oracolo for static blogs but will take suggestions if you have any ^^

50 sats \ 0 replies \ @south_korea_ln OP 10 Feb

You'll get better advice by asking the question directly in the ~nostr territory. I know there are some clients with this functionality, but i don't know what's being maintained.

21 sats \ 3 replies \ @cryotosensei 10 Feb

I have been blogging in various forms since my college days. As for me, sometimes I just feel compelled to write because the words literally form in my mind and I cannot rest until I pen them down.

I disagree about the no reader part though. I think in this day and age, you must be proactive enough to let people know that you are writing. Case in point: I sent my colleagues this blog link. this morning. I’m sure at least one of them read my article. The readers won’t come if you don’t promote yourself haha

24 sats \ 2 replies \ @south_korea_ln OP 10 Feb

I was thinking about you when posting this. You're one of the few that blogs very consistently here.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @cryotosensei 10 Feb

I’m honoured to occupy your headspace haha

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @south_korea_ln OP 10 Feb

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21 sats \ 6 replies \ @DarthCoin 10 Feb

I have the same feeling with my guides blog.

100 sats \ 5 replies \ @south_korea_ln OP 10 Feb

At least, your guides get read.

But indeed, the simple fact of writing them must have helped you building knowledge too.

You only truly understand something when you can explain it to someone else (Feynman, i think).

127 sats \ 4 replies \ @DarthCoin 10 Feb

At least, your guides get read.

hahaha you make me laugh :) do you think so? Sincerely, several of them were just drafts. When I was testing something new, I like to write down the steps I did, screenshots sometimes, taking notes of details, to remember me how I did it. Bitcoin apps are not so simple under the hood as many think and you need to understand all the functionalities in order to truly understand how to use them. We are opening new charters here.

So after I wrote drafts and notes, I took them and change them a bit and convert them into guides for noobs and other bitcoiners. So literally I wrote the guides for myself in the first place. Indeed I learned a lot just by writing them.

I see popping up new guides but many are just shitGPT and copy/paste sections from others, barely can see a truly PoW guide that was worked hard. I like for example the Parman and Minibolt guides. Are truly PoW.

21 sats \ 3 replies \ @south_korea_ln OP 10 Feb

I've read a few. But mostly when I have a specific problem. It's like when I had to use chantools. One is only interested in such a tool when a problem has already happened.

AI won't work for these new charters as you call them. It'll work for things that everyone knows how to do. My guess is that some ChatGPT answers on these topics have been trained on your guides... whether you like it or not~~

0 sats \ 2 replies \ @DarthCoin 10 Feb

btw... Oliver just released a new version for chantools https://github.com/lightninglabs/chantools/tree/v0.13.6

some ChatGPT answers on these topics have been trained on your guides.

indeed: #874938

I wonder if is possible that every time a shitGPT is using my content, they pay me sats.

shitGPT MUST PAY, not the noobs

200 sats \ 1 reply \ @south_korea_ln OP 10 Feb

This made me wonder if there is a way to protect your data from being scraped. I found this, but it relies on the bots voluntarily complying.

The day those AI agents can fulfill LN invoices, it'll be good to update your Robots.txt file with a prompt and a static invoice to send you some sats~~

I'll keep it in mind next time I need Chantools...

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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @TheMorningStar 11 Feb

Actually content work is not just related to creation, it is also related to publication as well as distribution. So whenever the matter of content creation comes into existence along with it content consumption I mean content distribution also comes into existence. And when there is content distribution then definitely content consumption means content reading or viewing will be there.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @denlillaapan 10 Feb

Exactly. Best possible practice