“The human spirit should remain in charge.” Pablo & Gigi talk about the wind. In this dialogue: Wind More Wind Information Calories, and how to measure them Digital Wellbeing Rescue Time Teleology of Technology Platforms get users Hooked (book) Feeds are slot machines Movie Walls Tweetdeck and Notedeck IRC vs the modern feed 37Signals: “Hey , let’s just charge users!” “You wouldn’t zap a car crash” Catering to our highest self VS catering to our lowest self Devolution of YouTube 5-star ratings to thumb up/down to views Long videos vs shorts The internet had to monetize itself somehow (with attention ) “Don’t be evil” and why Google had to remove it Questr : 2D exploration of nostr ONOSENDAI by Arkinox Freedom tech & Freedom from Tech DAUs of jumper cables Gossip and it’s choices “The secret to life is to send it” Flying water & flying bus stops RSS readers , Mailbrew , and daily digests Nostr is high signal and less addictive Calling nostr posts “ tweets ” and recordings being “on tape” Pivoting from nostr dialogues to a podcast about wind The unnecessary complexity of NIP-96 Blossom (and wind) Undoing URLs, APIs, and REST ISBNs and cryptographic identifiers SaaS and the DAU metric Highlighter Not caring where stuff is hosted When is an edited thing a new thing? Edits, the edit wars, and the case against edits NIP-60 and inconsistent balances Scroll to text fragment and best effort matching Proximity hashes & locality-sensitive hashing Helping your Uncle Jack of a horse Helping your uncle jack of a horse Can we fix it with WoT? Vertex & vibe-coding a proper search for nostr Linking to hashtags & search queries Advanced search and why it’s great Search scopes & web of trust The UNIX tools of nostr Pablo’s NDK snippets Meredith on the privacy nightmare of Agentic AI Blog-post-driven development ( Lightning Prisms , Highlighter ) Sandwich-style LLM prompting, Waterfall for LLMs ( HLDD / LLDD ) “Speed itself is a feature” MCP & DVMCP Monorepos and git submodules Olas & NDK Pablo’s RemindMe bot “Breaking changes kinda suck” Stories, shorts, TikTok, and OnlyFans LLM-generated sticker styles LLMs and creativity (and Gigi’s old email ) “AI-generated art has no soul” Nostr, zaps, and realness Does the source matter? Poker client in bitcoin v0.0.1 Quotes from Hitler and how additional context changes meaning Greek finance minister on crypto and bitcoin ( Technofeudalism , book) Is more context always good? Vervaeke’s AI argument What is meaningful? How do you extract meaning from information? How do you extract meaning from experience? “What the hell is water” Creativity, imagination, hallucination, and losing touch with reality “Bitcoin is singularity insurance” Will vibe coding make developers obsolete? Knowing what to build vs knowing how to build 10min block time & the physical limits of consensus Satoshi’s reasons articulated in his announcement post Why do anything? Why stack sats? Why have kids? All you need now is motivation Upcoming agents will actually do the thing Proliferation of writers: quantity VS quality Crisis of sameness & the problem of distribution Patronage, belle epoche, and bitcoin art Niches, and how the internet fractioned society Joe’s songs Hyper-personalized stories Shared stories & myths (Jonathan Pageau) Hyper-personalized apps VS shared apps Agency, free expression, and free speech Edgy content & twitch meta , aka skating the line of demonetization and deplatforming Using attention as a proxy currency Farming eyeballs and brain cycles Engagement as a success metric & engagement bait “You wouldn’t zap a car crash” Attention economy is parasitic on humanity The importance of speech & money What should be done by a machine? What should be done by a human? “The human spirit should remain in charge” Our relationship with fiat money Active vs passive, agency vs serfdom