Learning just for the sake of learning.
Another common trap for people (me) to fall into is thinking they're making progress by accumulating knowledge, when in reality, that's all they're doing.
There's no action driving the learning.
Aside from my SN consumption, if I'm learning something now, I try to ensure it's actionable. It's information I can put towards something.
Now this isn't to say that all information outside the scope of your personal goals isn't relevant, it's just that it becomes dangerous when you try to replace creation with consumption entirely.
How do you try to find a balance of the two?
What are you not wasting your time with anymore?
I finally finished reading Dune. Well, it was mostly listening to the audiobook during work but also sitting down to read the physical book when I have time in the evenings. What a masterpiece! The world design, the imagination, the characters, all so complex and interesting. Frank Herbert is a true genius! Will likely start Dune Messiah soon. Would really like to finish the whole series, seems really fun.
One of the inspiring "quotes" that I actually remembered:
Q: How do you motivate yourself?
A: You don't. You just do it.
What about you?
@k00b - @hn seems to be opening duplicate posts. For example, these are identical:
https://stacker.news/items/200629
https://stacker.news/items/200627
I don't think liquidity is necessarily always going to be an interesting and complex problem for two reasons. First, the network will gradually become less dynamic as people who transact frequently will establish long-lived and maximally direct connections with one another. Second, tools, algorithms, and data will be available to help non-experts deploy liquidity in an increasingly effective way.
Hmm yeah we should do that. Let us schedule one.
This changes over time.
When I was a kid and teenager, it was mixed martial arts. I spent 12 years doing increasingly competitive mixed martial arts, became a second-degree black belt in my particular federation of schools, and became an assistant instructor as my first job. I watch some UFC with my husband because it's the only sport I understand at a pretty deep level.
I was also into trading card games, mainly Magic the Gathering. And still am, but it comes and goes in waves.
Although I haven't played any in two years due to work overload, video games have been a lifelong hobby of mine. From Nintendo and Playstation, to Starcraft, to Overwatch, etc. I've been so busy in the past 2-3 years because the macro environment has been absolutely crazy, and diving into the bitcoin rabbit hole has been another full time job. My work has therefore also been my hobby, at least for this period of time. All in.
Watching movies or shows with my husband, and discussing/debating with him about their content and execution.
Learning in general is a hobby of mine. I went through a phase where I read every major religious text, and a phase where I went through all the major world philosophies. I like to understand how people think in terms of what their highest ideals and frameworks are, and how they differ, and what their commonalities are. Back when internet forums were more of a thing, I was an admin on a religion/philosophy forum.
One thing I've noticed: almost all nostr profiles have a display name, a picture, and a bio, and almost all of them seem to be stored exclusively on relay.damus.io. I've connected to the top 5 relays on nostr.watch, queried for metadata for random accounts, and I only get responses from relay.damus.io. No one else has that data.
I have a theory about why this is too. I think it's because so many people use the amethyst and damus apps, which start off with damus as a default relay, and the first thing they do is create a profile. So that info goes on the damus relay. Later on, they may add other relays or remove damus. But when they created their profile, damus was their main relay. Consequently, damus has almost all profile data, and basically no one else does.
I know one way to help solve this. I could write an app that downloads all metadata posts from damus and rebroadcasts them to other relays. But it feels like there's an underlying problem there that this idea doesn't address. The underlying problem, I think, has to do with the intersection of "wanting to set reasonable defaults for your users" and "not wanting to make everyone reliant on just one relay." Setting people up on the damus relay by default is a good idea, because so many people are using it. But defaulting to damus also means damus has a bunch of data that few other relays have. And right now, at least for profile data, it seems to me there's an imbalance toward the latter.