Carson

When did you notice a change in your maturity/personality/mindset?

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El dia primera de mi nueva escuela!

Well, orientation day at least 🖋️

https://i.nostr.build/ztGvScuS8j9AO4YqwYmYZe.jpg https://i.nostr.build/jg2ZfBD1EXlB3h8speKEVt.jpg

It’s a great day to have a great day

Driving through Amarillo and Clovis today means this is the playlist:

https://music.apple.com/us/album/amarillo-by-morning/1440764095?i=1440764256

https://music.apple.com/us/album/clovis/6784374364

Today’s pix including: Breakfist Ice baf Teaching Ralph to drive (freeway edition) Baking cobblah Fireworx

I am so grateful for the people in my life. Thank you God.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HL8cDBHw2nE&t=809s

Last weekend, I was lucky enough to visit

The homestead they are building is incredible, and it was so exciting to see the gardens and projects they are working on!

I was also able to attend #nostrnights at

where I met awesome people doing awesome things on nostr.

Attached below is my interview with nostr:npub1tx5ccpregnm9afq0xaj42hh93xl4qd3lfa7u74v5cdvyhwcnlanqplhd8g and nostr:npub192fkp2n32nk0hec893k2n3nwenlgka7lm8exastm5fjfclq9m5rsyq2cq4

https://a.nostr.build/ISf7HvKyKTw9otB3.m4a

Beejay interview!! More to come with time. Thank you so much for taking the time to talk with me!

https://a.nostr.build/QYBKt3yKUMuD60BO.mp3

I want to interview and learn from so many people on nostr. The lifestyles (homesteading, natural, health focused) and mindsets are well aligned with the life I want to live. I want to befriend you people and document it.

I plan to reach out to so many of you in the near future and I hope to connect with, learn from, develop a greater community with y’all. Heart emoji

What does frequency, resonance, vibes mean to you?

What are your thoughts on the pyramids?

Reposting cause I ❤️ women

There was a year when I was in high school that I picked a different path for myself. A different school model. It didn’t work out as expected and turned out to be the busiest and most stressful time of my life to that point. From wake to sleep I was busy every day with school work.

I am grateful for that year. I unlocked a new understanding of what I am capable of. There was a clarity of mind I associate with that time as well. I was thoughtful about what I wanted for myself and took action towards it.

As embarrassing as this is to admit, I have not kept that same clarity of mind, directionality, and consistent action. Life changes and distractions come into play. I can forgive myself for this, I am young and still learning.

I’ve recently noticed myself entering a period similar to that time. I spend considerable time every day doing work with my future in mind. I am pushing myself where I haven’t been in the past.

It may be some time before I am the person I aim to be, and perhaps more time until I’ve achieved the future I envision for myself. But I making progress and good things will inevitably come.

I too long for land

Ideally nanotech/nanomaterials, but more materials science more generally!

The reason I can’t work on this project for the time being is because I need to find a job. If any of y’all have a job for me in the Houston area, please do reach out.

Hey all, I’m excited to share something I’m working on. It is a scientific research journal built on nostr. I think nostr is the perfect architecture to build something that does research publishing better than what is the standard right now. To name a few key things I envision with this project:

1. Research accessible by anyone. Scientific knowledge should not be restricted to a select few. This is not to say that there isn’t value in expertise, but to say that there is also value in diversity of thought that can only come from those who were not educated in the same system as many experts.
2. Comments can be left to explain, criticize, suggest research ideas to a specific part of a paper using highlights.
3. Research moves faster because it is cheaper and easier to publish, and becuase more people can interact with it.

I’ve had this project in mind for quite a while, practically since I first learned about nostr. I don’t know how to code though. So this project is my first real foray into vibe coding. That being said, this project barely works when I use it, and likely won’t work when you try it. Further, it is currently a very limited version of what I believe a research journal built on nostr can be.

I am posting this, in part, as a bookmark. I have other priorities right now and will not continue working on this project at least until January. I do plan to return to it and make it something great. I really do believe in it. I hope to continue building and sharing my vision for this, and I hope to talk more with you all about it. I know many of you have some serious developer/nostr wisdom that I want to make use of.

I’ve built a client that you can access here: https://nostr-research-client-dfokevu51-carsonminors-projects.vercel.app/ It currently has a lot of papers I published while building and testing different features. Please excuse that mess.

I also built an associated relay: wss://nostr-research-relay.duckdns.org

Turns out pursuing your dreams is gratifying

Telling my brother about nostr. I said “anyone can run a relay” He says “quadriplegics can’t run a relay” Fair point.

Vibe coding https://image.nostr.build/919e589bf9244c14bf23947e62170d6d5bca67d3558542470b1d90bd07fdcb4f.jpg

Bluebird by Charles Bukowski

there's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out but I'm too tough for him, I say, stay in there, I'm not going to let anybody see you. there's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out but I pour whiskey on him and inhale cigarette smoke and the whores and the bartenders and the grocery clerks never know that he's in there.

there's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out but I'm too tough for him, I say, stay down, do you want to mess me up? you want to screw up the works? you want to blow my book sales in Europe? there's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out but I'm too clever, I only let him out at night sometimes when everybody's asleep. I say, I know that you're there, so don't be sad. then I put him back, but he's singing a little in there, I haven't quite let him die and we sleep together like that with our secret pact and it's nice enough to make a man weep, but I don't weep, do you?

Called in sick to work this morning and made the 7 hour haul to Mobile, Alabama for

. Met weirdos. Talked more freely than I’ve managed to in a while. Connected. I’m thankful to have attended and glad I told myself to go do the crazy thing.

This seems like a good opportunity to do an #introductions since I never did a proper nostr introduction so here I am. I’m Carson and I joined nostr about 2 years ago when I saw Jack Dorsey tweet his npub. As I learned about nostr, I got excited because it actually fixes the issue of censorship, and serves as a protocol engineered for free speech. I'd been mostly off social media for a few years (more because It's easy to waste time on and I’m worried about how it’ll affect my brain down the line). Nostr introduced me to bitcoin, and though I haven’t read as deep as I’d like into it yet, it seems to be pretty cool.

I am in my senior year of college. I will be graduating with a BS in Materials Science and Engineering in a few short months. I chose this path because of the interest in nanomaterials (carbon nanotubes, more specifically) I developed in high school. While in school, I got a job working in a nanomaterials research lab, where I became associate manager (until I quit today!).

Through working in research for nearly four years and reading research for five years, I have come to think research and research publishing could benefit from change. It is in my goals this year to learn to code and build what I see as the solution to the issues with research, and share that here with y’all.

One of my main goals at the moment is to find a job for when I graduate. I’m really interested in moving to the Austin or Houston areas. However, I recognize that I am at the mercy of life and the opportunities I encounter. I am entrepreneurial, fast learning, and motivated to work hard, given the right environment.

I love talking to and learning from people, biking, reading, wristwatches, cars and motorcycles (and fixing them). There’s lots more to me that I’ll try to share over time.

I haven't engaged a ton with the community on here, but I've followed some of y’all for a long time, and am happy to be a witness to the awesomeness here. Here’s to getting to know you all better and getting more involved this year!

Making a trip to Houston and Austin soon. Hoping to interview and connect with people. Particularly interested in learning from people involved in nanotechnology, but open to anyone who can teach me anything valuable. Any suggestions?

What really engages you?

#[0]​ paid relays are free to read no matter what right? Only ability to post is paid? Just checking

What vocabulary changes have been useful to you?

What are you an expert in? What key steps did you take to get there?

What have you enjoyed learning? Why?

What excites you?

What pain do you want in your life; what are you willing to struggle for?