Thanks @Sparrow! How are you doing?

Haha, thanks @voyager. Gotta get a yearly dose of #FOMO to make sure I appreciate being back. How are you?

Made it!
(Almost - it's not 2019 in my timezone *just* yet.)

How are you doing?

Thanks Bevan! Can't wait to see what stuff you've added while I've been gone. As a @Brave user, I'm already liking the emoji input. How are you enjoying Germany?

Why would rate of change of token holders over time be a useful metric?

It's live: https://txbatch.com

Currently working on a way to easily add trial users.

It's not just an ETH explorer. Nor is it intended to be used by the general public (yet).

It's a transaction batch search - designed for busy crypto exchanges who need to verify transactions, across chains, at scale.

I'll post more about it if anyone's curious?

2 months! Insane. Amazing how little can happen in 6 months and then a few key moments spread over days change everything.

Good idea lol, laziness is underrated

RP @Ardon: "I want everyone to be happy and lazy this New Years week! As how these platforms usually start, I would be happy to follow back anyone who follows me!"

I'm going to call it 2019, even though it's still 2018 in my current time zone.

Happy new year. I hope everyone has a fantastic start to theirs. Let's make it a year like no other.

cc Twitter - going on #digitaldetox.

Keep an eye out for https://txbatch.com — if I'm sharing any news, it'll be via https://www.linkedin.com/in/JamesScaur.

On this note, I think it's time to take an annual #digitaldetox. See you in 2019, peepers.

So far me and Winston (my co-founder) have made great progress with @txBatch (our new bulk search block explorer) - we have validation from multiple people, and the MVP's ready to launch.

Pushups and high knees for ~45mins. I'd like to get a gym membership sometime soon - being in a gym where other people are working out, and I have proper weights, is way more effective.

RP @levelsio: What we call “a startup” is changing rapidly
https://www.indiehackers.com/@jessems/acb03ba9fe

https://twitter.com/levelsio/status/1061893235591700481

• First ‘real’ startup job + salary (not my ideal incent. structure but worth the experience)
• Lukewarm interest in crypto now full blown passion
• Hair now neck length
• Gave up uni/tertiary education, maybe forever
• First time living w/ strangers
• Got rid of most of my stuff

12 November 2017. The day I decided to delete vs. temporarily deactivate my socials. Anticipated FOMO was much greater than it’s reality, and it’s dissipated to near zero since - #JOMO.

How have you changed in the previous yr? More importantly, who will you be next yr?

Google flights & strategic layovers, booking directly with airlines, using train/flixbus once in Europe, Airbnb with friends, finding friends of friends to stay with are major savers

Hey Jude (Remastered) —The Beatles
https://open.spotify.com/track/0aym2LBJBk9DAYuHHutrIl #NowPlaying

Isn’t it awesome that in 250 years people will be able to see and hear music/live events in HD quality? Even perhaps get a sense of the feeling of being there as it happened.

1.3/ Unusued 6+ week bookmark declutter

https://progressbarserver.appspot.com/ —Year progress bar (also: http://moriclock.com/)
https://cdn.preterhuman.net/texts/ —Def. at least 1 thing to spike any crypto-person's interest
https://twitter.com/patio11/status/936615043126370306

1.2/ Unusued 6+ week bookmark declutter

http://www.tablesgenerator.com/markdown_tables —Markdown table generator (used this w/ https://github.com/showdownjs/showdown, fun to play with data)
https://vincent.bernat.ch/en/blog/2018-more-privacy-blog —Make your blog privacy friendly

1.1/ Unusued 6+ week bookmark declutter

https://www.hetzner.com/registrationrobot?country=ot —Bulk domain registration bot (free)
https://getbitbar.com/ —put anything on your Mac menubar (free/OS)
https://vimeo.com/watch —cool for watching nice indie films
https://bisq.network/

1.0/ Doing a bit of a bookmark declutter for anything I haven't used in 6 weeks. Saving some links in case they're useful for others:

https://www.aconvert.com/video/merge/ —Video combiner
https://kimchisocks.com/shop-2/ —Cool crypto socks
https://sivers.org/book —@sivers notes

Advice after switching to @TutanotaTeam:
-Get/keep your newsletters on Gmail. It's much easier to blast through with https://emailga.me, plus you can use the user_name+service@gmail.com trick
-Keep logins for all non-sensitive services to Gmail
-Enjoy a clean division of priority

Not sure I understand what this is replying to - is it "What's going on in your head?"

Sorry, what do you mean by empty set?

Just one of the ways blockchain is going to make your life easier: automatic web3 signing instead of having to remember usernames/passwords.

Far more secure than hackable login credentials stored on a centralised server…

https://twitter.com/JamesScaur/status/1061876600386465793

Great that you're putting this out there. No one is free from their environment. Our psychology, drives, and capacity for being terrible is the same as them. I know for a fact I'd be the same if I was a product of their env https://twitter.com/ameensol/status/1061662793298935808

Worth reading @ameensol's story. While I don't agree that religion/narratives are useless I do agree that blind/fear-based belief is insane -- it allows us to rationalise some of the vilest actions we're capable of. https://twitter.com/ameensol/status/1061662721362411520

I like the focus on getting something out now via Medium vs. building a custom website & means of distribution. Looks great and excited to see progress.

https://twitter.com/ankitkr0/status/1061576473193005056

It's also super underrated to be in a social environment where the people around you are focusing on working towards their aims, building businesses, improving their health, growing mentally/physically/emotionally.

Of course, not everyone has the ability to save up that much in a year, but for me that could be working at McDonalds on a 9-5 for 8 months while on my old living costs (flat, bargain box food, power, bike). Change that to a dairy worker, and for sure it'd be hard, but done in ~5

Even NZ can be cheap with the right planning and attitude. Working holidays can let you work (admittedly basic) jobs for NZ wages. I met an Argentinian guy who was a manager for a real estate company, who made the same baking bread in Waiheke Island. Same pay, minus stress+hours.

Travel is far cheaper than you think.

For $1121 (NZ) I was able to go from CHC-AKL-HKG-SKG-MUC-AMS-CPH-RIX-TBS.

Even accommodation and food can be super cheap/free, if you make friends and exchange help (or live in a cheap country).

Runway of ~3 months in NZ turns into 6 here…

Also related to "What's going on in everyone else's head?"

> How can I create win-win situations? How can I ask, deduce, and help people get what they want/need (whether conscious or subconscious) and create win-wins that help both of us?

That seems like the core skill of life.

... is there any overlap?

Can I ever have such a similar experience to someone else that I can 'get' them?

Can we ever 'see something with the same eyes', to such a degree that it's 99% or higher?

What if my blue is your red and another's green?

The other big curiosity I have: What's going on in everyone else's head?

It's already a miracle that I am alive + conscious, experiencing, tasting, smelling, seeing life.

But I'm in a world where other people have their own entirely unique experiences as rich as my own... (1/2)

Additionally there's a lot more that's practically related to the world:
*What does the world look like with AI/big data analysis and decentralisation on the rise?
*What is true now that won't be in 50 years?
*What am I wrong about?
*Will I have the guts to restart my life @ 50?

Great photo.

I'm curious about nearly everything, but in particular, the things most people avoid talking about.

*What does death feel like?
*Why is there consciousness? Why does this monkey I inherit get to observe itself?
*What's the max pain possible to feel? What about fun?

@RP @mediocregopher:
"peepeth is so much more refreshing than steemit, wow...."

Wow. Well done @reneil1337! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmNzG6LFF70

*Follow the people they follow
• Current goal + progress (i.e. Stickk/Beeminder-like public accountability for weight loss, invitations sent, meditation days, gratitude practises)
• Favorite quote

• Add the following fields to profile as optional add ons (limit 3 viewable, maybe)
- occupation/job
- weird habit
- related peeper
- spirit animal / meme
- call to action
• Show distance between your location and their location
• Double-follow: follow their followers

• Animations of some sort (hover over profile photo, get a little jiggle/zoom)
• Private message or preferably, messaging service link (as opposed to public profiles like GH, TW, give an option to open a Telegram/Signal/WhatsApp window. Poss. add condition to be mutual followers)

Thanks for sharing #lkie

That doesn't change wanting to be significant and loved, wanting novelty and community, wanting to solve problems and having expectations and being sad when life doesn't meet up to them, that's just human. No easy fix and I'm not sure life would be fun with a fix. But yeah.

A recent @dailystoic journal question was "What will remain when all else passes away?"

The answer I always keep coming back to is "presence". Legacy, effort, overcoming adversity - it'll all be forgotten. The only thing that really can't be taken away is awareness of right now.

Changing {{ user.name }} to "my brother" always provides exceptional results.

When do you start using decentralised social media? https://www.dapp.com/article/When-DO-You-Start-Using-Decentralized-Social-Media

Limiting social media decreases depression, anxiety: https://guilfordjournals.com/doi/10.1521/jscp.2018.37.10.751

"It's an endless quest, without knowing what your quest is"
https://youtu.be/SvMiXk2gGSk

via @ziasami

(full interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOJVcYHIkZM)