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naddr1qq…dpqfThis is my knife. There are many like it but this one is mine.
I know it's mine, because it has the block height at the time of my order laser-etched into the steel.
The attached picture, artfully staged, is contrived and does not represent what most days will look like in the working life of this blade. It is a tool of substantial durability and utility and, as such, it will be used to accomplish a wide variety of useful cutting tasks.
Although it is pristine and shiny now, it will not always be so. Commensurate to the quality of its construction, it will be treated with the care and respect that is due an object that materially improves the quality of one's life through utility. We should seek to treat all our tools in such a way, for it is through the advanced use of tools that we humans most strongly distinguish ourselves from other creatures, and it is through the care and maintenance of these tools that we demonstrate ourselves worthy of the superior powers they grant us.
However, this knife will nevertheless take on a character and patina as it is used throughout the years. Though I will do my best to use it skillfully, and to keep it clean and sharp, it will gradually accumulate evidence of its use. Nothing escapes the inexorable advance of entropy. Small scratches, a worn grip, darkened steel; these things are unavoidable when such a piece is used regularly for its intended purpose.
I am reminded of a passage from Matthew Crawford's "Shop Class as Soulcraft" (an excellent book on the nature and value of work, and the skilled trades in particular), pertaining to a mahogany coffee table that the author had built:
"I imagined the table fading into the background of a future life, the defects in its execution as well as the inevitable stains and scars becoming a surface textured enough that memory and sentiment might cling to it, in unnoticed accretions."
This knife will not be kept in a glass case. It is a knife; its purpose is to cut. But I will take care of it, so that it might better serve me, and in hopes that years from now I might pass it down to an as-yet unborn son or daughter.
If you have use for a quality, everyday-carry blade in your life (and if you don't, that is worth examining), consider the Cyberita. As the designer points out, there is no single blade that is appropriate for all tasks, but this one is versatile and will serve you well in many applications.
Being able to support a fellow truth seeker, freedom enthisiast, and value producer through the medium of Bitcoin also gives me great satisfaction. This is how we win; not by giving a middle finger to the current broken system but by ignoring it entirely as irrelevant. A Canadian and a Norwegian are conducting international commerce in 2026; we're not using dying political shitcoins to do it.
Like this knife, Bitcoin should not be kept in a glass case either. Bitcoin is a tool; its purpose is to transfer value. Use it as such, and help manifest the better world that we all know it could be someday.
FeynStructure on Nostr: Some thoughts on tools, physical and digital. ...
Some thoughts on tools, physical and digital.