silencedogood on Nostr: Hello! My immediate intention is to help creatives in my sphere understand the 'why' ...

Hello! My immediate intention is to help creatives in my sphere understand the 'why' of the chaos in the world. Most people jump straight to the 'what' (as in 'what is bitcoin?'). It amazes me how few people understand basic economics, despite that the economy touches everyone's lives in some capacity literally every day. There are many resources that make a good case for why broken money is the root of tension in society. One obvious example is the book Broken Money by @lynalden, which is fantastic. However, even though it explains the root of the problem in simple terms, that book (and others like it) tend to attract people with an explicit interest in finance, economics, etc. The average person, such as my girlfriend (a doctor, who has the brains to understand the book), won't pick up that book no matter how clear and terse it is because economics does not interest her. On the other hand, she listens to music. My belief is you have to meet people where they are at. Music is a universal language. It is the common denominator. Last time I checked, #Metallica sold out a stadium in #Brazil with fans singing every lyric even though most of them probably did not speak a lick of English. With this in mind, I think #music can be used to simply explain concepts such as decentralization, privacy and broken money in today's world, which gets people to eventually understand bitcoin. So that is my intention; to use music to get the broadest audience possible to care about the things people on Nostr care about. If you start by trying to explain 'what is bitcoin' without first explaining 'why have we arrived at this point of dysfunction', you lose the audience from the start. I want to change that. I just happen to believe music is one of the better vessels out there for doing so. To your other question, yes I have heard of @Wavlake, though admittedly have not spent much time with it. There is so much to explore with Nostr, but I'll be dabbling with Wavlake more and would love to help their cause. I do have experience advising companies that were trying to do something similar to them. The biggest obvious hurdle for Wavlake is achieving critical mass, which is a little trickier with a service like that compared to Nostr due to the sheer volume of IP owned by the major record labels, which is difficult and expensive to license, and minimizes the incentive for the casual listener to check out the service (and ultimately, those are the listeners needed for critical mass). Of course, there is much more to this. If you know anyone working on Wavlake, I'd be happy to speak to them!