What I’m doing now

(This is a now page, and if you have your own site, you should make one, too.)

Updated November 7th, 2023, from my home in New Zealand.

finishing “Useful Not True”

I’m fascinated with this subject of choosing beliefs that are useful to me now, not caring if they’re true. So fascinated that this is my next book — a dive into this subject so I can learn what others have thought around this and think deeper about it myself.

1. Most of what people say is not necessarily true.
2. Most of what you think is not necessarily true.
3. Force yourself to find better perspectives.
4. Adopt one that works for you for now.

I’ve been learning and digesting these ideas for a year, so it’s time to finish the book now.

3D Printer

My boy (age 11) is a maker. He wakes up and starts making or designing right away. He’s been like this since he was 5.

So I got him his first 3D Printer: a Bambu A1 Mini with 14 colors of filament. Just arrived 10 days ago, and it’s so exciting. We both had dreams (literally) about 3D printing on its first night here.

Any advice appreciated.

Tech Independence

I spent 50+ hours on a tutorial teaching everyone how to have their own server. But people were finding it too difficult. So I spent 30+ hours more to make it easier. Updated version at sive.rs/ti.

My idea for round 3: I buy a physical server, and provide OpenBSD accounts on it. I’d make a service that gives people their own private OpenBSD virtual server, and has a tutorial on the command-line, teaching them how to use it to its fullest. The tutorial would both activate services (like a mailserver) and teach the user how it works, testing to make sure they understand.

As always, the real goal is teaching people self-reliance, to help break dependence on cloud and subscription services.

Baby mice born

My boy got a girl mouse and boy mouse for the purpose of breeding. His first business. Eight babies were born on October 10th. So cute. So exciting.