„productivity“ or commercial success isn’t the goal. the goal is to be outside more, to build my own house and then broader citadel community with friends and family. it’s kind of hard to explain what’s in my head but I know some people here intuitively understand. check back in a few years.

if there’s some small business that comes from this years from now that‘d be great but the first priority is to build the vision without permission. the second priority is to update the vision as we learn new skills.

when it works it’s not gonna be about career or status games. it’s about getting your hands dirty and then going swimming. waking up for sunrise jiu jitsu or yoga or lifting. What do you do is like a really dumb american question. What do you do for fun? ask people that instead. you’ll see that many people struggle to answer it. what do you do for exercise, for food, to stay grounded?

health, safety, fire, water, food, shelter secured, live together and contribute in person, trading skills, maybe spending around a little bitcoin

electricity light running water everything else is cake. hundreds of thousands of decisions need to be made. i like to be thorough, get autistic when it comes to the details. which corners will be hand bevelled? which columns will have arches? all of them?

foundational structural problems, then aesthetics. sometimes you get to do both at once.

no one is coming to save you. just do what you can in a day, watch the sunset, mix more concrete. acknowledge the fuckups and endless unknowns and change the plan. revise the timeline, delete the timeline. go for a hike. plant something. cut something down.

really love living outside. ditching the city and getting out here to just build in nature. life is just a really sick art project.