Consolidation

The internet used to be a grand place. It was an untamed frontier of endless possibility, laid bare by the whimsical explorations of young pioneers earnestly building creations with the express intent of making the world a better place.

Now, it’s lost much of that novelty. The zeitgeist of today’s culture doesn’t give much room for the wild, unfettered freedoms of yesterdecade. There are pockets of originality, but operate as specific cases, not the norm.

Of course, this may all be my own speculation. We all do grow older and (hopefully) wiser, so maybe my youthful idealism has merely been stripped away by life experiences.

Either way, this is my last post on this blog, since it doesn’t satisfy my needs anymore. You can now find me at https://stucky.tech. Follow my updates at https://stucky.tech/now.

TechSplained

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Spinning up a new website is relatively easy, especially with copy-paste.

I made one. It’s called TechSplained. It doesn’t have anything cool on it yet, but it will. My goal is to simplify computers to make the average 12-year-old understand it.

First, though, I have to sort out my pile of “to CS read someday” stuff!

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The Adequacy Bible

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If you’re like me, you don’t always remember that much of the world doesn’t have easy access to the internet.

Since I made a large pile of distilled guides to help the most downtrodden, it’s way more likely that they don’t have the means to visit my website.

Thus, I’ve created The Adequacy Bible. It’s a very, very condensed form of the necessities outlined on the website, coming in at a meager 381 pages.

Feel free to get it for your prisoner friends, homeless people, that sort of thing. But, if you merely want to support me, save your $8.64 for something else more meaningful. That’s the lowest Amazon will publish on-demand for me. Instead, I’d love if you shared and reposted!

Oh, and unrelated stuff. I’ve updated EntertainingSpace. It’s fun, I promise.

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Substantively Built

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Creativity is a type of sickness. You get an infection, and feel compelled to build until the thing has finally migrated from inside your mind to the world around you.

I’ve been note-taking about the essence of reality for about a decade. I’ve finally done it: essays about everything.

I’m sincerely proud of this creation, and hope you enjoy it!

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Lots of InSite

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You will always miss all the attempts you never made.

The fear of failure stops us short from trying. Sometimes, we’re being rather sensible.

I now have 39 more Essays to build. Though I’ve published the heck out of the other 37 or so, this journey is probably about halfway done:

  1. AdequateLife Guides: pwned
  2. GainedInSite Essays: ~50% done
  3. TheoLogos cleanup + Perfect Society essay: confident
  4. Computer website: trying not to think about it to focus on everything before that

It’s a bit like giving birth. No matter how much productivity optimization and dietary regulation, and no matter how many doctors or engineersyou throw at the problem, gestation is still about 9 months.

My thought baby is still incubating, even now. I can confidently say I’m past the worst of it, but it’s hard to stay focused sometimes when it feels like the world will end as of November 3rd.

Anyway, it’s been 1.5 months since anything here, so now it’s been 0.

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Adequately Sited

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I find citations difficult. If we were to be precisely thorough, how much of our citations would not go back to children’s television or our family members?

I once remember hearing that common sense is “the set of prejudices acquired by adulthood”.

Seeing as how culture follows information, and info is constantly morphing and adapting, it’s no wonder everyone older than 30 thinks common sense is dwindling!

Common sense never gets cited. Maybe it should, but who has time for that?

For someone like me, I was never given common sense. So, I wrote an entire website of guides to enforce it.

Just recently over the past month, I’ve finalized the last of the guides I’ve deemed “necessary” for me to move to another project:

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Adequately Posting

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I hate the concept of “updates”. While advertising things is important, why should I clutter your preferred wall/inbox/RSS reader/rolodex with stuff that you don’t care about?

To me, it feels like waste. It’s a bit like when someone sends the text message: “k”. There are more zeros and ones communicating where to send the message, where it’s coming from, and specific rules about how computers should treat it than in the text itself. It’s almost like having a friend that says:

Okay, so, since you’re my best friend and we trust each other, I want to get your attention for something. Do I have your attention now? Okay, great. So, here’s what I’m trying to say:

I think you’re cool.

Yep, that’s all I wanted to say. It’s something I’m certain that you wanted to hear and so I proceeded to tell you it.

While you can’t question that person’s intent, you probably wouldn’t make them a keynote speaker at your next Fancy Cheese Ball For The Politically Broke.

But, that’s pretty much the back end of how engineers designed computers. It makes sense because consistent information with inconsistent transmission media is insanely necessary when one swapped digit dictates the difference between “duck you” and another phrase.

In the world of content marketing, though, it’s the same thing. Cross-posting on social media requires getting a bazillion followers, which requires a bazillion twerts, licks, thumbs, and hurts. It clutters the airspace so important stuff doesn’t get through.

Anyway, </rant>, for now. I’ve built tons of stuff lately on theAdequateLife:

So…yeah. Lots of stuff. Most of it was digging through my digital attic and rebuilding it.

The end to my AdequateLife project is now in sight. All I have to worry about now are the basics on job-seeking, dating/marriage, parenting, entrepreneurship, and a few other odds and ends. Stay tuned!

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Functional Dysfunction

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No matter how much data we consume, our human nature is still story-based. I want to share my story so far, since you’ve been faithfully subscribing.

This huge project of mine is coming along nicely. I believe I’ve gotten past the most depressing part of it: the outlining.

For those of you just tuning in, I’ve been building an ambitious project. It’s a theoretical summary of all relevant philosophical realities about this world. My primary evidence is what other people far smarter than me said mixed with my own storied and discomforting background.

This project has taken some rather unique turns so far across the past year:

  1. Gather tons of notes I’ve scrawled across a few dozen media contained in the old philosaccounting.com site, outlinings as I tried to make sense of reality, frantic condensations of copy-pasted articles, strange doodles I made in an odd Lovecraftian dialect and purple-bismuth haze, and other madness minutiae. (January-March 2019)
  2. Try to assemble it into one whole cohesive site, complete with everything anyone would ever want to use the Internet for at all, ever. (March 2019)
  3. Scrap that once I realized that my site looked like a Swiss Army knife with a salad shooter and nailgun, then suffered existential angst for a few months while I wondered what the purpose of my existence was. (March-May 2019)
  4. Discovered how to make GainedInSite for my philosophical beliefs, AdequateLife for my practical guides, TheoLogos Site for my spiritual beliefs, EntertainingSpace for all my fun randomness, and this site for all my career portfolio needs. (May 2019)
  5. Tried to multi-task everything at once, successfully completing my CompTIA A+, most of TheoLogos, and not much else, then going through existential angst over how slow I was going. (June-September 2019)
  6. Poured my heart into studying for the CompTIA Net+, disregarding the lack of immediate career potential it could give me and also distracted by all the things. (October 2019-January 2020)
  7. More existential angst until I discovered that if I don’t want to do something because of something else I feel is more important, I should probably do that something else instead. (January 2020)
  8. Powered through all my hand-written notes, ignoring future career earnings and my 75-year-old self for the sake of getting this thing created. (January-March 2020)
  9. Realized I needed to make the AdequateLife guides before I could build the GainedInSite essays because “what” is an easier question than “why”. (March 2020)
  10. Finished my first AdequateLife guides in what feels like an eternity because of the new lifestyle that comes with my wife spawning a second offspring. (April 2020)

I once heard some tech blogger say that narrativizing the past is a bad habit because it adds arbitrary value to something that doesn’t have inherent value. However, I think he’s wrong. Nothing has inherent value. Philosophically, we work really hard operating human-constructed objects to gain things with human-agreed value, then trade those things (often unmeasurable with a stick) for other things that sustain us. This entire exchange is considered normal, but “normal” is just that because everyone else is doing it. I add value to my past because I feel like it, damn it!

I’m a writing factory these days. I ingest the creative works of people (mostly philosophers, some of them awful) and spit out the contents onto the canvas of a constructed imaginary light machine that can pipe a similar thing into many eyeballs at once. The more eyeballs, the more human-valued things they give me, though so many others fight for those eyeballs that I don’t care anymore. To put more simply, moving my fingers makes other people have ideas, but I don’t know which ones.

This whole thing is silly, but I get that endorphin kick from accomplishment, so even if a few eyeballs see it I feel like it did something for humanity. Based on my recent book sales, I have changed the lives of literally dozens of people across the world.

Ramble aside, I’ve created a few more AdequateLife guides. One on memory, one on basic field medicine, how to throw a party, and how to write real good-like. Assuming the sleep cycle of Child #2 is consistent with prior experience, I have no idea if I’ll be outputting soon, but all signs point to maybe.

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Applied Insight

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Even if we’re thick-headed and stubborn, we can’t help learning from our environment.

After a certain point, we require a creative output of all this pent-up sentiment.

With high-functioning ASD, that sentiment is harder to put into words. I usually end up writing something, then reversing all the paragraphs to make the audience understand my logic.

I once heard another hacker say that narrativizing our past is a bad habit, but the essence of journaling is to narrativize the past, so I’m not sure if that’s good advice.

Depending how you count them, I’ve lived a full life so far across the last 14 years:

Our symbolic way of thinking means that we attribute more value to reality’s events than we really ought to. That essence of ours, while not rightly handling facts, makes really good stories.

Therefore, this is my attempt to tell you a story. Like every other project manager, the story won’t be that interesting unless I add lots of graphs and slides. Since that takes more work than I can currently afford to spend, I’ll just make this a status update.

I’ll update this project as it unfolds on my /now page, but here’s the rundown:

  1. Gathering 10 years’ worth of notes into a cohesive structure to explain all reality. It’ll eventually output at GainedInSite. It’s all I’m doing these days.
  2. Going through a few hundred saved essays from other people to elaborate any elements I’ve missed in my personal discoveries.
  3. Digging through the uncreated AdequateLife guides and pulling out the philosophical components to put them on the essays.
  4. Sort through the wall of links I’ve been building for essays I haven’t written yet, then determining which essays to write based on those links.
  5. Forming the outlines into proper essays on GainedInSite and AdequateLife. At this point, the public will finally see results.
  6. After compiling the essays, convert them into book format. I have at least 3 books in mind using the same content.
  7. Use my Philosominute podcast to create dialogue on current events. This will be ongoing.
  8. Move over to finally claiming my career in computers by building another website that educates and simplifies technology.

As you can tell, I’ve got an ambitious project ahead of me. My family’s taken care of with my day job, so I’m not going to bother with fanciful career aspirations. I don’t expect to make much money off all this, but this has more meaning to me than money.

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More Concepts Unveiled

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Find something you love and you’ll never work a day in your life. Because that job’s not hiring.

In all seriousness, the secret to a happy career consists of a three-stage process:

  1. Know what you like.
  2. Know what everyone else needs.
  3. Do something that mixes 1 and 2.

My life has recently been an emotional rollercoaster recently. Most of it comes from the kind of career realizations that are better discovered sooner. In the mix, though, I’ve been building irrespective of my career difficulties.

I made a guide on AdequateLife on how to be creative. I’ve also unpacked the universal characteristics of PTSD and offense, how we interpret and use power, and how we form symbols. Finally, I’ve elaborated on the scientific method versus the scientific community.

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