Derrick

Disheveled hair. If you have long(ish) hair and you’re going out in public, at least drag a comb through it so you don’t look like a bed-head.

Yes, living well. Happy mostly. Embodying values and dreams - as much as possible since some dreams would have needed to be started years ago to be realized - like my vineyard and my orchard. Mostly it was reinventing myself every five or seven years to follow the lucre (in software development world look for the bright and shiny new thing).

I was self employed for most of the time, and I can recommend that for those who have a pretty good work ethic. Having a goal in high school was also a key factor, since it led to a useful degree. I was also doing constant internal evaluation - like the feeling where you’re going over your desired job description for a job interview - via a journal or a self help program like “The Red Bucket Strategy”. So, in answer to how did this happen question: it was pretty methodical in using the steering gear you have to make course corrections all the time.

A little saddened because I sold Bitcoin way too early. I wanted to get out, but if I had set the bar a little higher… Of course, if you had a crystal ball you could make a lot of money.

TL;DR; Three points:

• my selected communities seem to provide adequate interesting topics - there’s always one or two rabbit holes to go down
• I have a voice - commenting here is transparent and not censored as much as Reddit
• I think the average age of contributors here is greater than the sex and shit joke fixated twelve year olds on Reddit which is a good thing

Make note of your friends phone numbers, emails and addresses (not just via social media), especially the ones from earlier years, and keep track of them with regular calls, notes or visits. Forty or fifty years from now, after the cycles of graduations, weddings, babies, moves, etc. you’ll have some golden relationships.

Joplin with a WebDAV server (for me it’s Infomaniak’s kDrive) provides syncing across multiple devices and is pretty much transparent. You should just force synchronize when leaving one of the apps to be sure (kind of like the save button in most programs).

In my mind, Veilid (https://veilid.com/) is trying to solve this exact problem.

It’s only been public since the last DefCon, so it’s a little raw at the moment. That said, it is also only a framework - specific applications need to be built.

See also their Discord: https://discord.com/channels/1077244355439509565/ and GitLab: https://gitlab.com/veilid/

https://www.efk.admin.ch/en/publications/economy-and-administration/general-administration/implementation-of-key-recommendations-general-secretariat-of-the-federal-department-of-home-affairs-and-federal-statistical-office.html

Don’t Look Up - https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/dont_look_up_2021

Sort of summarizes the total shit-show that current politicians and billionaires are responsible for.