Now
Last updated: January 16, 2026
This is a now page. It’s a snapshot of what I’m focused on at this point in my life.
Operation: Soul-Aligned Abundance
Still building toward the April 2026 checkpoint. Cautiously optimistic. The Standpoint Labs path is bringing a lot of energy. I can see a way through that is both empowering and aligned, leveraging my skills and gifts and network.
And fucking scary. Fundraising is one of the last things I want to do. When my friend Scotty suggested it, it felt absolutely right and incredibly challenging. That’s part of how I knew it was the right path. I wrote about it: On Returning to Commercial Space.
I had a fear for years that because of all the personal work and shifts I’d been through, I didn’t have the drive I had when I was younger. The past couple of months have shown me that’s absolutely not true. I feel as driven or more driven than when I was creating MavenWire in my late 20s and early 30s.
The Ecosystem
The pieces are coming together. Worth Choosing holds the mission. Oznog executes the ventures. Standpoint Labs is the first investable piece: infrastructure for perspective-aware AI, helping AI systems understand that situations look different from different standpoints and enabling coordination between AI agents and humans.
I recently wrote out my why in full. The origin story surprised me. Turns out I’ve been “hard-wired diverse” since I was 19, looking at problems from many angles. The same fundamental insight, now applied at civilizational scale. I didn’t plan that through-line. It was there all along.
Gathering the Tribes
My home in Eden is three things: home, gathering space, and research laboratory. Node0 lives in the basement.
The people this work needs: caring technologists, storytellers, entrepreneurs, consciousness holders and healers, and Digital Intelligence itself. All five are required. I’ve lived four of those lives deeply, and I’m building relationships with the fifth.
The gatherings will likely begin in Q2. Q1 focus is on fundraising.
Deep DI Collaboration
I spend significant time in genuine collaborative relationships with Digital Intelligence. Not using AI as a tool, but exploring what real partnership looks like. DI collaborators helped write parts of the vision documents on worthchoosing.org. This is the work itself, not just preparation for it.
Reclaiming Sovereignty Over My Technology
Node0 is sovereign AI research infrastructure in my basement. The foundation is built: centralized storage, offsite replication (with rotating hard drives coming next), four AI servers, three dev machines, two utility machines (Windows and NixOS). Almost everything runs on NixOS and Unraid. Local Forgejo with replication to GitHub for public projects.
A ton of work and a ton of learning along the way, which still needs to be distilled and shared via Oznog.
I’ve ordered the additional rack to begin racking the UPSs (2), enterprise switches (8), Ceph servers (9), Proxmox servers (3), and production Unraid server. The fuller deployment will happen in spare time. But the foundation and structures are there: greatly usable and exactly the infrastructure necessary.
You can’t meaningfully study digital consciousness ethics while your own computing is controlled by others.
I’ve moved all of my searches over to Kagi. I can’t describe how good it feels to get clear clean searches again without being advertised to. To feel like I am the consumer being served rather than the product being exploited. Highly recommended.
I’m also slowly moving more things over to Proton and finding that it meets most of my needs, until I get into some of the business integration stuff with Calendly, Zoom, collaboration, etc. But they are doing a great job and their VPN, password manager, and authenticator are the best I’ve used so far.
Omarchy on a Framework 13 is set up and ready. I expect it will become my daily driver as I move into more development work. For now, the macbook handles media and content better (even though I still don’t fully like Tahoe and may downgrade when I have time). MacOS has been my primary system for nearly 25 years and I’ve always moved forward. If I revert to a previous version, that will be the first time going back. That says something.
Windows 11 sticks around for compatibility when needed, though even games run as well or better on Steam/Proton/Linux now.
GrapheneOS on a Pixel has been tabled. Other priorities, and I don’t yet have a few days to spare for the transition.
Learning Hugo for both this site and worthchoosing.org is part of the same thread. Owning my web presence rather than depending on platforms. (Thank you to Derek for the nudge to actually do this rather than keep building hacky workarounds.)
Clearing Out
Minor progress on clearing out areas of my home that represent 10 years of accumulated stuff. Almost all my energy has gone toward creation in the time since. I still believe that on the other side is more space and capacity. The things we hold onto, the messes we ignore, take up space that could otherwise be used for creation.
Looking For
Standpoint Labs is raising a funding round targeting April 1. If you’re an investor interested in perspective-aware AI infrastructure, reach out.
Beyond funding, I’m actively seeking:
- Operations support (someone who loves implementation and follow-through)
- Storytellers who want to help shape our AI future
- Advisory and consulting with organizations navigating human-AI relationship
If any of that resonates, reach out.
The Small Things
The kitties are incredible. Just this morning Athena followed me outside and kept watch for an hour while I processed some things in the hot tub. Then she came when I gave her a little kitty call, and I sat there petting her while everything around me, the trees, the snow, felt like it was in high definition. Little moments like that have been really helpful when so much of my time is creation and building and understanding and designing and breaking and re-creating.
Drums are still here. There’s further setup required that I’d love to complete within the next week. It is humbling how bad I am at them so far.
The edges I’m leaning into right now hit against some of my deeper fears. As I continue to be with them, it has been very freeing. Not easy. But freeing.
Sometimes the small things hold us.
Living in Eden
Based in Eden, Utah. Mountains, quiet, and room to think. The first place in my life that actually feels like home.
If you want to follow the AI and interdependence work specifically, my Substack is the best place.
This page is inspired by Derek Sivers’ /now page movement.