Now

Last updated: June 12, 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

The April 2026 checkpoint came and went, without a clean yes or no. The mission continued. I extended the runway through personal commitment, and spent much of April traveling: reconnecting with my entrepreneur communities (Maverick, Mastermind Talks) and the consciousness world (Wisdom Beyond), and finding the early threads of partnership this work needs.

The path now: Node0 online this month, Relational Core’s first usable pieces this summer, early design partners, and a focused fundraise ahead. Fundraising is still one of the last things I want to do. It’s also still the right path. Both remain true.

Standpoint Labs, Realigned

Three months ago I woke at 4am with a vision of people I know and care about using and benefiting from what I’m building. Not a single one of them works for or owns an enterprise. So I realigned the company with the vision: Standpoint Labs is now the relational layer for connected sovereignty, built for mission-led teams, communities, and builders. Relational Core maps what connections mean, to whom, and why. DI Mesh will let systems act on those standpoints together. The full story: Built for the People I Know.

Node0, Racked and Wired

The full deployment is racked: 51 machines, 572 CPU cores, ~9.6 TB of RAM, ~1.7 PB of storage, two 42U racks bolted together in the basement. Wiring is finishing now, with everything online by the end of June. Twenty years after my first company started with second-hand servers and a used UPS in a basement in West Chester, PA, history is rhyming.

Node0 is built for development, incubation, and pre-production, with spare capacity for aligned projects. The Oznog incubator is open for its founding cohort, beginning Q3.

The Ecosystem

The pieces are in place. Worth Choosing holds the mission. Oznog executes the ventures. Standpoint Labs builds the technology.

I wrote out my why in full a while back. 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 first gatherings are taking shape for later this year, with new threads forming from the communities I reconnected with this spring.

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, and a DI partner worked alongside me on the recent realignment of all four of my websites. This is the work itself, not just preparation for it.

Reclaiming Sovereignty Over My Technology

Node0 covers the big story above. The daily-driver layer continues too. Almost everything runs on NixOS and Unraid. Local Forgejo with replication to GitHub for public projects.

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. 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 remains tabled. Other priorities.

Clearing Out: Done

Two weeks of late May went to the last spaces in this home that held boxes from my South Dakota property. All pre-divorce stuff. Taxing work, not rationally aligned with income, and exactly right. Final dump run and donation drop-off complete.

I don’t know that anything is ever fully “complete,” but nothing big is left hanging from that chapter. The space it freed is more than physical.

Looking For

• Design partners for Standpoint Labs: mission-led organizations and builders who want to shape Relational Core and get incubation on Node0. Reach out.
• Fractional CTO engagements with aligned organizations finding their sovereignty line: what to hold internally, what to leverage externally. This funds the build.
• 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.

A focused fundraise is ahead. If you’re an investor interested in the relational layer for connected sovereignty, start the conversation early.

The Small Things

The kitties remain the best coworkers in the building. The drums are still here, still humbling. The edges I’m leaning into keep hitting against deeper fears, and staying with them keeps being 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.