× Built with care A craftsman lived by a narrow bridge. Every time he built a better tool, figures appeared at dusk and praised his generosity. “This could help many,” they said. “Why keep it behind a door?” At first he argued. Then he explained. Then he felt guilty. And while he was explaining, his table stayed empty, his roof leaked, and the tools that should have fed him lay half-finished in other people’s hands. One morning he noticed the real pattern: they never asked first about the tool he had actually offered for sale. They drifted straight toward the workbench, the molds, the jigs, the hidden templates. Every time they came, they seemed wealthier, more ethical and hungrier. That day he painted four words above the bench: Offer. Method. Gift. Keep. Before speaking, he would place each thing into one of the four. If guilt rose in his chest, he treated it as weather, not law. He would exhale once, then turn back to the next paid, shippable step.
The emphasis is intentionally minimal and aims for low costs to the value-creation process, increasing value-utility.
Low overhead Utility over complexity Reuse where possible Taking higher guidance Mobility and independence
The work on offer here focuses on assisting lives through transitions. The individual defines the legitimate transition they need to make. When working with businesses, I cater to those that would similarly assist through these transitions. Throughout my own journey, I was assisted in making personal changes by businesses, paying most. Once I walked a very long distance. I had no money, yet businesses would kindly offer me meals; except a single day when I got lost, I did not go hungry.
Learning: (Smaller) independent businesses The work has also been shaped through smaller independent learning structures, practical application, and self-directed skill growth across facilitation, communication, sales, production, and economic judgment.
The base format for pages and written output. Its simple, durable and does what’s needed.
Writing software: Typora I’m running business, wanted an editor I paid for, that’d be lightweight and work on markdown.
Site and server: Hetzner + Debian + Caddy + Hugo Provides a stable base for the livelihood endeavor; simple, fast and low-cost to operate. Caddy and Hugo was largely based on running on the markdown format. Hetzner by recommendation, at a low cost and relatively local.
Here’s a €20 code for Hetzner
Assisted production: ChatGPT / Codex Used as a support tool in parts of the production process such as coding, drafting, iteration and effect-barrier. Github assisted in connecting code local development, production-servers and assisted development.
Video production: Kdenlive + OBS Studio Used for recording and editing video: Capable enough, while maintaining the Wesleyan financial approach. Pixabay would act intermediary for such as soundtracks, as I figured better make use of the work already done, even could I ask AI to generate what I needed.
Scheduling: Cal.com Used for booking and scheduling, seemed friendly on the developers yet with a niche-aligned userbase.
Here’s a 20% discount
The enterprise now called X would only require text-message infrastructure to continue functioning. I always liked Google and wanted to test out creating videos.
Co-working spaces: Regus and Others Facilitated a structured environment that improved focus and continuity. Clean separation.
Work-environment: Debian Linux Stable production-environment without the excess - only the tools I need.
Payment Processor: SumUp payments For taking payments, carefully selected - seemed to provide the cleanest payment-infrastructure.
Buying products through any of the links, will yield some kind of small return to me.
