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
Fewer moving parts, fewer costs, less drag on output.
Utility over complexity
Only keeping components that clearly help the work get made.
Reuse where possible
Including recycled hardware and simple infrastructure choices.
Taking higher guidance
In the skill at working with material energy, achieving progress rather than perfection and accountable to God.
Mobility and independence
Building up freedom, growing independence and that beyond borders.
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.
Training
Certifications via Mindvalley
Sales and marketing (Straight Line methodology, cold-calling for Anima, internship at IDG direct and 2-3 months membership of TRW)
Risk-management and Trading via the markets, ChatGPT, two books etc..
Life-long self-development and intense personal changes.
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.
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.
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.