I am a drafting technician with two decades of hands-on technical experience, but that professional identity is really just one layer. Underneath I am someone who thinks like an analyst....
If I had a trillion dollars, I wouldn’t try to “fix the whole world.” I’d build something small, sane, and human‑scale — a community designed for honesty, peace, and real connection....
Self-reliance isn’t about being alone. It’s about not waiting for permission.
I’ve learned to forage my own food, dig my own bait, grow things, fix things, figure things out — not because I had to, but because depending on yourself builds a kind of quiet confidence that nobody...