My friend is really excited about this site and thinks that the community here might find my content and projects interesting.
I'm a home free, nomadic, green tech inventor and rewilder and most of my non music related projects focus on making life outside of civilization as comfortable and sustainable as possible. Some people think that I'm anti tech but nothing could be further from the truth. I'm a tech nerd, but only if the tech can be produced without wrecking the environment or exploiting people. That's why I focus on open source DIY stuff made from natural materials and parts gathered from civilization's waste streams.
Current projects include a solar/pedal powered off road camper trike made from bamboo, hemp cloth, and natural resin, a 9 string, all aluminum/copper/brass guitar, a few post apocalyptic vehicle builds, and hopefully soon, a meshnet enabled open source smartphone replacement. I have other projects and inventions too, from writing post apocalyptic books to prototyping graphene edged survival knives but the camper trike, guitar, and meshnet device are the ones I'd really like to focus on. I'm also interested in procuring small patches of remote land and setting them up with solar, wifi/meshnet, and water collection/filtration so nomadic people will have little home bases to rest at, hunt/gather from, and collaborate on projects with friends at.
Here's the crazy part though... I think capitalism and currency, by their very nature, are devolving humanity and empowering psychopaths. I see cryptocurrencies as a step away from the brink of destruction but definitely not as the best way for humans to exchange value and distribute resources. The rest on Nature does just fine using gift economy and I think we can too. The reason for my lack of confidence in the sustainability of man made resource distribution systems is that, after years of research, I've found that man's laws and systems are easily exploited by those that don't care about rules, which allows psycho/sociopaths to rise to the top on man made systems, where Nature's rules are unbreakable. I really think that if a large enough group of people adopt a culture that is nomadic, practices gift economy, and is minimalist, that we can survive what seems to be an imminent world economy collapse, regrow the continental food and medicine forests that western industrial civ has destroyed, and live together peacefully, in harmony with Nature.
Until then though, I see cryptocurrency as the most ethical way of using the masters tools to build an escape vessel. I've been moving all of my projects forward slowly using gift economy but I'd really like to pick up the pace because I feel like developing sustainable alternatives to civilization's systems needs to happen ASAP, before everything crashes and we're all living the movie The Road.
That said, I hope that my seemingly insane ideas, at the very least, provide enough entertainment value to make it possible to produce a tiny income that will exponentially increase the rate of progress on my projects. In day to day life, I live pretty well on less than $100/month, which is basically just car insurance and registration, so any funding I earn through this platform will go directly to the projects.
If this post is well received, the first article I'd like to post is about living off grid in an RV. I have a lot of interesting content to share and will gladly do so if this community seems interested.