Always wondered why I don't go on living like the folks at 100r.co. Not necessarily in a boat across the ocean, but at least writing software for fun and learning as days pass. What a contrast if we talk about writing software so that the c-level executives can get richer and richer while you have to work for decades to pay a middle size house (if not an apartment). Not to mention the on-call rotation that eats your free time, the countless stupid tech interviews you need to pass and the amount of self control one has to have in every useless daily standup.

I'm not surprised because of their presence in the community, but I am glad to see Permacomputing mentioned. https://permacomputing.net/

My aspirational heroes! There's so many people underserved by our current level of technology, and for no good reason other than what I imagine is "business sense"? What are we doing with all this tech if it can't reach so many? Did we really advance as a species? I lose so much of current tech if I take a walk in the woods, it's ridiculous.

Even just keeping their views in mind as I'm learning and experimenting, I'm noticing there's so much cloud-dependence without good reason, beyond "convience"? Really glad to have discovered their work early in my career, it's been nothing but quality learning!

I don't want to be bound to the "modern world" and its city centers. I want to see the rest of it too, to stray from the fire of a broadcast tower without being left in the cold. I have a torch, I just need to light it.