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That is a wild fucking story.
Hopefully I’ll be able to pass my little farm to someone willing to keep my vision for it going. Idk if I’ll have kids but that would be a pretty good avenue if they want. If not maybe sell it to someone I trust when it becomes too much for me. Secondary to that, if I get to be a nuclear engineer in my state that would be pretty sick.
Don’t leave us hanging, tell us more about your vision for the place, if you don’t mind. Is it a work in progress? What’s next on your to do list for it?
As it stands now, I donate/give away about 20-30% of what I produce, sell 30% and keep the rest. That’s why it’s something I do on the side, not my main income. Food stuff ends up at a pantry I like or with friends/family. Most of the wool goes to a lady from my church who makes stuff. I’d kind of like to learn more about doing the latter myself. Realistically though, I don’t really want to dedicate the time or bandwidth to it lol. I’d like to expand my current pickeling/canning setup and expand the space I use for vegetables. It’s a balance though. I want to keep it relatively small so because I don’t want to be a full time farmer. I’d like to get better at keeping bees and keep more, it’s hard to get them through winters. I could keep going on the little things I want to do for days. As well as the things I don’t because I know they’d get away from me. I definitely don’t want to end up putting my lady in a situation where she has to help out more just because I had an idea I couldn’t keep up with. But anyway, at it’s core, my vision for it is simple. Create high quality, clean food/products and always give away enough to make an impact. Apologies for the rambling I’ve been up for like 30 hours at this point.
I saved a lot of people on the day I decided to not be a surgeon.
I’m always cracking jokes and like to make people laugh. So, that.
Still net negative, thoProbably my kids. So far, they seem to be a lot better at all of this than I ever was.
(This feels in a way very private.) For now, I’ve talked to people in psychological emergencies, offline+online. They were strangers and I don’t know how they fared after we talked, but in these moments i was there, at least making them not feel alone with their struggles and (hopefully) at most setting a spark of hope that could be the beginning of change (when I explained what helped me / sharing my related stories) and taking responsibility in their own lives.
I visited a neighbour who had a stroke and could barely move after, in a hospital. I went to them for over a month (almost) every day. I organised small things that were important to them in these times, even if they had no impact on their status. I talked to them, made them feel human, showing support for them and their progress. When saying goodbye for the day they broke out multiple times in tears for I was doing this, saying they loved me. (They had nobody else, I barely knew them before the stroke)
[I quit smoking after >10 years, in the third or fourth week of visiting them because I whittnessed (?) the system “hospital” keeping humans barely alive and my neighbour reporting how they got treated by staff and the doctors - 100% dependence (eat, sleep, the table is too far away to reach water(intentionally?), toilet, turning in bed, hygiene, the tv doesn’t work, EVERYTHING) on staff that DGAF, because evolution gave humans a mechanism to cope with being exposed to so much suffering: dampening empathy, inhibiting emotional involvement, coldness on a professional level. (They have to have professional distance, yes.) I’m not blaming or judging, these were my reasons to quit smoking when I couldn’t stop before, on my own.]
[If you want to stop doing a vice (smoking, alc?) or want to get a new perspective and you get a chance to go to a hospital to visit someone, do it. Expose yourself to the humane suffering which otherwise doesn’t really exist in your world. Seeing it makes a difference.]
Helping my neighbour for their time in this hospital was an eye-opening experience for me. Time and health is all we have. I have been very wasteful with my time.
If you are not where you want to be, changing something might be enough to break out of current patterns, even if the change is not better, setting yourself up for positive change when the opportunity arises. Neutral change might be a good first goal.
I confronted people in public when they littered or showed aggression towards weaker people.
A lot of this is associated with “civil courage”, I feel.
Thank you for this. I read all of it, and I think you are a good human.
Thank you, but I’m also only a human with flaws.
Ain’t we all
So faar? I braught a lot of people together. Helped many threw a very dark time and inspired some. What i want my legacy to be, oof that is heavily tied to my enormose ambition that i want to but how things are going i dont know if that path is the path europe is on right now for me to even being able to move into that position. But who knows…
Tossup between teaching geneticists not to use dumb statistics and a couple of minor kernel contributions along the way. Back after the first human genome everything was showing significant correlations to brain proteins, which are notably longer than somatic ones, because they were failing to normalize against length. Made a web app that did it for them, now it’s part of the standard analysis packages. Not sure how long that would have kept going without my publication, but I got us there faster, so science progressed faster.
Climate activism. Helped get the issue of coal mining and export on the local, state, and federal agenda in Australia in the late 2000s, while living next to the world’s biggest coal export port. Still doing bits, but I think that was my most effective period (working with many others, obviously).
Planted some nice shade trees that should be shading the area long after I’m dead.
Probably my minor OSS contributions. Some good memories in friends and family - I would like to think.
Whilst I’ll try to protect the environment and increase the protections and the communities in my State, all I really really care about is whether my kids will remember me fondly and know that I loved them.
I made a medical software. It’s not the only one in the niche, but I still think I made a difference.
I really focused on quality. No bugs allowed to exist for more than a week. Must be fast, efficient, convenient, pretty to look at, reliable, secure, private, anything and everything for the end user. I worked fucking hard for years. We were the premium product. Every feature made medical professional’s lives a tiny bit easier. I never said “that’s impossible”, I would rewrite half the application over two weeks if needed. Over time, it grew bigger and bigger; it’s a huge product now with thousands of features.
I like to think that I’ve indirectly helped people, by helping the people that help people. If that makes sense. It’s one of two things in my life I’m proud of.
Once, the office got sent a gift basket of chocolate and flowers from a happy customer. You don’t forget that.
