hire me to diagnose or fix your: - cars & trucks (incl heavy trucks) - motorcycles (even super old ones) - metalworking machinery i care about fixing things well, and about avoiding waste. i'll make as little waste as i can, reusing as many existing parts/materials as possible.

this is my achilles heel

for the uninitiated, kilian jornet is the gnarliest mountain runner/mountaineer ever, by far https://t.co/Cd8xn7S8PQ

i was just cranking down a trail and some guy yelled after me in a thick french accent, "you're going fast, kilian jornet!" day: made

initial youtube comments have been almost bafflingly friendly

i’m having the funniest gf meeting parents situation ever: a week long vacation with the 4 of us in albania just a casual 1 week in constant contact for the first try

i feel very lucky for having stumbled into this :) (usual privilege disclaimers, ymmv, etc applies)

money feels like it will just show up if we need it. and the more we believe these things, the truer they become. we both have made some pretty wild-ass ideas work out, and now everyone else we know believes we can just Figure Things Out, which further perpetuates this dynamic

he saw the potential in the vision i had, where other people just saw a filthy, destroyed warehouse, and his belief nourished mine now i think we both truly believe we can do anything if we want it badly enough, and have gotten to the point where

the positive feedback loop also just means that anytime one of us brings up a crazy idea we wanna pursue, the other person always just assumes it’s possible and starts helping/brainstorming/etc. this is part of how my community space in nyc came to be

than i ever did i make almost nothing now, but i’m glad i made a lot for a little while just to know whether or not i care about being wealthy for its own sake without spending half my life on it first

we’d help each other write pitches, think about how to handle problems, etc, and were (and still are) completely transparent with each other about our finances and celebrate each other’s wins i made a lot of money (for someone in their early 20s) first, and now he makes way more

this dynamic rhymes with the expression “luck favors the prepared,” which my dad says often and is deeply imprinted on my psyche once i got enough confidence, i became able to help him, too — i got a hold of the business strategy stuff a bit faster and

he’s really good at convincing ppl that there’s no reason they can’t achieve their wildest dreams, and he did that for me…and it’s a self-perpetuating cycle if you think you can achieve your wildest dreams, you try harder, and every little win feels like evidence that it’s true

a convo w @vek and michael (where are you) @ casa tilo made me reflect on how i got into a positive feedback loop around money and success (defined as “doing the things i care about”) with my best friend when we were in our late teens, and how profoundly that has impacted my life

i seem to be able to smile my way into bringing any size bag on a plane…hasn’t failed in like 2 years

whoa and someone commented on another video i made recently, what a trip

made my first lil fixing-stuff-related video on youtube! i’m starting by just scavenging old phone clips that i put on instagram cus it feels lower pressure than long videos i made with my real camera https://t.co/54bEj2YJwT

ok maybe the way i can reframe this as a win is that i didn’t run myself into the ground trying to get something done in time for a self-imposed deadline instead of hanging out with the other ppl here, which is a move i’ve been trying to do more

i think my baseline now is much closer to what my peak feeling was then, but still, it was pretty cool to just feel consistently awesome for so long it would be cool to get there again little afraid of the potential comedown tho

i spent like 6 weeks in something close to a flow state in 2021 and it absolutely fucking rocked haven't had anything even close happen since, i wonder what was going on there...my social anxiety decreased by like 90% in that period too, what a trip that was