#51: 1 Year of Recalibrating 🧭 🧠 ✨

Beginning Again, Non-linearly ⚛🌱🌳🍒

Today marks 1 year since I quit my job as an IP lawyer/patent agent 🎉✨

I feel mentally/physically better & more fulfilled than I have in the last 5 years, in large part because of my Recalibrating experiment.

I started Recalibrating to assess what it means to be a self-actualized human in modern society, while Preserving Value in an AI World.

I'm proud to have worked on Recalibrating every week for the last year, publishing 50 long-form articles; 134,000 words (that's 2+ book's worth 🤯)

Now, one year in, I'm ready to start my next phase of recalibration: reviewing the topics I wrote about over the last year & diving more deeply into what truly resonates with me still.

I've learned that chronological writing can only go so far when it comes to deep understanding. To truly go deeper, I need to journey into the non-linear realm of networked thinking ⚛🌱🌳🍒

This note marks the beginning of that journey on Flowcast 🌊

🔗 Flowcast Genesis

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Non-Linear Building & The Future Of Recalibrating

The above note is written onto blockchain (onchain) using Flowcast. It’s cool to me that I can create a permanent record of a journal entry like 1 Year of Recalibrating and link that journal entry to other thoughts I’ve been having lately (as you can see in the knowledge graph image above).

Recalibrating has been an incredible experiment that has lasted 365 days (so far 👀) and I am incredibly excited to keep building.

That said, my entries have often been quite long, so I am looking forward to taking some time to expand on ideas I have just barely scratched the surface of. I want to keep expanding on the knowledge graph (the image above) to continuously make connections between new thoughts and old ones.

To be honest, I have no idea what this format will end up looking like. I will continue writing blog-style posts when I feel like it, publishing to your email address (either through Substack or Paragraph). I will also put a lot more energy into building my onchain brain, my digital garden, via Flowcast.

The goal of a digital garden is to assist with building in public, in a non-linear, non-chronological way. Interconnected blockchain is an interesting way to do this (on Flowcast) because blockchain is inherently linear, while connecting the dots between thoughts (bi-directional linking) is not. Another benefit is that the published entries tend to be shorter and more digestible, which can be really helpful for complicated topics like blockchain, AI, and quantum.

If you’ve never heard of a digital garden before, Maggie Appleton has an incredible overview. In particular, I think this image does an excellent job classifying non-linear building in public:

Chaos Streams vs Cultivated Performance - Maggie Appleton

Recalibrating Podcast

I am also working on updating every one of my Recalibrating entries to have a voice over by way of the Recalibrating Podcast.

If you prefer to listen to these entries rather than read them, stay tuned, as I will continue updating the entries week by week.

I published the #4: Beginning With Breath today and already had excellent feedback on how much people like listening to the Recalibrating podcast 😊

Thank You 🫡

I want to say thank you to everyone who has joined me on my Recalibrating journey 😊 Your support means far more than you know!

I can't believe it's been a full year since I began the Recalibrating Experiment. Time is a strange feeling, especially when you completely remove all structure and habit from your life.

I hope that my journey has helped each of you in some way, however small, and I very much look forward to continuing to build and educate in public ✨

Next Week

I want to spend some more time reflecting on the last year and will probably do some type of overview of the year. Reflecting boosts self-awareness, and I have a lot of reflecting to do.

The last few weeks have been incredibly hectic with Collision and launching the MVP of Flowcast, so I'm happy to briefly reflect today and share this milestone with you without going too much deeper.

Remember, the goal of Recalibrating is to build a sustainable creation system, which means being mindful of where I'm at each day.

Stay tuned ✨

PS, I also just released my latest NFT to my Hypersub collectors on Zora. You can view the full resolution version of the animation here.

This animation is a breathing guide to reduce anxiety and increase mindfulness 😌✨