Path & Principle

@de_la_boue Do it, highly recommend!!

@offgridding A pond is a miniature living world, a microcosmos. Fascinating and beneficial. Been thinking of doing this myself someday. Thanks for posting. (Meanwhile composting has its thrills. :)

I know I’ll never be a social media expert. I’m an engineer, after all. While I’m here, I’ll share an uncommon perspective. I’m not just drawn out of the studio, every day, to the land here, but to projects most tech people would find primitive. I read once that Seymour Cray would dig tunnels for hours in the sandstone around his property in Chippewa Falls. For me, when I am not in the woods, I’m often working on ponds. This one has been years in the making, and I am not even close to done improving it. I realize not many people will get this, and I am okay with that. I’ll be out by the pond planning this year’s projects and checking to make sure the fish made it through the winter. It’s a place for wildlife, rain catchment, top-quality irrigation, mosquito control, a skating rink, and simply a beautiful place to be around. What is completely outside your normal work/business that you love to keep up on?

@alinainmiami that is a nice way to look at it!

Who doesn’t want to listen to Orbital through BigSky and a Studer? Fidelia 2 hosts plugins right inside the player — for when your music library deserves a unique signal chain. 3 AU slots. Built-in DSP. No subscription. No data collected. #MacAudio #Audiophile #AUv3

@offgridalchemy I have been gone too long! cool new name.

@offgridding I get it. Same. I like to be working on projects outside

As it is said in Colossians 3:23, "Whatever you do, do from the heart, as for the Lord and not for others"... I know my efforts to create a body of water to emulate God's creation will be noticed less and less the wilder it gets.

Fidelia is in the best place it has ever been. Stability is excellent. The feature set is deep. And for the kind of listener it was built for, we sincerely believe it’s the best music player app available. #Fidelia #Audiophile #MusicTech

Fidelia 2.0 is live. Complete rebuild under the hood. Mastering-grade DSP built in — headphone crossfeed, psychoacoustic dither, reference SRC. No plugins. No subscription. Familiar face.

The music industry looks like some locked fortress from the outside. Opaque. Gated. Hollywood-level nonsense. But once you're actually in it, especially on the tech side, you realize that's total nonsense. It's not just the two giant players or private equity swallowing every cool old brand. It's hundreds of scrappy 1-10 person outfits grinding away. Building a weird new instrument, a core plugin engine, a suite of tools that actually matter. Pushing the needle forward and keeping some real creative soul alive. That keeps this whole thing breathing. And yeah, it matters a ton to people like me. @weareaudiofile is just one of those small crews. A bunch of our direct "competitors" are legit friends. Without all these little players, music tech wouldn't exist. Or if it did, it'd be soulless corporate sludge. If you're in this world (sound designers, plugin makers, tool builders, synth hackers), you already feel it. Let's not let it turn into just another consolidated, algorithm-driven void. Support the indies who still give a damn: buy their stuff, share their work, shout them out, collaborate when it makes sense. The soul of music tech depends on it. What's one small music tech thing you're using right now that actually changed how you create? Drop it below. I want to check it out. (And yeah, that's me on the beach a few minutes ago. No filter, no corporate headshot. Just keeping it real.) #MusicTech #AudioEngineering #IndieDev

@jhsheridan not to be vague, but getting things off the ground I've been thinking about for way too long. Also I'll be in a much better position to help people run the same gauntlet... How are things there?

@offgridding What's the plan?

$8.11 in my personal checking account. Never been more focused. There's something clarifying about betting on yourself. You find out what's real fast. Building anyway. Watch this space. #offgrid #sovereignbuilder

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This Is the Minnesota I Know. It's not a talking point. It's not a political football. That Minnesota is still here. It's just not loud enough to make the news.

@lizcollin Whistles?

Ladies and gentlemen, meet Minnesota’s chief elections administrator, Steve Simon.

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Thousands of federal officers in the Twin Cities. Protests that don't look spontaneous. Tactics that spike stress and aggression. Someone benefits from this chaos. And it's not the people in the streets. #MinnesotaProtests #OperationMetroSurge #TwinCities

@NorthHugr Thanks again for checking it out. It's just something I had to get off of my chest, somehow, whether anyone sees it or not.

@offgridding Hey friend, wow this is a powerful, beautiful, and tragic video. This hits home.

Everyone's yelling about Minnesota. I grew up there. I still live there. Here's what no one's willing to say. youtu.be/0uw-waXdOO4 #Minnesota #Minneapolis

@SahilBloom We are thinking this way too, and the timing is good for me. 25 years in tech product development, always have been agile, yes, this is where it's at now. I'd consider partners if anyone is serious and looking, and I am happy to help anyone needing the concierge imminently.

There's an opportunity right now to build a $100k per month side hustle as an AI Concierge. And you don't even have to be *that* technical to do it. Just high agency. There are probably millions of people out there who see all of the latest AI innovations like Claude Cowork, want to take advantage of them, but have no idea how to actually do that. I know, because I'm one of those people... I had dinner last night with the CEO of a multi-billion dollar tech startup. He was telling me about the full digital assistant/employee he just hacked together over the weekend. All of the things it's doing, how it's been an unlock for his workflows and life. I told him I'd gladly pay him $5000 to come to my house and spend the day building me one using the same approach. He laughed that he'd happily do that (though obviously won't given his day job). There's a real, high cash flow opportunity for a hustler to launch a services business as an AI Concierge for the tech curious. Ideally they would physically show up and build out a tool (or suite) to help an individual leverage the latest for their business and life. I bet you could charge $5-10k for the initial upfront work and then some low ongoing service fee to keep the thing up to date (if the person wants that and needs help with it). 5-10 clients per month and you have a meaningful cash flow engine. All comes down to the quality of what you deliver long term, but my guess is people would see a Month 1 positive ROI on the investment and referrals to their friends would drive the entire business. Just a thought...