The Multiverse School

6/1/2025 Multiverse Report

Being well known on the internet—even slightly, even as small as my following is—is a robust experience. It’s robust like a mountain. There’s a viewpoint you have that not everyone has. And with that comes a lot of actionable information. But it’s also solid, right? Beneath my feet. It’s very grounding. It’s not the place where the earth shakes apart—it’s where the earth comes together, if anything. So it’s a very grounding experience that I think a lot of people don’t get to experience. I’m very grateful for that.

But with that robustness comes this sense of finality, right? Like I have to keep going, doing the same thing. It makes it easy to obligate myself. Because, you know, there’s all these people. It’s like I have 200,000 accountability buddies. I’m terrified to disappoint anyone—by being tired, or slowing down, or taking a break.

I’ve been at this a while. I didn’t get to have this many followers in this short of a time period on these platforms for no reason, or overnight. It’s something that happened over many years. And it creates this… I have a great deal of love for everyone. But love can create a sense of obligation. Because I say I want to do a thing, and everyone’s like, “Yeah!” And I can’t do everything.

So I try to hand stuff off. Sometimes, as a group, there are just so many people with the same need that it seems like a waste not to get them together and collectivize that need. That’s largely what I’ve been about at the Multiverse School—trying to put the right people together at the right time. That’s the unique position I’m afforded by my reach. And I think that’s a noble pursuit—something I can contribute in a really unique way because of my background in a lot of these environments.

But here’s the thing: in order to actually do creative stuff, you have to have the room to explore, try things, fuck up, and try again. That’s a lot of why I preach the practice of rest and downtime—and time to execute, really. When you want to do stuff, you’ve got to be less social.

That’s partly why I had to pause the job search stand-up, and a lot of things this summer. I need to do some more research. Keep ahead of the field. Dig into the things I need to actually dig into to execute on the whole robot arms journey. My ability to actually do those things depends on me having some free time.

So I took some corporate classes so I can run fewer concurrent classes. I think y’all have seen me—when I try to run three at the same time, I get pretty tired. And in order to provide really good quality education, I need to just run fewer cohorts at a time. And be rerunning classes fewer times. Have more weeknights available to myself. Have more daytimes available so I can do the research I need to do.

A lot of the reason I’m able to keep up with stuff is because I do this regularly. I just say, “Okay, I’m done with this for a while.”

I haven’t been doing newsletters frequently, but rest assured: I’m still okay. I appreciate those of you who checked in with me and made sure I was okay. I hoped that by posting regular, up-to-date videos, it would be a good proof of life when I just couldn’t do the newsletter anymore. It’s been a consistent part of my life on Sundays, but let me tell you—it gives me the Sunday scaries something fierce.

So honestly, I think I’m going to follow my own advice. You know when the best day to send an email is? It’s Tuesday. Or Wednesday. So I think newsletters will return, but they’ll be a Tuesday or Wednesday phenomenon—not every single week. A lot of cool stuff happened at the beginning of this year. A lot of things got kicked off. I really just need time to execute on those things, and less time spent convincing people that we have ignition on a critical series of issues that are research priorities here at the Multiverse School.

If you want to join us this summer, you just need to have your proposal 100% firm by the middle of June.

A lot of people were wanting to help with the Meshtastic review, and I think maybe we’ll do some hot scheduled livestreams this summer as a security group. If you want to be in on that security working group, I will announce it.

We’ll get online and dig deep into the code. Those will be fun things I’ll do with not too much notice—just drop in if you have a good brain, rather than creating obligations.

I'll see ya a lot this summer, but I need to take some time off from the daily thing, so I can do some deeper execution on my own initiatives.

By the way, folks have asked for guides on cybersecurity more times than I can remember. I've been working on them, based on a number of case studies I've been collecting. I'd love your feedback on them, before I make each one more public.

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