Last night I had an insight. I'm just getting to this place where I have done enough base level learning on my new venice computer, that I have a good handle on the hardware inside the box - on what to do, and not to do... on how to fix problems, and how to interpret problems.
XP is much easier than 98 - as far as uninstalling and installing software goes.
Now, I can start thinking about my career; this little obstacle has been stepped over - now I have the tool.
The thought I had was that Leonardo Da Vinci is the person who's life and work is what I need to emulate.
I have all these ideas, all these visions for changing my society... for developing new kinds of internet interactions.
And up until now, these ideas have all sat silent on the far reaches of my harddiscs...
The idea is that I use my christophervandyck.com website to lay out all these schemes visions, inventions... and make sure readers know that all these things are under creative commons licenses... Anyone can take the ideas run with them, make money.... etcetera... freely with or without contacting me.
Also, I will create tutorials available to people for free... how to write, how to do photography, how to take care of one's health, how to tutor, and raise children, how to treat people who are under social stigma, etcetera.
Now to make money, I need to use my specialized skills - writing, music, photography. Things which take years of dedication to learn.
Write children's books, and get a ten dollar profit margin off of each sale Sell photos on tshirts, mugs... etcetera - and make enough money for yourself, your kids, for employees, and for investing in helping other writers.
The idea here is that creative people - those who have ideas - oftentimes go about their pursuits backwards. They want to make a living teaching people. The idea of course, is that they themselves spent years learning these skills, and so they think they should make money with what they've worked the hardest getting.
God forbid their idea would be stolen and done by someone else. And so all these ideas never see the light of day. If you want visions to be accomplished, inventions to be made, your culture to be changed, you need to make those visions entirely public.
When a person does this, he will have exhibited himself, and other people with resources, skills, social connections, will contact him... and he will have all the opportunities his heart desires - both for changing the world, and making money. The only limiting factor will be the amount of time he has to give to one project, or the other.
He will get girlfriends, he will get friends of all natures.
I have thought much about the idea of hesitancy before fame. And I have had the ethic for many years of keeping my ideas to myself - not even sharing them with friends or family. This gives me one thing - time to further develop my skills - learn perl, learn html thoroughly, learn graphic design and digital photo manipulation thoroughly, learn my computer like the back of my hand.
And there certainly is a need to understand how people will react to you, and why, and under which circumstances. One needs to learn how social things progress on the internet. One needs to study and see how one can have control over the level of fame. There is a fame making machine up there - the centralized media... and if you don't give an interview on television or radio, you will not be famous - no matter how good you are. It's like nuclear power... there's a lot you can do with it - but it's dangerous - and you want to make sure those control rods are down a good distance into that fluid. And always be able to keep a cap on the level of output. Otherwise, things can get out of hand, quickly.
Any new environment has to be approached gingerly... because there are dangers you would be naive about.
And of course practically speaking for the past several years, I haven't had the tools I need to create a business on the internet. I haven't had enough resources to be able to do that. There are always tools, which I have needed which I haven't had in hand. So there's an impasse.
