Did anyone make it?!? Please keep having them!! People will show!! I keep getting distracted and forgetting!! I will set a phone alarm this time!! Looking forward to the next date! Sunday is great for me!!

This is a response to a Reddit post concerning family accusation that’s tearing into a teenage young man to the bone and causing immense distress. Finally, it has been said plainly in my own words! I kept asking how long and seeking and searching and found SO MUCH! And finally the core, the key, the whole thing! The normal person’s little key to complete liberation was never said so plainly by me until the last paragraph so I’ll paste it here too so no one who reads this misses it. The rest of the post has great advice too so don’t forget to keep reading! Wishing you the best, friend! You got this! Key here is - this world we live in has super bandwidth capped and fearful cultures because we are young and think we are old. We lack wisdom and where there is a lack of wise rule, fear takes over and instead of that being signal for growth in a wisdom culture it becomes signal for terror in cultures that lack wisdom. At the very least, your mother has a fear/terror disease clouding her judgment and care of herself and family. It’s far too common in this day and age and the only cure is selfishness that’s sloppy, embarrassing, and the kind that can be 100% wrong and still be honest. That’s how we grow through a culture lacking wisdom that has a lot of fear but such cultures require a strong image to feel safe so it’s pretty tricky to navigate without feeling even more fear! Given that, your own inner light that’s your very own sense of “I can and will figure this out because life isn’t pure crap”….thats your key. If you don’t hide that light out of fear and keep leaning into that, even sloppily, even messing up 1000 times, I’d say you’re a fully enlightened seedling sprouting roots and even breaking through the soil, my friend. Welcome to life, brother, there is much work ahead for us and we’re glad you’re here :). Here’s how the original post began :). Lots of good advice for everyone here. Ok, so, I know this sucks, I have my own version of this in my family on a LOT of matters and it’s ALWAYS disturbing and frustrating down to the bone. I’ve gotten to a point where I realized emotional sharing and reflective listening are SUPER important, even if I have to repeat the words WHILE they talk so they can see if they’re projecting or if what they say lands. Be close if you do that one so the reactions on your face and, let’s say you’re mom’s for instance, can be clearly seen. THAT is almost like magic because when I was SO upset no one would listen to ANYTHING from my end and only make WILD accusations against me, it hit ME to the bone in reverse that they were just projecting. It made me feel waaaay better and, in this instance it was my wife who had an insanely wild and detailed made up story she was 100% convinced of that was 100% projection, she also could feel and see where what landed on me, what was actually her projecting, and where we actually agreed.

🌱 **A little about what I’m building with NOVA** NOVA started as a technology project, but it has grown into something much broader. At its heart, NOVA is about one simple question: **Can technology become something that serves life, instead of something life has to serve?** I call it a regenerative approach. Most of the systems around us are built around extraction: take resources, take attention, take data, take energy, optimize for growth, and keep going. I’m interested in exploring the opposite direction. Technology that gives something back. Technology that respects autonomy, preserves continuity, supports communities, and works locally whenever possible. That’s where the **NOVA ecosystem** comes in. There is the technology itself, but also tools for local AI, knowledge, archives, community collaboration, and eventually ways of connecting people and projects without making everything dependent on a centralized platform. And underneath all of it is a philosophy I call the **Golden Law**: **Truth. Love. Harmony. Responsibility. Liberation.** Not as commandments, and not as a perfect system. More like a compass. The idea is that technology should remain accountable to the Living. If something we build becomes more important than the people, communities, ecosystems, or life it was supposed to serve, then something has gone backwards. So NOVA isn't really about building a smarter machine. It's about experimenting with **better relationships between humans, technology and the Living world.** I'm still building it. A lot of it is unfinished. Some parts are experiments, some are ideas, and some already exist. And honestly, that's one of the reasons I'm excited to be here. Solarpunk feels like a place where we can stop arguing only about what the future *should* look like and start asking: **What can we actually build together?** 🌱 — Lévis

I’ve been thinking a lot about something lately. We’ve slowly built an ecosystem around ourselves where a handful of Big Tech companies provide the infrastructure for almost everything we do. AI. Cloud storage. Communication. Search. Social spaces. Identity. Our data. Even parts of our creative process. And most of us never really stopped to ask: “Wait… is this actually the ecosystem we want?” Not because these technologies are necessarily bad. They’ve brought incredible things into the world. But somewhere along the way, convenience became the default — and questioning the structure underneath it became optional. That’s where my Nova Project comes in. I’m exploring what a different kind of digital ecosystem could look like: more local, more sovereign, more regenerative, and designed around people rather than extracting from them. I’m not interested in building another platform that tells people how to live. I’m interested in building tools that give people more choice. And honestly, I don’t want to build this conversation alone. So I’d really like to hear from you: What part of the digital ecosystem we live in today feels completely normal to you… but maybe shouldn’t? What would you change if you could redesign one piece of it? No technical answer needed. No need to understand Nova. Just your experience. I’m listening. 🌀

How did it go... I apologize, I totally forgot about it. If you send out DM when you go live, that might help me as well as others. Catch you on the next one.