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🌱 Developer · Futurist · Musician · Writer
Empowering You to Empower Yourself
Hi, I'm Christopher 👋
Things are overwhelming. Your plate is full, your goals feel distant, and it is hard to know where to start. You are not alone in that.
I help people turn that stressful cloud into a clear, step-by-step plan that actually produces results.
Identify your priorities
We cut through the noise to find the two or three things that actually matter right now.
Build your strategy
Together we map out a step-by-step path that fits your goals, your pace, and your life.
Take real action
You leave with concrete next steps, not vague advice. A plan you can start using today.
Tell me what's weighing on you
I'll read it myself and respond personally.
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☕ What I can help with
Pick what fits your situation
Not sure where to start? That's fine. Reach out and we'll figure it out together. Or browse what's available below.
🧭 How it works
From overwhelmed to a plan
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Tell me what's on your plate
Send a message, fill out a form, or book a free call. Whatever feels easiest for you.
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We find your top priorities together
I help you identify what actually matters right now, what to tackle first, and what to set aside for later.
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You leave with a clear plan
Not vague advice. Specific, step-by-step next steps you can start using today.
Now
Right now I'm:
- building my startup Johnny Autoseed
- drafting Surviving the Singularity
- writing in public on Substack
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Startup
Hyper-local food systems
Food that grows itself, for neighborhoods that feed themselves.
Currently building
🌱 Johnny Autoseed
My startup - semi-autonomous CSA, from seed-to-supper.
johnnyautoseed.com →
🌍 Why I'm building any of this
Why am I renting survival when the robots can grow my food and build my house?
That is the question I cannot get out of my head. Everything on this page is a way to go find out the answer.
Move one
Buy land.
Move two
Put robots on it.
Move three
See if it works.
Move four
Publish everything.
Housing and food are the two bills that make a person rentable. The machines that can plant, tend, and harvest at the scale of one household already exist, and they keep getting cheaper. What nobody has done is run them long enough, in one place, to produce an honest number: what it really costs to feed a person, and how many hours of human work it really takes.
So that is what I am doing. It is a claim I am testing, not a result I am selling you, and the numbers get published either way. The disappointing ones are the useful ones, because those are the ones nobody else bothers to write down.
This is not about going off grid or opting out of anything. It is the opposite. It is about neighborhoods that can feed themselves, so a bad month is inconvenient instead of catastrophic, and so the people around you have somewhere to turn that is not a credit card.
Who is paying for this
I am. Advising work, writing, and the hardware I build pay for it. That is on purpose. It means nobody else gets to set the direction, and nobody gets to decide which results are allowed to be published.
Three ways to help, and two of them are free
Free
Argue with the question
Take it to somebody who will push back on it. If the idea is wrong, I would rather find out from you now than from a field in two years.
Tell me where it breaks →Free
Build one yourself
Every build gets written up as a free guide with the real costs and the parts that went wrong. Take one, change it, do it better than I did.
Guides at folktech.io →Funds the work
Read the whole argument
I wrote the case down with its sources so you can check the reasoning instead of taking my word for it. Buying the book is what pays for the land. That is the entire business model.
Surviving the Singularity →No pressure on any of them. The first two are worth more to me than the third, and the question is worth more than all three.
🎙️ Live · Every Tuesday · 4PM Pacific · Free
The Singularity Weekly Call
Tuesdays, 4:00–5:00 PM Pacific, on Zoom. Come think out loud with me about staying agentic as AI rewrites work, money, and how we get our needs met.
✍️ Substack
What I'm writing
Poems, drafts, and field notes from the edge of the singularity - sent straight to your inbox.
📖 New Book
Surviving the Singularity
A field guide for staying agentic as AI rewrites work, money, and how we get our needs met.
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Dispatches from the workshop
- Build notes from Johnny Autoseed. What's working, what broke, what's next.
- Notes from Surviving the Singularity. Excerpts and the thinking.
- Music and visual experiments. What I'm making in the studio.
- Half-formed ideas. Sketches, questions, thinking in public.
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I found my old Canon EOS Rebel T3 from 2011 — the very first DSLR I ever used. I slapped on a 50mm lens, fired it up, and realized it still works beautifully. So I'm getting back into an old hobby and taking things back to the basics. No heavy digital manipulation, no AI. Just visual storytelling focused on the raw surfaces and details of the world around us.
📷 Canon EOS Rebel T3
🔭 50mm lens
🚫 No filters
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