You know, Matt, I realized I’m on almost the same journey you are with Maxim — I’m preparing my son in real time. He finished college, but he tells me he’s learning more from this experience than he did in four years at Seton Hall. I brought him to Uruguay, and he’s coming back with me in January. He’s not just reading about business, he’s sitting in the room as it gets built. That’s the same philosophy you and Doug laid out in The Preparation — learn by doing, apprentice into competence. Different subject matter, same principle. That’s why I bought the book for my son — because it puts into words the path I’ve already started him on.
I am a fan of Heinlein, have been ever since 1969, when I read Stranger in a Strange Land - on and around July 20 - stayed up that night to watch the landing and the first walk, so when I was reading the book, Neil Armstrong was walking around on the Moon. It was a massive failure of will and misdirection of resources that put us on our present downhill path, the US could have done far, far better but the low, "easy" road was taken.
About specialization being for insects: I have a BSc, MSc (natural products chemistry), PhD (physical/organic/computational chemistry) (1981-1987) and a JD (2000), active and in good standing, Kansas and USPTO Bars. I did active research in various aspects of chemistry, co-author on 12 papers in that field. Later, in 2000, I had an 89 page monograph on the legal meaning of the word "blight" published in the ABA Journal of Real Property, Probate, and Trusts. On one of my post-docs, wound up doing neural net research on devising a real time emergent failure mode predictor for the high pressure fuel turbopump of the Space Shuttle Main Engine - and presented at the Joint Propulsion Conference in Cincinnati in 1990 - and got a NASA grant funded... Did 17 years of criminal defense law practice, 10 years of involuntary commitment defense. Edited, published, and organized issue 45 of Factsheet Five - see https://f5archive.org/issue45/ and the issue itself at https://archive.org/details/factsheet_five_45 (1991). Board member, legal counsel, and founding member of Sustainability Action Network, Lawrence, KS (2007-present) - and a few permaculture and agroforestry design courses, the latter with Dave Jacke. ... and then there's my Substack page which I've been doing since 2021. How's that for non-specialization?
Maxim, are you ready to take on clients of your own? Here's our story.
You bailed to Uruguay five years ago. I bailed to Ukraine in 2007 at the age of 64 to start a second family. Uruguay is our Plan C if the Russians force us to move; Missiones Province of Argentina is Plan B.
Son Eddie, almost 14, will graduate at 16 in 2028. I have been encouraging him to work a year - get some experience before attending university. It is a far better deal in Ukraine than the US, though I'm sure that reading The Preparation will open him up to new ideas. We have long followed your dad's advice on Bitcoin and metals. Eddie's challenge will be managing what we have for his mom and younger sisters when time forces me to pass the reins.
funny you mention kingston in 1998. i grew up in peterborough. when people would say they were from kingston or i was in kingston, the response was, prison or mental hospital? !! ontario people were known to be "new york" kind of rude. albertans called people from ontario, eastern bums and scum!
Well, it depends on where you go to school. The Medic Cycle is about going to EMT school, which doesn’t (to my knowledge) push vaccines on students. I went to school in Boise, Idaho and had no trouble with that at all with anyone pushing that.
You know, Matt, I realized I’m on almost the same journey you are with Maxim — I’m preparing my son in real time. He finished college, but he tells me he’s learning more from this experience than he did in four years at Seton Hall. I brought him to Uruguay, and he’s coming back with me in January. He’s not just reading about business, he’s sitting in the room as it gets built. That’s the same philosophy you and Doug laid out in The Preparation — learn by doing, apprentice into competence. Different subject matter, same principle. That’s why I bought the book for my son — because it puts into words the path I’ve already started him on.
I have mine!
It seems like you're doing the same kind of thing as these people - https://www.deepsprings.edu/next/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/TheLeagueOfNunnianSchools2023-09-18.pdf - and https://www.deepsprings.edu/
I am a fan of Heinlein, have been ever since 1969, when I read Stranger in a Strange Land - on and around July 20 - stayed up that night to watch the landing and the first walk, so when I was reading the book, Neil Armstrong was walking around on the Moon. It was a massive failure of will and misdirection of resources that put us on our present downhill path, the US could have done far, far better but the low, "easy" road was taken.
About specialization being for insects: I have a BSc, MSc (natural products chemistry), PhD (physical/organic/computational chemistry) (1981-1987) and a JD (2000), active and in good standing, Kansas and USPTO Bars. I did active research in various aspects of chemistry, co-author on 12 papers in that field. Later, in 2000, I had an 89 page monograph on the legal meaning of the word "blight" published in the ABA Journal of Real Property, Probate, and Trusts. On one of my post-docs, wound up doing neural net research on devising a real time emergent failure mode predictor for the high pressure fuel turbopump of the Space Shuttle Main Engine - and presented at the Joint Propulsion Conference in Cincinnati in 1990 - and got a NASA grant funded... Did 17 years of criminal defense law practice, 10 years of involuntary commitment defense. Edited, published, and organized issue 45 of Factsheet Five - see https://f5archive.org/issue45/ and the issue itself at https://archive.org/details/factsheet_five_45 (1991). Board member, legal counsel, and founding member of Sustainability Action Network, Lawrence, KS (2007-present) - and a few permaculture and agroforestry design courses, the latter with Dave Jacke. ... and then there's my Substack page which I've been doing since 2021. How's that for non-specialization?
Maxim, are you ready to take on clients of your own? Here's our story.
You bailed to Uruguay five years ago. I bailed to Ukraine in 2007 at the age of 64 to start a second family. Uruguay is our Plan C if the Russians force us to move; Missiones Province of Argentina is Plan B.
Son Eddie, almost 14, will graduate at 16 in 2028. I have been encouraging him to work a year - get some experience before attending university. It is a far better deal in Ukraine than the US, though I'm sure that reading The Preparation will open him up to new ideas. We have long followed your dad's advice on Bitcoin and metals. Eddie's challenge will be managing what we have for his mom and younger sisters when time forces me to pass the reins.
Look forward to following your adventures.
The EMT school nearest me has recently dropped the clot shot requirement however they still require the following vaccines:
TB Test:
A negative TB test within the last 12 months OR
A negative IGRA blood test within the last 12 months.
Hepatitis B:
A three-dose vaccine series AND a titer showing immunity OR
A three-dose vaccine series AND a booster OR
A signed declination form
Flu:
The vaccine must have been received within the last 12 months.
Measles, Mumps & Rubella (MMR):
A two-dose vaccine series OR
A signed declination form
Varicella (Chickenpox):
A two-dose vaccine series OR
A titer showing immunity OR
A signed attestation of having chicken pox.
Looks like I can decline every thing except the flu shot. Not worth it to me. Covid shot killed my mom. I don’t trust any of their vaccines anymore.
funny you mention kingston in 1998. i grew up in peterborough. when people would say they were from kingston or i was in kingston, the response was, prison or mental hospital? !! ontario people were known to be "new york" kind of rude. albertans called people from ontario, eastern bums and scum!
I too have considered attending medic school but they require the clot shot. I refuse to join the vaccine death cult.
Well, it depends on where you go to school. The Medic Cycle is about going to EMT school, which doesn’t (to my knowledge) push vaccines on students. I went to school in Boise, Idaho and had no trouble with that at all with anyone pushing that.
They sure didn’t in Maxim’s case.