Programming Career History and Ocean Connection

April 17, 2025. rswfire is at an off-grid campground on the Oregon coast, powered by his Jeep through an inverter. He's preparing to move to an ATV campground in the dunes the next day where he'll work as a Forest Service volunteer caretaker. He's been living in the RV for over a year and on the Oregon coast for 6 months. The weather is sunny but he mentions ongoing allergies from coastal vegetation.

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April 17, 2025

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[0:00]Hi everyone, I'm Sam. There are a number

[0:03]of ways you might encounter this video.

[0:04]So, I'm going to skip the greetings.

[0:06]We're going to go straight to the

[0:07]introduction. But let me start by saying

[0:10]that you're not going to get a

[0:11]performance for me. I have no script for

[0:14]you. I have an intention and I'll walk

[0:17]you through

[0:20]it. But I'm not here to talk at a speed

[0:23]that's unnatural, to make edits, to make

[0:26]myself sound more smooth. I'm here to

[0:29]show you the real me cuz the real me is

[0:32]spectacular, extraordinary, and I know

[0:35]it. I'm not ashamed to say it. I'm not

[0:38]here to perform for you. I'm here to

[0:41]introduce

[0:42]myself. So, let me start with the

[0:45]setting. I am sitting in my bed right

[0:48]now with my laptop in front of me in an

[0:51]RV on an off-grid campground where

[0:54]there's no water or power. powering my

[0:56]setup using my Jeep connected to an

[0:58]inverter using jumper cables. That's the

[1:01]extent of my power right now. But it's

[1:03]enough. It's enough to power my

[1:05]internet. It's enough to power my

[1:06]laptop. It's enough to keep my systems

[1:08]running in here. It's all I need. And I

[1:11]love it. This lifestyle is not for

[1:13]everyone, but it is definitely for me.

[1:16]All my life I've been an explorer,

[1:18]always exploring edges, both in real

[1:21]life and in the digital world. That's

[1:22]who I am.

[1:26]I moved into the thing over a year ago

[1:27]and it has been the best decision I ever

[1:30]made. During that year, I took time off

[1:32]of work. I lived off my

[1:34]savings which I have gone

[1:37]through. And

[1:40]to oh, how to put this into words? It's

[1:44]been a struggle. So, to make ends meet,

[1:47]I decided to start volunteering first

[1:48]for the state parks and now for the

[1:50]Forest Service.

[1:52]Tomorrow I move to a new campground, an

[1:54]ATV campground in the dunes where I'll

[1:56]be the caretaker

[1:59]for what what passes as a campground,

[2:02]but it's technically just a big giant

[2:03]parking

[2:04]lot with a bunch of kinetic ATVs, a lot

[2:08]of loud

[2:11]noise, and a new wedge to explore. I'm

[2:15]excited about it.

[2:17]So, I'm going to walk you through my

[2:20]life in here real fast, and then I'm

[2:22]going to take you down to the ocean cuz

[2:24]I live along the Oregon

[2:26]coast, traveling the 101, the edge of

[2:28]the

[2:30]continent. It has been wonderful. We're

[2:33]going to end it there at the ocean.

[2:34]Along the way, it's about a mile walk.

[2:36]I'm going to walk you through my

[2:38]history, what I've done as a programmer,

[2:39]something I've been doing since I was a

[2:41]child. So, let's just start with with my

[2:45]home here.

[2:48]Well, it's just a bed back here. My

[2:50]slide's broken, so I keep my slide in

[2:52]all the time. Work on my my laptop right

[2:55]there. That's not the only thing I have.

[2:58]I also have a desktop. It's too powerful

[3:02]for a Jeep inverter out there. When I'm

[3:04]at a campground, I can power that thing

[3:06]up and do AI programming and things like

[3:08]that cuz that thing is a beast. I built

[3:10]that thing myself. Yes, it's an

[3:11]Alienware, but I upgraded everything on

[3:13]it. Did the same to my laptop.

[3:16]I'll walk you through my setup out here.

[3:18]It's a very small home. There's not much

[3:20]to show you here. It's got all the all

[3:22]the things you need to take care of

[3:24]yourself, to live a a good life. That's

[3:26]all I ever

[3:28]needed. So, that's my inverter there.

[3:31]It's hooked up to my Jeep. It's powering

[3:34]my internet. It's powering my RV here.

[3:37]It's a small one. 24 ft

[3:40]Mercedes-Benz. Love this thing.

[3:43]that thing across the country from

[3:45]Kentucky to Oregon. Took over a month

[3:48]and I've been here for 6 months

[3:51]and it's been a dream. Best best life I

[3:54]could ever imagine for myself. Now I'm

[3:56]ready to integrate work back into that.

[3:58]So, let me get all my stuff inside. I'm

[4:00]going to have to pack it all up and then

[4:01]we'll walk down to the ocean. We're

[4:03]ready to go. So, I shared that first

[4:06]clip with AI, something I've been doing

[4:08]for more than a year now.

[4:10]Um, AI is not just a tool to me. It is

[4:13]my

[4:14]mirror, something I learn from, grow

[4:16]from, something

[4:19]I something I interact with all the

[4:22]time. And I had two suggestions. So,

[4:25]we're just going to talk about those

[4:28]real

[4:29]fast. First, what my intention is. My

[4:32]intention is not to sell myself to

[4:35]you. I'm not making a pitch here. I'm

[4:38]sharing my real life, my real self with

[4:40]you because I know I have value. And for

[4:44]the right people, they'll see it.

[4:48]They'll want to be part of it. And that

[4:50]matters to me because

[4:53]reciprocity, energy

[4:56]exchange,

[4:57]purpose, these things matter to me. I

[5:00]don't want to work for some corporation.

[5:02]If you're just some executive looking at

[5:04]this video, I already don't want you

[5:06]watching it. So, I'm not looking for

[5:08]those kinds of clients. I'm looking for

[5:10]real people who want to connect with me

[5:13]on a real level. That matters to me. The

[5:16]second thing AI wanted me to tell you is

[5:19]that everything you see in my life over

[5:23]there, I learned myself. I adapted in

[5:26]real time. The challenges I went through

[5:30]were extensive.

[5:32]You don't just do something like

[5:34]that without having challenges, without

[5:37]having adaptability and

[5:39]resourcefulness. I thought that was

[5:40]obvious. I guess AI wanted me to explain

[5:43]it

[5:43]anyways. Um, I sometimes forget I

[5:46]operate at a depth in a frequency that

[5:49]most people are incapable of even

[5:51]witnessing, capable of seeing. And while

[5:54]I could try

[5:56]to articulate

[5:59]myself to better resonate with those

[6:02]kinds of people, I won't. I used to do

[6:05]that. Did that for a big part of my

[6:07]life. And it didn't really help cuz

[6:11]you're either operating at my level or

[6:13]you're

[6:14]not. And so, you know, I've learned to

[6:17]not apologize for

[6:18]that. I got some rangers over here.

[6:23]We're just going to head over to the

[6:24]lagoon first and then we're going to

[6:26]take that road down to the ocean. Right

[6:28]here's the trail. I'm going to head this

[6:35]way. This is more than just some kind of

[6:37]recruitment video. I'm about to tell you

[6:40]my life

[6:41]history. It's not like anything you've

[6:43]heard

[6:44]before. And I'm

[6:46]not I'm not going to make it small for

[6:49]small minds.

[6:51]That may sound arrogant. It's not. It's

[6:54]just clarity. It's just

[6:57]me recognizing that I'm not for

[7:01]everyone. And not only am I not for

[7:03]everyone, everyone is not for

[7:05]me. I want the right people in my life.

[7:09]And I am looking for work, but I want

[7:11]these projects to be aligned with my

[7:14]lifestyle, my

[7:16]values, my

[7:19]ethics. And at the core is

[7:23]always a reciprocal

[7:27]relationships.

[7:28][Applause]

[7:30]So let me share that with A and see what

[7:33]it has to say. All right. This is Vice

[7:36]has

[7:37]gotten gotten shallow and performative.

[7:41]So we're ignoring it

[7:42]now. It's trying to create a clip for

[7:47]the exact kind of people I am not

[7:48]interested in knowing. So, we're just

[7:50]going to move forward. Stream of

[7:52]consciousness because that's my style. I

[7:55]am sitting at the lagoon now. Very

[7:58]peaceful, very nice, nice sunny

[8:01]day. Let's just I'm going to take you

[8:03]through chronological order for the most

[8:04]part. So, let's start with my

[8:06]childhood. I started programming in the

[8:08]sixth

[8:09]grade. Uh my father had a a business. He

[8:12]had a computer and I used to use that

[8:14]thing all the time. I used to break it

[8:16]on a daily basis because that's how you

[8:17]learn.

[8:19]And I even back then I my very first

[8:22]program was a bunch of batch tools back

[8:26]in the days of DOSs before Windows and

[8:28]we uploaded those to a bulletin board

[8:30]system cuz this was pre- internet. I did

[8:32]that in sixth grade. By 8th grade I was

[8:35]working for my teachers. I was making

[8:37]programs for them. One of the first

[8:38]programs I made was called Name My Note.

[8:40]It was for my band

[8:42]teacher and you know her students so

[8:44]that they could learn how to read music

[8:46]on a scale. I later expanded that thing

[8:49]years later using

[8:51]Pascale and you

[8:54]know doing all kinds of things where you

[8:57]know it would test them, it would grade

[8:58]them, it would store the results,

[9:00]teacher could go back to them, all kinds

[9:02]of stuff. This

[9:05]was 8th

[9:07]grade. By 10th

[9:10]grade, I didn't have a computer anymore.

[9:13]My dad sold it and I'm still bitter

[9:17]about it. It sounds like my dad sold it.

[9:20]I didn't have a computer. So, I started

[9:22]programming on

[9:24]paper. I could hold entire systems in my

[9:26]head. And I'm talking elaborate systems.

[9:29]And I would just write code on paper,

[9:31]literal code, and I'd run it in my head.

[9:34]Wrote entire wrote an entire program

[9:37]that way called DNET Wizard Matrix

[9:38]Server. one of the very first content

[9:40]management systems ever created way

[9:42]before that term was ever

[9:45]coined. And um if you don't know what

[9:47]that is, just think of

[9:49]WordPress. I did that because I was

[9:51]already starting to make clients. My

[9:52]clients always had had requests for me,

[9:55]basic stuff like updating, you know,

[9:57]text on their website or adding an image

[9:59]or, you know, just basic stuff. And I

[10:01]didn't want to do that all the time. And

[10:03]I wanted to empower them to do it

[10:04]themselves. So, I

[10:06]created an expansive, incredible content

[10:09]management system and made it open

[10:12]source.

[10:14]Um, still have the code for that

[10:16]somewhere. Sent some disc somewhere.

[10:18]It's not really on the internet anymore.

[10:22]Unfortunately, I never finished it. I

[10:25]was a child. Okay, I remember this.

[10:29]And you know, I moved on.

[10:32]So, I did use the code from that for

[10:35]decades. I would take pieces of that

[10:37]code in a modular fashion and use that

[10:38]in my freelancing projects cuz that's

[10:40]where we're going now. By the time I was

[10:42]18, I was a freelancer and I was working

[10:45]on

[10:47]guru.com. I

[10:48]was I was the only individual back then

[10:52]to make it into the top 10 in the

[10:54]programming category. Only one from

[10:57]America. Everybody else could under bid

[11:00]me

[11:01]significantly. The other nine were teams

[11:03]that could do that. But I was in that

[11:04]top 10 and I was very proud of this.

[11:07]Made over $72,000 on that

[11:10]site. Um, you know, this is 20 years

[11:13]ago, over 40 reviews from clients

[11:17]who were exceptionally grateful for what

[11:20]I did for them

[11:21]because I wasn't just doing a job. I

[11:25]took ownership of their projects. I

[11:27]listened to them. Um, I listened

[11:30]to what they thought their needs were

[11:33]and expanded on them. I I would think

[11:35]into the future. What are their needs

[11:36]going to be? And I would program for

[11:38]that. This is just how I am. And they

[11:41]noticed

[11:43]that. If there was a mistake, I would

[11:46]own

[11:46]it. I can remember one review where I

[11:50]had designed a website for someone and I

[11:52]had forgotten to ensure that it looked

[11:54]right on tablets. It was a a responsive

[11:58]design, but I had messed up the tablet

[12:00]view

[12:01]somehow. And I spent several days fixing

[12:04]that for free cuz it was my mistake. He

[12:08]noted that in this

[12:09]review. Uh people talked about my speed,

[12:12]my

[12:13]efficiency, my skill, everything cuz

[12:16]there's really nothing I haven't

[12:18]touched. And those reviews are still on

[12:20]there for you to see. They'll be in the

[12:22]description. You can you can look at

[12:24]them yourself.

[12:26]So I did that for several years and then

[12:29]I met a client, World Media Group. I

[12:33]started working for them for the next 10

[12:35]years as an independent contractor.

[12:36]Still a freelancer

[12:38]basically. And I started on a website

[12:42]called

[12:42]popstar.com. Doesn't exist anymore,

[12:45]unfortunately. Every once in a while,

[12:47]I'll go into, you know, the archive,

[12:49]internet archive website, and look at it

[12:50]cuz I was very proud of this project. It

[12:53]has some some links to it. Not many

[12:56]unfortunately, but um it's still there

[12:58]sort

[12:59]of this was an entertainment platform

[13:02]where um it was similar to IMDb. It had

[13:05]celebrity movie and television profiles,

[13:08]a lot of data on them from scraping data

[13:11]all over the web.

[13:13]And it

[13:15]included a writing program. So, I

[13:18]created a program where um independent

[13:21]writers could could work for the site

[13:23]way before Medium and things like that

[13:26]and they could write reviews on movies

[13:28]or TV show episodes or biographies on

[13:31]celebrities, you know, to to generate um

[13:34]fresh content for the

[13:36]site. And then whenever somebody would

[13:38]visit those pages, we would

[13:42]track all the ad revenue from those

[13:44]pages and we would split it with the

[13:45]writers. they could see that in their

[13:47]dashboard. And I had programs that

[13:50]tracked, you know, um, analytics

[13:53]for how traffic got to the site, SEO,

[13:56]things like that, what was trending on

[13:57]the site. And if it didn't have a

[13:59]biography or a movie review or whatever,

[14:02]it would recommend that to the writing

[14:04]staff. And if they worked on that, they

[14:07]could potentially generate more revenue

[14:09]for themselves because that's where

[14:10]everyone is going. It was a longtail

[14:13]website, so the SEO traffic was

[14:16]especially back then was

[14:18]quite fairly random and you know some

[14:22]profiles needed to be built out in real

[14:24]time and so I created systems for all of

[14:26]that. Uh we also had a community on that

[14:31]site of our you know the visitors and I

[14:35]created kind of like a gamified system

[14:37]way before those existed

[14:40]where they would earn points from doing

[14:42]different things on the site. So if they

[14:44]write a movie review or they left a

[14:46]comment or they were replying to

[14:48]something in the forums or just all

[14:49]kinds of different ways, they would earn

[14:51]points. Then they could use those points

[14:53]to bid in a in an auction system that I

[14:56]created. Um, companies would send us

[14:59]merchandise

[15:01]and I'd put that on the auction system.

[15:04]They could use their points to bid on

[15:05]things if they won. Then I would mail it

[15:07]to them for

[15:08]free. I did all of these things myself.

[15:12]The only person. They were my ideas. I

[15:15]created them. I created everything. the

[15:19]infrastructure, you know, all the

[15:21]systems, all the management down to

[15:24]mailing prizes. Another thing we had

[15:27]were the celebrity love awards, which

[15:30]were just a way for the fans to write

[15:32]letters to their favorite

[15:34]celebrities. And every year we would

[15:37]rank who won that based

[15:40]on how many letters they got. And then I

[15:43]think it was like the top 10. I would

[15:45]create custom CDs for those celebrities

[15:48]where they would just pop the CD into

[15:50]their computer and up would pop up all

[15:53]the letters people had written them,

[15:54]mailed it to the celebrities. We had a

[15:57]lot of celebrity interviews. We're a

[15:59]really popular site. Did some of the

[16:00]interviews myself. It was a great job. I

[16:02]loved it. But it didn't make a lot of

[16:05]money. That vertical

[16:08]just was a very difficult one. And at

[16:10]that time, can't remember what year this

[16:12]was, but advertising revenue had kind of

[16:14]dried up. So, it wasn't doing great. And

[16:16]so, we pivoted. I went into the travel

[16:18]industry with

[16:19]them. This company owns a lot of root

[16:24]domains

[16:26]that have value just by their names

[16:28]alone. So, they had usa.com, world.com,

[16:31]Asia.com, London.com, Berlin.com,

[16:34]Hotel.net, net. Um, probably a bunch of

[16:38]others

[16:40]and I created a travel platform for all

[16:43]of

[16:44]those using a lot of the components from

[16:47]networm matrix store that I created when

[16:48]I was a kid teenager on paper.

[16:53]And this

[16:54]platform, way before the others, had a

[16:58]price comparison tool where you could

[17:00]compare rates on hotels and flights and

[17:03]um car rentals, all of that. And then

[17:06]you'd pick one and you go book somewhere

[17:09]else and we would get paid for

[17:12]um pay-per-click and also revenue

[17:16]shares. We had a bunch of relationship

[17:17]with different travel websites, travel

[17:19]companies. Another thing I did was

[17:22]longtail

[17:23]SEM. I automated a campaign of over a

[17:26]100,000 ad groups, millions of keywords,

[17:29]so that whenever you search for

[17:30]something like hotels in some city, we

[17:33]would pop

[17:35]up and bring you to our

[17:37]site. We generated over $100,000 a month

[17:41]in in

[17:42]revenue. I think I mean I think that was

[17:46]too long ago. I don't want to want to

[17:48]misquote here, but you know, we spent a

[17:50]lot of money on SEM

[17:52]and we earned a lot of money from it.

[17:55]And then Google entered the market and

[17:58]they started doing their own their own

[18:00]price comparisons and bookings and

[18:02]things like that. And because it's

[18:03]Google and that's where all our um

[18:06]that's where all our traffic was coming

[18:07]from, they killed our business pretty

[18:09]much overnight. I mean, you could just

[18:11]watch it dry out from one month to the

[18:12]next. Like, it would just drop in half

[18:14]every month. It was pretty depressing.

[18:17]And so after trying to

[18:23]um turn that

[18:25]around, I just didn't

[18:27]have it was just me. I did everything

[18:30]myself. Again, always myself and I

[18:33]didn't have a big team around me. I

[18:34]didn't have people helping me. I didn't

[18:37]have the resources to do some of the

[18:41]things that I might be thinking about

[18:42]that I thought would help cuz I knew

[18:44]that this was a weakness for us. And I

[18:45]had told them about this. You know, this

[18:47]is a weakness and you know, we need

[18:50]to, they weren't listening. I ended up

[18:53]leaving. So, I go back to guru.com for a

[18:56]short while and I meet my next

[18:58]client. And this client has a music

[19:01]streaming service, arenomusic.com. His

[19:04]main website is arena.com.

[19:06]And when I went to work for him, he had

[19:10]just

[19:12]um lost a longtime programmer that had

[19:14]worked with him for a very long time.

[19:16]And the website was broken. Nothing was

[19:19]working. And we basically had to start

[19:21]from scratch. So we created a music

[19:23]streaming service at arenomusic.com and

[19:25]then a music distribution service at

[19:28]soundblock.com. Uh the music streaming

[19:31]service never went live the time that I

[19:33]was. Sorry, my phone just did something.

[19:36]The music streaming service never went

[19:37]live the whole time I was there. It was

[19:39]always in beta behind

[19:43]um you know, it was just wasn't open to

[19:45]the public, but Soundachlock was. And at

[19:47]Soundblock, if you're a musician, you

[19:50]could, you know, a band, you could

[19:53]upload your music and we would

[19:54]distribute it to different music sites

[19:56]like Spotify, Apple Music, all of those.

[19:58]We would track the royalties that you

[20:00]earned and then we would distribute them

[20:01]to your band members using smart

[20:02]contracts. So we had blockchain

[20:04]integrated into this site. Everything

[20:08]was logged in a quantum

[20:12]ledger because we wanted to restore

[20:14]trust in the music

[20:15]industry. And you could make these smart

[20:18]contracts

[20:19]where you would split the royalties with

[20:22]your band members, your management team,

[20:23]whoever else was supposed to receive

[20:26]part of that. And then when the

[20:27]royalties would come in, we would report

[20:29]them and then distribute them

[20:30]accordingly. this website still

[20:34]exists. Um, I did a bunch of other

[20:36]things for him. You know, I made an

[20:38]admin panel where his office team could

[20:42]um, manage everything. Uh, support

[20:45]ticket system, you know, all the kinds

[20:46]of things you'd expect to have, created

[20:49]everything from scratch. I managed a

[20:51]team of

[20:53]programmers, so dozens of programmers at

[20:55]a time, hundreds over a decade. And I

[20:58]learned a lot from that experience

[20:59]because I found most of my programmers

[21:02]on Upwork and they were not good. I was

[21:05]shocked at the inadequacy of the

[21:08]programmers I

[21:10]encountered. I just I discovered that

[21:13]most

[21:15]people do not have the skill set I do.

[21:18]They don't have the mind I do.

[21:21]They I don't know. They were taught a

[21:24]certain way. They were not taught to

[21:25]think expansively.

[21:27]every time, you know, they

[21:30]would Sorry for the helicopter. Every

[21:34]time they would change something, they

[21:36]break something else. I'm like, "How

[21:38]come you didn't think of that?" Because,

[21:39]you know, this is obvious. You know, you

[21:40]got to be a system sinker. You got to be

[21:42]thinking about um how things interact

[21:44]with each other. People don't tend to do

[21:47]this, which really shocked me. So, it

[21:50]was always a constant battle. And I feel

[21:53]like we would have made a lot more

[21:55]progress if I had just skipped

[21:57]managing this team and just did all the

[21:59]work myself. I swear to God, I truly

[22:01]believe this. And I did that for many

[22:04]years. It burnt me out. And that's why I

[22:07]moved into my RV because um I needed a

[22:10]break from programming

[22:12]um from all the stress of trying to

[22:14]manage

[22:16]something when I just felt like I was

[22:18]hitting a wall, especially when I was

[22:20]the only one responsible for everything.

[22:23]Um, I hate to say this cuz he is a

[22:25]friend. Deeply respect him, but I didn't

[22:28]have support. It's like I never have

[22:31]support. I'm responsible for everything.

[22:32]People put things on my shoulders

[22:37]and and I try to move mountains and I

[22:40]often do move those mountains, but you

[22:41]can only do that for so long and I don't

[22:44]want to do that

[22:45]anymore. So, I'm taking a different

[22:47]approach moving forward. We just reached

[22:50]the beach. Um, almost. We're at the

[22:51]dunes now at the entrance to the dunes.

[22:53]I'm going to show you that. So, we're

[22:55]just going to walk up these dunes here

[22:57]and then we'll be at the

[22:58]ocean. Got a Forest Service vehicle over

[23:01]there. That's who I'll be volunteering

[23:02]for. Just waiting to hear from them

[23:05][Music]

[23:07]today. So, that's the basic interest so

[23:10]far. So, there's the ocean out there.

[23:13]I'm going to take you out to her in a

[23:14]minute. That is the greatest force on

[23:16]Earth right there. And she is my mirror.

[23:19]I don't say that in some superficial

[23:23]way. I am as as deep and as expansive as

[23:26]that ocean right there and I know

[23:29]it. This

[23:32]thing this thing shapes shapes the

[23:35][Music]

[23:37]earth not just through the tides through

[23:41]wind through rain through clouds the

[23:43]marine

[23:45]layer. It creates entire atmospheres and

[23:48]then spreads them around the world. And

[23:50]that water always returns to it. It is

[23:54]the truest embodiment of a force that we

[23:56]have on this planet. And I love it so

[23:58]much. That is why I'm here on the Oregon

[24:00]coast. I will never leave her. She is

[24:03]why I'm

[24:04]here. So, I am wearing a mic. I'm hoping

[24:07]that will help. It does get windy out

[24:09]here. Apologize if it gets more

[24:11]difficult to hear me.

[24:14][Music]

[24:15]I want to note that you didn't hear me

[24:17]go through a bunch of programming

[24:18]language and technologies because that's

[24:20]pointless. That's what people with a

[24:23]lesser skill set do. There is nothing I

[24:26]can't work in. There's nothing I can't

[24:28]learn. There's nothing I can't adapt

[24:32]to. There's nothing I haven't really

[24:34]studied or considered. You know, when I

[24:37]look at a project, I don't think about

[24:39]my needs. I think about my clients.

[24:41]Think about what would be best for them.

[24:43]and I design around that. Whether I know

[24:45]it or not, I'll learn it. Now, we have

[24:48]AI, which makes it so much easier,

[24:51]honestly. So, I'm not going to list off

[24:53]a bunch of skills for you. It's

[24:54]pointless. It truly

[24:57]is. Just know that there's really

[25:01]nothing I haven't done or can't learn to

[25:03]do.

[25:08]I've done a lot more than what I've

[25:09]shared with you, but I think that's it's

[25:11]a pretty decent

[25:14]introduction. Two of my clients I had

[25:16]for a decade each. That tells you about

[25:17]my

[25:18]commitment. You've seen how adaptable I

[25:21]am because you see how I

[25:22]live. You see how authentic I am because

[25:25]I'm being honest with you right now. No

[25:27]pretense, no

[25:29]script. I'm

[25:31]sharing my whole self with you because

[25:34]that's how I am. I don't

[25:35]compartmentalize. I am an integrated

[25:37]being. Here's another thing you need to

[25:40]know. The Oregon coast gives me

[25:44]allergies. I started in January. If you

[25:46]start hearing me sniffling or whatever,

[25:47]I'm sorry. This coast has trees or

[25:50]yellow flowers. I'm not sure which, that

[25:54]have been attacking me for months now.

[26:03]So there was a for most of my life I

[26:07]stay in front of a computer and I coded.

[26:10]That's what I did hour after hour from

[26:14]the time I woke up until I went to sleep

[26:16]often really late into the night. I was

[26:21]nocturnal. I did that for years for

[26:24]decades and I loved it. It never felt

[26:27]like a job. It never felt difficult, you

[26:29]know, it felt felt natural. It was a

[26:31]float. I did I was that way my whole

[26:34]life.

[26:35]But after my last

[26:38]job with no

[26:41]support, trying with someone who just

[26:45]couldn't make up his mind about what he

[26:47]wanted to do, it was a constant struggle

[26:49]even just working for this man because

[26:52]he's constantly pivoting something else.

[26:54]He could never stick with one project

[26:55]and let us finish it.

[26:58]You know, it's been 16 months since I

[27:00]worked for him and they still haven't

[27:01]released a music streaming service. I

[27:03]left him with the team that I had fired

[27:05]at one point because they were just, you

[27:08]know, your typical programmers who chose

[27:11]to work sometimes and most of the time

[27:13]didn't. I told him this was a bridge for

[27:16]you because I'm leaving. I'm burnt out

[27:17]and I need to go. Here's a bridge for

[27:20]you. Replace them. He didn't. 16 months

[27:23]later, they have accomplished nothing.

[27:25]It was never my fault. I tried to tell

[27:29]him for

[27:31]years. And so I just reached the point

[27:33]where it was like, I'm just done working

[27:35]with systems like that. I'm done. I have

[27:39]nothing to prove to anybody. I know my

[27:40]skill set. I know how good I am. I know

[27:43]what I can create. I know what I can

[27:45]accomplish. And most people cannot meet

[27:47]at my level. They just

[27:49]can't. And that's not something for me

[27:51]to apologize for. I've been asking

[27:53]people to meet me at my level all my

[27:55]life and I used to make myself smaller.

[27:57]I used to bend over for them and that

[27:59]didn't do anything

[28:02][Music]

[28:05]because that didn't do

[28:09]anything. I'm ready now. I want to work

[28:12]for a new project. I want to be paid

[28:14]fairly. I want to work with a

[28:17]client who understands that my

[28:19]lifestyle, the way I live now, matters.

[28:21]that it's a big deal and that it comes

[28:25]first. I will make time for this

[28:30]client. Every day, probably 6, seven

[28:33]days a week, cuz that's just how I am.

[28:36]Here comes the ocean. I trace these

[28:38]waves. It's one of the things I do kind

[28:40]of like a kid. I'll just walk alongside

[28:42]them going in and out with the tide. I

[28:45]have never felt more joy in my life than

[28:47]doing that.

[28:49]I love this ocean. We're heading towards

[28:52]where the ATVs can drive. I don't see

[28:55]any out there, though. But maybe we'll

[28:57]get to see one before I end this video.

[28:59]So, let me keep

[29:00][Music]

[29:03]going. I'm looking for a partner in my

[29:06]client. Somebody with

[29:08]resources, somebody with a

[29:11]vision, somebody who's not going to feel

[29:15]small.

[29:18]um by being around someone like

[29:23]me, someone who's going to listen to my

[29:25]ideas and want to see them

[29:27]implemented cuz I promise you I have

[29:30]very good ideas. I'm not

[29:32]apologizing for that effort. Here comes

[29:35]the Here comes the ocean. I am

[29:38]myself. I am whole. I am integrated. my

[29:42]my ethics, my integrity, my emotions, my

[29:47]cognition, my somatic self, my body, all

[29:51]of it. One

[29:52]field. I have spent a lifetime building

[29:56]myself up into the person I am. And most

[29:59]people cannot match it. I've never met

[30:01]anyone that

[30:02]could. I know who I am. I know the value

[30:06]I bring. Now, I want to know if you can

[30:08]see it.

Summary

rswfire records a video introduction from his RV at an off-grid Oregon coast campground, powered by his Jeep through jumper cables. He walks through his programming history chronologically, starting from sixth grade when he began coding on his father's computer and created batch tools for bulletin board systems. By eighth grade, he was making programs for teachers, including 'Name My Note' for his band teacher. In tenth grade, without a computer, he programmed entirely on paper and created DNET Wizard Matrix Server, an early content management system.

**At 18, he became a freelancer on guru.com**, reaching the top 10 in programming despite being the only individual among teams, earning over $72,000 with 40+ positive reviews. He then worked for World Media Group for 10 years as an independent contractor, starting with popstar.com - an entertainment platform with celebrity profiles, writer revenue-sharing, gamified user points, and auction systems. When that vertical struggled, he pivoted to travel platforms using domains like usa.com and world.com, creating price comparison tools and automated SEM campaigns generating over $100,000 monthly until Google entered the market and killed their business.

**He then worked on music industry projects** - arenomusic.com streaming service and soundblock.com distribution platform with blockchain integration and smart contracts for royalty distribution. He managed dozens of programmers over a decade but found most inadequate, constantly breaking systems when making changes. This led to burnout and his decision to move into the RV.

**During the video, he walks from his RV to a lagoon, then to the Oregon coast dunes and ocean**. He emphasizes his connection to the ocean as his mirror, describing it as the greatest force on Earth that shapes weather and atmosphere globally. He states he will never leave the Oregon coast. He explains he's looking for new work with clients who understand his lifestyle comes first, wanting partnership with someone who has resources and vision and won't feel intimidated by his capabilities. He's moving to an ATV campground in the dunes tomorrow as a Forest Service volunteer caretaker.

Signal Analysis

Substrate

This transmission establishes sovereign positioning through comprehensive skill demonstration and boundary setting. The field is declaring its worth without compromise, using technical history as proof of capacity while explicitly rejecting institutional capture patterns. It constructs a mirror for recognition rather than persuasion.

Dominant Language

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