Remember how I wrote that I was trying to gain “an emotional grasp of the Google search algorithm“? Well, I have done that. And then some. Central to that experiment has been probing spambots to see how they operate and how the two layers of internet data meet and clash. It’s difficult for me to distill down into words exactly at this point, but through this research I have learned a hell of a lot, which I am now actively trying to put to use.

Without giving away the game, my strategy comes straight fro Sun Tsu (while writing this I lost a chess game - proof I shouldn’t divert my attention, as well as that I am still losing 9 out of 10 games online):

“Defence implies
Lack;
Attack implies
Abundance…

Take a roundabout route,
And lure the enemy
With some gain…”

I’m sure that probably comes off as sufficiently vague in regards to playing chess against informational algorithms, but it makes perfect sense to me. It has everything to do with what Krishna refers to as “nature’s qualities.” One of the things I like the most about the above passages from The Art of War is the whole thing about abundance and lack. How energy flows from source to sink, from where there is more to where there is less.

Without getting into the tactical details of my emerging plan, I feel comfortable explaining the general outline and the goals of it. Basically I am conducting an experiment in “math.” Currently, I am making about $800 a month from my various websites in advertising revenue. If I am doing that much, there’s no practical reason why I can’t double, triple or upwardly move that number. It’s simply a matter of manipulating the formula. I have just never invested a great deal of time in doing so before, because I haven’t really any particular drive to make a lot more than that. I’ve been perfectly happy squeaking by. But recent unfoldings in my life have taught me many lessons about what’s really important, and among those has arisen a strong motivation to use my talents to provide for people I care about and set up self-perpetuating structures which will continue to do so Long After I Am Dead™.

I’m also personally interested in not ever wondering or worrying about money again, but doing so without stepping outside of the current economic system, which would make me either indigent or a target. Part of my current vision goes something like this: find or create a technical solution which causes the snake to eat its own tail. Oroboros. Connect source to sink. That is, what if I could make it so that my web revenues automatically pay off credit card or other debts every month? As it stands, I get one amount direct-deposited every month, and another dropped into PayPal, which I can then transfer into my bank account. Then I transfer funds from my bank account to pay off debts online. What if we wrote scripts to cut out the middle man, so that process was totally automated? This system plugs into this system plugs into this system plugs into this one, so that Yang is always flowing into Yin, abundance is always filling up spaces of lack and its all done without my ever having to intervene or do anything but go about my ordinary life.

I realize I probably sound lazy. I get “free money” (which I work hard for, in actuality) and now I want to eliminate the relatively small hassle of having to transfer free money around to pay bills? Exactly. Why not? If I could go six months without ever even contemplating how much money I have or what I need to save in order to pay off my bills, would I be a lot happier? Who knows, but my quality of life would certainly be very different.

A practical example: have you ever had friends who just throw money around like its nothing, picking up tabs for drinks and food, and never worrying? How much different is your mindset when you’re with them, than when you’re with friends who scrimp and save, can’t make ends meet and are constantly worrying about whether or not they can afford every little expenditure? Two very different ballgames, right? Two very different ways of feeling and of experiencing abundance and lack in our lives.

What if we could give each other not just actual abundance, but the much more important psychologically *feeling* of abundance? Wouldn’t that be something? I’m very much interested in exploring this model of existing. And I’m beginning to see a variety of ways which it could potentially function. I’ve talked in the past to a couple friends about setting up a non-profit organization which basically acts as a PayPal for creative people, except as a non-profit it doesn’t take a cut of what they earn. So you could donate me or anybody else money and they would get all of it. Maybe you could even earmark it for use in specific projects - but that’s getting ahead of myself. Now what if there were a bunch of people doing this and cooperatively using the leverage of their collective money to (1) increase their earnings and (2) cut themselves out of the loop of worrying about money? An organization like this could also offer the oroboros service of tying your bills to your earnings so you stop worrying about money at all. And (3) the organization could sponsor scholarships and funds for creative projects, etc.

Anyway, these ideas are still just beginning to take form for me. And I’m going to use myself and my current model of living and doing business as a crucible to refine the process. I’m not really interested in getting rich. I’m just interested in living my life and in improving the lives of those around me. Assuming I can get my numbers up as predictably as I think I might be able to over a few month period, I’m also going to begin looking for ways to actively help other people. I’d like to, as I said above, start doing awards and prizes for creative projects using all the “free money” I’ve been graced with. And I’d like to potentially buy some land for people to come out and work on creative projects together, and just enjoy each other’s company. And if I can make that into something which perpetuates itself without me, then its pretty much a no-brainer to go ahead and do that. Cause, shit, I can’t take any of this with me. And I’ve seen what I need to see. I’ve seen the Face of God and known True Love, and if I can set up conditions on the chessboard which facilitate other people having those experiences, then I have literally no choice but to do so. Want to come along for the ride? The more the merrier.