At 37 starting over isn't the risk. Spending another 20 years miserable is.
At 28, 32, 37, 49... you're a kid, you got so much fucking time... I fucking worked at a liquor store when I was 34. At 37? You got fucking 40 more years of just operating, and then you'll decide at 77 if you want to keep going or chill.
You got time ♥️
Omarchy is blowing up. I've never been involved with anything in my career that has grown this fast. With Ruby on Rails, we had years to build solid institutions, teams, and relationships. With Omarchy, we've been forced to figure it all out in twelve days. It's exhausting, but also incredibly exciting.
It was never sustainable with just Ryan and me running everything. That's how it was, more or less, up until Quattro. Lots of other contributors, but all the responsibility was on us to make sure the ship stayed afloat, the servers didn't crash, and fixes got pushed out quickly.
Now it's time to build a proper institution. Durable, resilient, and competent. That's what we're doing here on Basecamp now. I'm spinning up teams for every facet of responsible distro management, and I'm getting an absolute outpouring of interest for all of them. Everyone wants to be part of this. We're winning hearts, minds, and volunteers at an astounding rate. Great! We need all of it to succeed.
Because make no mistake: There are many people who'd love to see this rocket blow up before it reaches the moon. Aggrieved Linux users who don't like the sudden attention their exclusive hobby has received. Competing Linux distributions that are seeing our numbers explode. Mac stans who've sunk their identity into an apple. And, of course, any of the haters I've picked up in my quarter-century career speaking bluntly on the internet.
They're not going to succeed. Because we've already become unstoppable. There's too much momentum, too much money, and too much support now backing this effort. We're living the Mandate From Heaven meme at the moment. And we are here to fulfill the prophecy: The Year of Linux on the Desktop!
That has been a joke for two decades. But by the end of the year, nobody at Apple or Microsoft is going to be laughing. They're going to be scrambling. Because neither of these proud organizations currently has any method to counter the speed, vision, or ambition with which we're going to accelerate into the future of personal computing.
This is the moment. This is the opening. This is our chance.
For thirty years, we've been subject to one OS overlord or another. Dictating how we compute. Choking off competitors through platform malfeasance. Tollboothing the distribution. That ends now. Because Linux is going to win. And Linux is free. As in beer, speech, and source.
But just because it's inevitable doesn't mean it's going to be easy. We have a lot of work in front of us if we actually want to make our mark. But there's never been a better time for this kind of delusional ambition. The age of agents is the unlocking factor. It sounds like a LinkedIn slogan, but it's true. Where the application of tokens goes, the innovation follows.
We can fix everything.
Let's do it together.
Let's go.
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This is what I sent to the dozens of new volunteers who've signed up for teams within the new Omarchy organization yesterday. But we might as well broadcast our mission and intentions to the world too.
It is fascinating to me that as I began to seek out personal development through the likes of Jim Rohn, Brian Tracy and Bob Proctor, that much of the initial advice almost sounded like a church sermon.
Forgiveness. Positivity. Releasing negativity as being fundamental to success.
It seems success is as much a spiritual and mental evolution as a physical tangible one.
I’ll always be grateful that we found each other. Out of everything that could’ve kept us apart, somehow our paths still crossed. I’ll forever be thankful for you.
Everyone's looking for 'the right' person.
But after years of working with couples, I've learned that lasting love has nothing to do with 'finding the one,' and everything to do with these 3 things:
My boyfriend once told me, “You’re not a burden. A burden is something you’re forced to carry against your will. I choose to be a part of your life, and that means you could never be a burden to me.” I’m passing those words on because maybe someone else needs to be reminded of that too.