January 5 - January 11, 2026
Various Work Days
- Legal Work
- I missed a scheduled Case Management Conference primarily due to a calendaring error. The court continued the conference and issued an Order to Show Cause, and I have prepared a draft written explanation and apology to the court, which I intend to file after final review.
Various Work Days
- Attributive Tree System (ATS) Software Development:
- Regarding the development reapproach, I am currently working alongside GenAI to create a more thorough, principle-driven, systems-first approach that prioritizes foundational structure, constraints, and failure modes before small- and large-scale implementations.
Side Note:
- Finally finished with the temporary 10-hour shift workdays at my normal job. I'm back to part-time now, so I should have more time to spend on the project.
December 22 - January 4, 2025/2026
Christmas Day
- Legal Work
- For my CPRA case, I declined to settle because I wasn’t willing to sign a stipulation that misstated or omitted material facts about the case. I will let the court decide.
Thursday, Saturday, Sunday (this week)
- Attributive Tree System (ATS) Software Development:
- I was feeling overwhelmed by the scope of work regarding the ATS, which led me to step back and refine how I organize and strategize its development across areas like architecture, visualization, gamification, monetization, ethics, long-term governance, etc, etc.
Side Note:
- I’ve been working full-time this past week, and will be again next week (temporary for my normal job), so my typical routines for Existential has been disrupted, and I haven't been able to focus on the project as much as I need to. I will continue to work on Existential next week and will try to better adapt to this last week of full-time work.
December 15 - December 21, 2025
Unknown Work Days
- Legal Work
- Had to do more stipulation/settlement research and writing for the active, CPRA court case I'm involved in.
- Tech Upgrades & Workflow Improvement
- Upgraded to ChatGPT Business.
November 17 - December 7, 2025
Unknown Work Days
- Fieldnotes (Article Section)
- Tulare Countys Attribution (Part I): Modernity
- Finalizing article alongside GenAI.
- Legal Work
- Did more research and writing regarding the California Public Records Act, civil case litigation, case law, stipulations/settlements, and the legal system in general.
- Culture, Policies, Compliance, and Governance
- Some material I read regarding systems thinking:
- Tech Upgrades & Workflow Improvement
- I made a significant upgrade to my personal computer setup. Ive shifted to a high-end Android 16 smartphone as my primary device, paired with a compact Bluetooth keyboard and mouse. It’s far more portable, resilient, and travel-friendly than my previous gear. I may use GitHub Codespaces for certain development tasks so I can maintain a full VS Code environment without carrying a laptop. So far, it’s been the best balance of mobility and productivity I’ve had.
November 3 - November 9, 2025
Monday
- Financial Sustainability & Funding:
- Secured a continuous stream of income to meaningfully invest in Existentials growth and future development.
Side Note:
- Once I’ve adjusted to my new Monday-Friday schedule, I should be back in the flow of things.
October 20 - October 26, 2025
Wednesday/Thursday/Friday/Saturday
- Outreach (Article Section):
- Branching Out
- The written portions of the article are complete.
- Need to work on some imagery next.
Thursday?
- Culture, Policies, Compliance, and Governance:
- I was uncertain at first, but I've decided to make Determinism a supporting tenet of Existential.
Friday
- Attributive Tree System (ATS) Software Development:
- Rebuilt the ATS API environment and cleaned up old build files and confirmed working configuration.
October 6 - October 12, 2025
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday
- Legal Work & Research:
- Worked on more legal stuff regarding CPRA, court case preparation and litigation. :P
Friday
- Attributive Tree System (ATS) Software Development:
- Successfully set up and tested CPR (and Crow). This setup forms the base for future REST API endpoints in the ATS backend.
September 29 - October 5, 2025
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday
- Legal Work & Research:
- Worked on more legal stuff regarding CPRA, court case preparation and litigation. :P
Friday
- Attributive Tree System (ATS) — Software Development:
- Confirmed that the database software is only accessible from within my server, ensuring it remains private and secure — the outside world will communicate exclusively through the API layer.
- Created a dedicated testing database for the ATS.
- Selected Crow, a lightweight C++ web framework, to build the REST API that will expose ATS functionality.
- Chose CPR, a modern C++ HTTP client, to enable the backend API to communicate with external web-based services and other API-first systems.
Side Note:
- Im intentionally keeping the specific database software unnamed in these entries.
Sept 19 | Sept 22 - Sept 28, 2025
Unknown Work Days
- Dev Diary (Article Section)
- The Calm Before The Storm
- Completed the revision of the article's written portions.
- Need to work on the imagery next.
Unknown Work Days
- Legal Work & Research:
- Worked on more legal stuff regarding CPRA, court case preparation and litigation. :P
Both Fridays
- Attributive Tree System (ATS) Software Development:
- Continued to learn more about REST API and React.
- Created a new subdomain for the API.
- Installed two of the core database software on my VPS. >:)
Side Note:
- I need to remember to log the work I’ve done each day! :D
Aug 25 - Aug 31 | Sept 8 - Sept 14, 2025
Unknown Work Days
- Legal Work & Research:
- Focused on CPRA, civil case preparation and litigation.
Friday, Sunday
- Workflow Analysis:
- Continuing to read Mastery, by Robert Greene.
- Attributive Tree System (ATS) Software Development:
- Drafted an approach to developing the ATS, considering time, limited budget and resources.
- Learning about REST API and React.
August 18 - August 24, 2025
Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday
- Legal Work & Research:
- Continuing to work on and learn about the CPRA; case law; and other legal/court stuff. :P
Saturday, Sunday
- Workflow Analysis:
- Currently reading Mastery, by Robert Greene. Let's see if this book can help me be more productive. >:)
August 4 - August 10, 2025
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Sunday
- Legal Work & Research:
- Learned about and worked on a Writ of Mandate and other legal stuff.
Thursday, Friday, Sunday
- Dev Diary (Article Section)
- The Calm Before The Storm
- Continued reviewing and revising article alongside GenAI.
Side Note:
- I didn't make the changes regarding my workflow schedule, but I still did better this week.
July 21 - July 27, 2025
Tuesday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday
- Dev Diary (Article Section):
- The Calm Before The Storm
- Still reviewing article with GenAI.
- Attributive Tree System (ATS) Software Development:
- Reviewing tutorials and documentations of geospatial software to be integrated with the ATS.
- Conceptualizing the system architecture diagram, which includes logical/application layers, infrastructure components, network topology, etc.
Side Note:
- Im still experiencing a severe case of burnout. Im curious if the summer season is primarily causing this. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
- Im going to change up my schedule and start working on Existential and my novel in the same week to see if this increases productivity in both areas.
July 7 - July 13, 2025
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday
- Attributive Tree System (ATS) — Software Development:
- Scetched some visual concepts and generated code of the user interface.
Saturday/Sunday
- Dev Diary (Article Section):
- The Calm Before The Storm
- Reviewing article with GenAI.
Side Note:
- Struggling with burnout. Gotta' keep pushing myself!
June 23 - June 29, 2025
Monday/Tuesday/Wednesday/Thursday/Friday/Saturday/Sunday
- Dev Diary (Article Section):
- The Calm Before The Storm
- Fieldnotes (Article Section):
- Tulare County's Attribution (Part I): Modernity
- Outreach (Article Section):
- Branching Out
- Draft essentially finished.
- Being reviewed by GenAI.
Wednesday/Thursday/Friday
- Workflow Analysis
- Figuring out ways to increase productivity, and streamline/automate tasks.
Sunday
- Attributive Tree System (ATS) Software Development:
- Further organizing Google Doc files.
June 9 - Jun 15, 2025
Monday/Tuesday
- Research & Data/Info Collection:
- Created an information request form titled Letter of Attribution.
Tuesday/Wednesday/Thursday
- Outreach (Article Section):
- Branching Out
- Revised and added content. Still not finished.
Thursday
- Culture, Policies, Compliance, and Governance:
Friday/Saturday/Sunday
- Attributive Tree System (ATS) Software Development:
- I finished dumping all of the contents of the database software's documentation into Google Doc files then linked the files to NotebookLM. Will continue to organize content as needed.
- Determining next tasks to focus on...
May 26 - Jun 1, 2025
Monday
- Outreach (Article Section):
- Branching Out
- Revised and added content. Still not finished.
Monday/Tuesday/Wednesday/Thursday
- Culture, Policies, Compliance, and Governance:
- To refresh my understanding of free will and determinism, I read Robert Sapolskys recent book Determined. His knowledge was mostly impactful to me years ago. This book, among many others, will provide valuable guidance for Existential (and my sci-fi novel series).
Friday/Saturday/Sunday
- Attributive Tree System (ATS) Software Development:
- I didnt realize how extensive the potential database software documentation is, and a part of me wants to speed things up. So Im straight dumping all the contentsincluding the parts I havent reviewedinto Google Doc files that will be linked to NotebookLM.
May 12 - May 18, 2025
Monday
- SysAdmin (Virtual Private Server):
- Roughly sub-categorized all server software/packages
Tuesday/Sunday
- Culture, Policies, Compliance, and Governance:
- Supporting tenet, ‘Deep Ecology, changed to, Environmentalism. This was done to encompass many values and approaches of environmentalism, which will still include a deep ecological aspect.
- Drafted two new company policies under 'Information Governance and Disclosure Policies':
- Public Information Publication Policy
- Needs to be thoroughly reviewed.
- Whistleblower and Disclosure Policy
- Needs to be thoroughly reviewed.
Tuesday/Wednesday/Thursday
- Dev Diary (Article Section):
- The Calm Before The Storm
- Pre-Final draft complete.
- Under external review.
- Fieldnotes (Article Section):
- Tulare County's Attribution (Part I): Modernity
- Pre-Final draft complete.
- Under external review.
- Tulare County's Attribution (Part II): The Animal & The Machine
- Sub-title of this article renamed may change again.
- Outreach (Article Section):
- Branching Out
- Revised and added content. Still not finished.
Friday/Saturday/Sunday
- Attributive Tree System (ATS) Software Development:
- Continuing to review official documentation, as well as taking notes and having conversations with GenAI regarding the potential database system software.
April 28 - May 4, 2025
Monday
- SysAdmin (Virtual Private Server):
- Roughly sub-categorized 300 of 520 server software/packages.
Tuesday/Wednesday/Thursday
- Dev Diary (Article Section):
- The Calm Before The Storm
- Fieldnotes (Article Section):
- Tulare County's Attribution (Part I): Modernity
- Reviewed, polished, removed/added content.
- Outreach (Article Section):
Friday/Saturday/Sunday
- Attributive Tree System (ATS) Software Development:
- Continuing to review official documentation, as well as taking notes and having conversations with GenAI regarding the potential database system software.
- Now using NotebookLM for a more organized and more efficient way of information comprehension and retrieval regarding the potential database system software.
- This database software still seems to look promising for the type of information system I want to create.
April 14 - April 20, 2025
Tuesday/Wednesday
- Dev Diary (Article Section):
- The Calm Before The Storm
- Reviewed, polished, removed/added content
- Current Word Count: 1,900
- Nearly complete need to add some info related to project tasks that are not yet completed
- Fieldnotes (Article Section):
- Tulare County's Attribution (Part I): Modernity
- Reviewed, polished, removed/added content
- Current Word Count: 3,629
- Transferred some content to 'The Calm Before The Storm'
- Nearly complete needs some more content and further polish before external review
- Tulare County's Attribution (Part II): Deep Ecology & The Machine
- Changed subtitle from 'Deep Ecology' to 'Deep Ecology & The Machine'
- Outreach (Article Section):
- Branching Out
- Reviewed, polished, removed/added content
- Transferred some content to 'The Calm Before The Storm'
- Current Word Count: 1,132
- Incomplete
- Added sections: 'Intro to Deep Ecology', and 'Intro to Radical Transparency'
Thursday/Friday
- Art & Design:
- Project/Business
- Creating logo for Existential (similar to a company logo from my sci-fi novel/world :P)
- Official Website/CMS
- Still creating new design and animation for the navigation menu
- Learning about code within an SVG file (representing the visuals for the navigation menu) and how to go about manipulating its path data
- Temporary 'Under Construction' Page
- Created a second box section that roughly indicates the progress of the project
- SysAdmin (Virtual Private Server):
- Made sub-categories of (around) 200/520 software/packages that are installed on my server
Saturday/Sunday
- Attributive Tree System (ATS) Software Development:
- Continuing to review official documentation, as well as taking notes and having conversations with GenAI regarding the potential database system software
- Created spreadsheet for database terms and their meanings, as well as real-world examples for each
March 31 - April 6, 2025
Tuesday
- SysAdmin (Virtual Private Server):
- All 520 software/packages on new server OS categorized (roughly) in a spreadsheet
Wednesday/Thursday
- Fieldnotes (Article Section):
- Tulare Countys Attribution (Part I): Modernity
- Subsegment 'Law & Order' is essentially complete; needs polishing
Friday
- Website Design:
- Created a basic log/portfolio section beneath 'Currently Under Construction' on the primary domain.
- Commented out the portfolio section; still creating my portfolio (locally)
Saturday/Sunday
- Attributive Tree System (ATS) Software Development:
- Completed another course on the potential database system software
- Continuing to review official documentation, take notes, and learn via GenAI discussions
- Researching how a Large Language Model (LLM) could integrate with the ATS:
- Determining which model to fine-tune/train
- Determining which cloud GPU provider to use