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Living

🌦️ I’m currently at home on the rainy and not so sunny Sunshine Coast in British Columbia, Canada and leaning into my word of the year for 2024: Expressive.

Creating

🎹 Currently working on internal business operations and spending my free time learning how to make dance music with Ableton, a Roland JD-Xi, and an Akai APC64.

Learning

  • Developing my decision-making principles in Art of Accomplishment's Great Decisions Course.
  • Studying 日本語 (Japanese) using Duolingo for the kana and NativShark for the conversations. Also discovered an amazing local study group where we get to speak and practice Japanese with other learners once a week. More on my learning stack here.
  • Reading Erik Davis' brilliant text High Weirdness (with copious use of a dictionary and GPTs to help refine my understanding).
  • Reading Looby Macnamara's People & Permaculture.
  • Learning Laravel through the Bootcamp with a focus in Serverless Laravel.

Listening

Find my songs on SoundCloud, mixes on Mixcloud, and follow me on Spotify

Playing

Follow me on Playstation/Xbox/Steam -> BenRautha

Cyberpunk 2077

Cyberpunk 2077 (PS5)

Baldur's Gate III

Baldur's Gate III (PS5)