I build a Wiki about myself mostly for myself on the Wikipedia database structure as a journaling endvor. 5 years and a few popular resources guides later I’ve launched a public side of the Wiki which you’re reading now. Here you’ll find projects, resocues and some useful guides mostly about life but a few about being a good human.
An Intoduction to Spencer’s Worldview
Here’s a quick guide to my world view and how I engage with the world. Fair warning that these concusions change weekly
☸️ Spiritual
Raised in a Baptist family before moving to denominal protestant on the pastoral track. After a short summer of reconversion, I turned hard materialistic atheism before my medication practice lead me. Then to Korean Zen Buddhist, which included a few temple rescind programs, during which I understood whose power dynamics mixed with religious, leading me to secular buddhism, I found a bit stale so I add in a dash of new age philosophy after a few psychedelic trips.
I've got a sense of a personal ledger that I'm living out.
💻 Career
I’m addicted to finding and fixing problems, and enjoy the process more when it generates income. This is why I started my first business venture at 12 yo, which lead to back-to-back kid business, before partnering to join a political marketing business. After the 08 election cycle ended, I transferred to a wordpress web devlopment marketing business for a mainstreet business call Orange Cube Group.
That was fun and games until I learned most mainstreet business are broke, the website is ubiquitously disliked by the owners, and are a commodity. I wised up and became a full stack digital marketing firm for medical/tech startups with a staff, office, and foosball table.
Burnout hit hard. When a sliver of light opened, to join the Michigan SBDC as a full time business consultant, I sold off the current business.
Quickly learning I’d join the bureaucratic brainchild of higher education and the federal government, as the youngest consultant on record of the organization, I knew I didn’t fit in on a cultural level. Despite my age, I become the second highest ranking consultant in a business started in Michigan. As I wrote my resignation letter, the COVID-19 Pandemic descended. I knew I couldn’t leave the clientele relying on me.
The pandemic ended, I resigned March of 2022, joining DS as the Director of Operations, Marketing, and Product Owner of our app team with the director of systematizing the business for a first round of investment.
Social
As the "organizer" of my ever changing social group, I'm likely to be spending time with humans I find to be of a rare quality doing some sort of project.
Avoid pop culture, 🕹, 📺, 🏈.
🏋🏻♂️ Physical
Fat kids would be a good description of Spencer from 3-21. A job change and certification as a yoga instructor helped dropped 65 lbs, leaving me with an active workout regiment based on lifting and running.
💶 Financial
Budgeting, retirement planning, and a bit of investing has been seen a moral calling in my life, for many years. I bought my house with cash and drive a Toyota Yaris with manual windows.
Family
The oldest of two siblings, nearly all of my family lives in Michigan. While I care for my immediate biological family, I'm much closer with my chosen family.
Unwed and not unhappy about it.
🧑🏻🏫 Intellectual
Intellectual endeavors fascinate me and likely are my hobby. I'm constantly listening to and reading several books, subscribed to a slew of podcasts, and attend lectures for the pleasure of learning.
If find Intellectual expansion to be both a means and an ends.
Curiosity
I'm learning from Rob Bell that curiosity is an underlying force of a life. Here's a growing list of what I've found inherently compelling .
Hobby
Projects and intellectual pursuits are my hobbies. That might be permaculture one week, making ramen noodles from scratch, a research project on effective app Search optimization, and replacing my roof to round out the month.
It's an ever changing panoply of activities and adventures