I'm giving away 4 years of work.
For free. For everyone. On purpose.
Where it started
This began as a personal mission.
A few years ago I decided I wanted to become genuinely good at one hard thing — to pick something I loved and go deep enough to actually become an expert in it. For me, that was robotics.
So I gave myself a goal big enough to force the growth: build a robot capable of filming the projects, interests, and endeavors I'd take on for the rest of my life. Not a gadget — a real, expandable system that could grow into whatever I needed.
Four years later, It’s finished. The first job is the simplest one I could give it: moving a camera. The software, though, I didn't write alone — I built its brains with AI. And that's the part that changed how I think about all of it.
The Belief
AI is the inheritance of all of us.
Every teacher, researcher, and builder who ever added to what we know — AI is the sum of that work, handed forward. So the moment it becomes the engine of what you create, the result stops being yours alone.
I think that calls for a new way of doing things. Call it Open Inheritance: you build in the open, you give what you create back to the commons — and the community rewards you in proportion to the value it turns out to create for everyone.
No patents. No locks. Reward earned through real usefulness instead of artificial scarcity. I think it's up to engineers and creators to start setting that example — and I'd rather be early than right on time.
Why it matters
We've seen this before.
When personal computers landed in millions of hands, no one could have predicted everything that followed — whole industries, art forms, and tools dreamed up by ordinary people who just figured out their own use for the machine.
AI is that same kind of moment. The capability is already here. People only need to find their own way to use it — and the more it's shared, the more gets built.
The Bet
Honestly? It starts with you.
Early support means everything for a project like this — way more than it does once something's already up and running. The people who show up before there's any proof are the ones who actually make it possible.
So here's how I want to do it. When you contribute, your name goes up on the wall — and you can make it whatever you want. Your name, your handle, your business, a message, sized to what you put in. Part thank-you, part something I think could become a whole new kind of advertising: honest, opt-in, and tied to actually supporting something instead of interrupting it. So if you're a business — or anyone who wants to get in front of people through what I'm doing — this is the place to start.
And the first hundred people to back this become the Founding 100 — their names go up in gold and stay gold, permanently, no matter how big the wall gets later. You only have to jump in once to claim your spot. After that, you can add to your contribution any time to make your name grow.
Down the road I'll probably look into sponsorships and other arrangements. But for now, my days are better spent doing the work and getting it into people's hands than chasing business deals. This keeps it simple: I get supported, supporters get recognized, companies get to advertise. One model that serves everyone.
I'm trying to set an example here — that this can really work. That you can give your work away for free and still be provided for, by people who simply choose to back what you're doing.
Call it a bet. I think generosity comes back around to the people who lead with it — and I'm placing that bet on you.
Intentionism
None of this happened by accident.
It came from doing things deliberately — choosing the work, protecting the focus, and staying on a road I could have left years ago. That's what Intentionism is: the mindset that made everything else possible.
I don't claim to have it all figured out. I'm just convinced it's better to set an example than to wait for permission. And this same mindset can be applied to anything.
If that's a world you'd want to help build, you're already part of it.