I think it’d be cool to have some place where people can talk and share ideas and cool information they’ve come across. The easy way for this would be Discord, which I’m not fully banning as a possibility, but I’d like to go a different way, as their company differs too much from my personal values. So it might be some kind of forum on here, or perhaps with its own Matrix server. But setting this up (especially a forum) would require quite a bit of effort, perhaps the support from a developer or two, then perhaps some voluntary or even paid support and moderation team, and maybe legal advice for a privacy policy, as I’d be storing user data at that point. So while the idea is cool, I’d want to do it right and do more than set up a Discord server.

I’d probably tear up when my own project would get big enough to support others. I’d like to support FOSS projects like the Linux Foundation or the teams behind lots of packages that are the backbone of any Linux-based operating system. I’d be just as proud to support projects fighting for human rights, climate change, or child safety. If this blog ever reaches that point, I’ll try to figure out a way to ask the readers what they’d like as well.

Awfully cliché, but I’d like to write a book eventually. Not now, not in the near future, but perhaps someday. One with the same spirit that drives this blog: Gather lots of information, organize it, add a narrative, and make it accessible. Since the revenue of this blog would be enough to support my own life by then (see 3.), I could write the book without any attempt at making a profit. While selling physical copies would be surreal, I’d make it publicly available here as well (hoping whatever publisher I might be working with would allow that; I have no idea). I even had the idea of some “buy one, sponsor one” concept. Printing costs can get down to like ~4€/book. I have no clue how much the per-book cost for marketing, logistics, and whatever would be, but it’d be really cool if there was some way to, e.g., sell a copy for 15€-20€ and then provide an option where people can apply for a free copy. I don’t know how much sense this makes, as there might be a free digital copy available for download here anyway. Being someone who both frequently reads eBooks and physical ones, there is a difference. And it’d just be cool, wouldn’t it? Maybe that’s something that could be financed through possible future affiliate revenue as well.

I’ll probably be doing this all by myself for at least a while, maybe forever. But depending on how this blog develops, a small team could be useful. After all, there might be more people like me who’d like to join this project and make knowledge more accessible and actionable. So this would really just be a multiplier for point 3.

This might sound a bit weird, but assume that I’d create some legal body around sediment in the future and use it to invest. Then sediment would get an additional stream of income, making it less dependent on affiliate programs. It’d liberate the entire project and grant more freedom. Assuming that operating costs would be 2.000€/month and I got a 5.000€/month payout (though I might lower it to necessities only), monthly expenses would be ~7.000€. Following the 4% rule, at annual expenses of 84.000€, I’d need an investment portfolio worth 2.1 million. Yeah… that’s a lot. But not impossible. And I’m here for the long run, so who knows what’ll happen. This is all about future-proofing. And 4% is quite conservative in my opinion, so who knows?

This is probably the most ambitious of all, but I’ve been frustrated with the current state of the school system for quite a while and fancy the idea of creating my own school, where students will learn regular school stuff + actually useful things. They’d learn how to learn, how to be financially responsible, how taxes work, how to cook healthy for themselves, and so on. This is a super-super future and fantasy thought, but that’s what this list is for. It’d have to be a private school, but I’d try making it as accessible as possible. Even a family relying on welfare should be able to afford sending 4 children to this school. I can’t tell you how it’d work yet (perhaps donations from the sediment blog, school donations, or cross-financing), but this is the future list. Just some rough ideas. 🙂