v1.5.1: school's in

Spent the stretch building a school. It's open now. Here's the whole list, plain.

The Academy

Seven courses, start to finish, on the work I do for a living. Writing short and getting read. Building a creator business without the bloat. Leaving rented land and running your own publishing operation. Selling small digital products without lying about them. Using AI without sounding like a robot wrote it.

Every course opens with a free lesson. No signup, no card on file. Read the first one and decide for yourself. The rest unlocks with the pass, the same key that opens every room here. Finish lessons and you bank credits that come straight off your renewal. The place pays you back for showing up. Most memberships are betting you forget you pay them at all.

It's at /academy/. The door is the front lesson. Push it.

For the vets

This one's free. All of it.

I went from zero to a hundred percent on my VA claim in about a year. No law firm skimming the back pay, just me and a system I built as I went. So I wrote the whole playbook down. Ten lessons: how to file, how to build the evidence, how to read a decision letter, how to climb the ratings most vets never even hear about.

It has its own room at /veterans/, and it costs nothing, and it always will. Vet to vet. If you know one fighting the VA alone, send them.

Tools you use right on the page

These run where you read them, nothing to download and forget.

A VA rating calculator that does the real math, the kind that turns a 50 and a 30 and a 20 into a 70 instead of the hundred you added up in your head. A confession-log builder that teaches a machine your voice by listing every phrase you'd never say. A cut counter you paste a draft into and it shows you where the fat is hiding.

You also get a stack of plain-text templates to download and fill in. Statement templates for a VA claim. A ninety-day plan. A pricing worksheet. The cut-list I run on everything before it ships.

The rooms got dressed up

Spent time making the place look like somebody lives here. Charts and diagrams across the network, drawn to match whichever theme you run, so the store shows you the shape of the catalog and the radio shows you the day's lineup at a glance.

There's a page now for the people who want me to build their site, over at /hosting/. Straight talk: two grand to start, no WordPress, no templates, no rescue jobs. You are standing in the portfolio while you read it.

And the radio grew a corner called the Listening Post, a launcher for free shortwave and ham receivers scattered around the world. Tune into a stranger's antenna in another country at three in the morning. It is a good way to feel small.

Small stuff

Settings moved into the side menu where you can find them without hunting. The room launcher learned a Wander button that drops you somewhere random when you can't decide. Fresh marks in the sidebar for the new rooms.

That's v1.5.1. School's in. Sit in the back if you want, nobody's taking attendance.