Ideas are a dime a dozen. They come and ago, but there are a handful that are so potent they move me forever.

And it's those very ideas that also happen to be connected in a roundabout fashion, ideas I keep returning to. Of course.

Every such idea is an island unto itself. I built PerillaCove to join those islands into a world ... a world that approaches total clarity and completeness. This is my top priority.

Best of all worlds

I appreciate life too much to be boxed into a niche of any kind.

At the purest level, I've come to find there are no full-blown trade-offs. No, the best of this and the best of that can co-exist, yes, but also feed off and reinforce one another.

The most delicious foods are also what is best for my body. My work is play. Writing, going for an exploratory stroll, and building software ... these are some of the most riveting games to me.

I see that different worlds, even so-called opposites, are folded into one another. The balance ... is already baked in. Motion carries rest, nourishment carries lightness, and vice versa. Nature builds while it clears, and it clears while it builds.

Today’s meal is the tastiest thing I've eaten all week and it’s also what my body was asking for. What I call integrated gastronomy.

My play sharpens my craft, my craft funds my life, my life deepens my play. To live out my destiny and nothing else ... why put up with any less?

I'm not in the business of making grand plans or predicting the future. I don't have time for anything other than heartbeat-of-the-moment necessity. PerillaCove is my vessel for exploration and experimentation.

The Cove

Inelegance cannot stand the test of time.

I feel that everything true and real must somehow fit into the larger picture because ... it can't be any other way.

Society, on the flip side, is built on fake structures ... like corporatism and mortgages. I’m neither a gladiator nor a spectator. I just visit the colosseum on occasion and take notes.

But nature is my blueprint.

The Cove below is one such instantiation of nature. It is a conceptual goldilocks zone where seemingly-distinct flows and structures coalesce and create the conditions for a wide variety of life to thrive.

The cove

Step into the Cove and see that durian catches the strongest light and softens what passes through for understory cacao that turns that light into pods and leaf fall. Cows harness the surplus growth and return its nutrients, concentrated, where roots are waiting. Waste approaches zero.

The Cove above is a work in progress, but in nature, there is a total harnessing yet flux; it’s what I call a flawless turnover, where, integration is immanent. And within the integration are connections so forged in Fire that the additions required to further complete the system become vanishingly small.

Everything just fits and ... gets richer, yet lighter, over time.

My arena

PerillaCove is the first thing I’ve built for myself that I enjoy using more than any alternative. Actually there is no alternative. And I've got many ideas in an island of mine called 'Vault' that I'm excited to soon integrate.

Nothing orients my mind like crafting, connecting, and refining PerillaCove islands. It's vital to me that I spend my days deeply immersed in things of my choosing.

Lastly, this being my arena, it's not enough that it 'just works'.

I think design is everything. But so is architecture. As well as flow, structure, taste, integration, quality, and inspiration. I'm about the total package.

A multitude of apparently-unrelated passions and skills throughout my life ... this is what I find myself summoning and employing while building this. And something about all this just feels right.