The Jack of All Trades
We are told to specialize. To pick a lane. To find a niche. But for some of us, that feels like a lobotomy.
"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects." — Robert A. Heinlein
The Monorepo of the Mind
I built Ryocantsleep not just as a portfolio, but as a framework for my own sanity.
Instead of suppressing my interests in hacking, film, math, and design, I compartmentalized them. Each persona is a specialized container (an app in the monorepo), but they all feed into the same core database (me).
System Architecture
- Core (Ryocantsleep): The orchestrator.
- Modules (Hack, Design, etc.): The execution layers.
- Shared Libs: The skills that transfer (discipline, logic, creativity).
By structuring my life like a distributed system, I avoid the bottleneck of boredom.