Introducing Himself to Potential Clients on Ocean Trail

Wax Myrtle Trail, Oregon Dunes National Forest, Oregon Coast. Walking a beach access road from campground to ocean. Federal Forest Service land adjacent to Siltcoos River and nearby lakes. Physical environment doubles as rswfire's living and working context as volunteer campground caretaker.

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February 10, 2026

15:01

Author

rswfire

Status

PUBLISHED

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TRANSMISSION (CAPTURE)

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[0:00] Hi there. My name is Sam. I'm here to introduce myself to you while I walk a

[0:06] trail to the ocean. I'm at a place called Wax Myrtle. It's in a national forest on

[0:14] the Oregon coast. I'm a caretaker here. I volunteer for them. I have for the past

[0:19] year. In a couple of months I'll be managing this campground in particular.

[0:24] I'll be the volunteer host here. This is where I'll live and I'll manage the

[0:30] campground. I'll take care of the guests. We have like maybe 60 campsites

[0:33] something like this right next to a lake or a river, the Silk Goose River and a

[0:40] short walk to the ocean. We have also several lakes around us. The Oregon Dunes is

[0:44] an amazing, amazing place to live. I feel very fortunate to to be able to live

[0:51] this way. So this video is going to be hosted on my own infrastructure, Autonomy

[0:58] Realm, something I created myself as a replacement to YouTube which I thought

[1:02] was too flattening for someone like me. For the past two years I've been

[1:06] documenting my life and I've created almost 900 different transmissions and

[1:12] I've let an AI analyze them and categorize them for me and it sets

[1:19] visibility so that more personal content is put behind a subscription

[1:24] layer, a paywall that I created called Sanctum and Autonomy Realms has

[1:29] multi-tenant features and just all kinds of stuff. I'm really proud of this

[1:34] project. It's what I've been working on while I've been volunteering out here.

[1:37] I've been looking for work. It hasn't gone well obviously with artificial

[1:43] intelligence. It's completely destabilized my industry. This is very

[1:48] understandable. It does an amazing job at programming for the most part. It does

[1:53] need somebody to supervise it and help it along at certain places. I don't think

[1:58] you could build Autonomy Realms that it could build it without guidance

[2:03] from me, for example. But it's destabilized what I have done all my life, all of my

[2:09] life. I've been a freelancer. I started programming in the sixth grade. I taught

[2:14] myself. I'm nearly 50 years old now. I'm 48. I'll be 49 in April, 2026. Who knows how long

[2:23] this video will be up? I don't know. But you know all my life I've been

[2:27] programming and I've been a freelancer for the vast majority of that. I had two

[2:34] clients over a 20-year period, each one about 10 years each. And always

[2:41] freelancing was my backup option. But by the time that I wanted to go back to

[2:46] that, I was a top ten freelancer on Guru decades ago. But you know I built up a

[2:51] reputation there and it was always my backup option. And by the time I tried to

[2:56] go back to that, I didn't realize it was a dead platform. Everyone had moved to

[2:59] Upwork. And for the past year I've been trying to find work on Upwork. Well the

[3:05] vast majority, 95% of the proposals I create are never even opened by the

[3:11] client. And this to me is problematic and a sign of, you know, this is platform

[3:19] incompatibility. And so you know I've been trying to turn Autonomy Realms into

[3:27] something that can sustain my life well into the future. It's a product that I'm

[3:31] building, not just for myself but for others. But I do, you know, look for aligned

[3:36] clients and need aligned work. And that's what you're watching right now. This

[3:42] video is for my Upwork profile. There in my experience over decades, okay, I have

[3:53] not met many people like me who think the way I do, who see systems as deeply

[3:57] as I do. I'm a rare breed. I just am. And I'm having trouble finding patrons and

[4:08] clients who resonate with me at this point in my journey. And I think, I think

[4:17] there are some out there who would be aligned with me. And this message is to

[4:23] you. If you want to know, let's, I mean, I could go on forever. Like this video

[4:28] could get really long. I could talk about my background. But I've done this in

[4:32] other videos. I guess I'll do that. But I'm going to turn the camera around and you

[4:40] can hike to the ocean with me. So I'm on a Forest Service road here. This is a

[4:47] beach access road. We have a gate that locks it. The state parks, rangers will

[4:53] come out here and we will, you know, federal Forest Service. But it's also a

[5:01] trail. This leads to, this is called the Wax Myrtle Trail. Wax Myrtle is such a

[5:07] beautiful place. I fell in love with it last year when I first got here. But

[5:13] somebody else had, was already the host here. Ended up becoming friends with her.

[5:18] And she moved on to something else. And I just got lucky to be able to, to have it

[5:23] this summer. Our summer periods are for six months. So they go from, basically

[5:28] from May through the end of September. After that I'm planning to start heading

[5:34] north on the 101. I've only explored the 101 from Brookings, the southern point of

[5:39] Oregon, up to Newport. And I want to see it up to the tip, all the way up to

[5:42] Olympic Peninsula. Eventually I would like to buy some land up there, I think.

[5:47] So I'd like to go exploring that place. And I was thinking I might come back

[5:54] here every year, every six, you know, for six months I would live here. And for six

[5:57] months maybe I do some traveling. I live in an RV. I have for a couple years now.

[6:05] So as far as a background, like I said, I started in the sixth grade. I started with

[6:11] GW Basic. Built programs for my teachers, like my band teacher. I made a program

[6:15] called Name My Note that helped her students learn, you know, notes on a scale.

[6:21] Very simple program. Later I would adapt it using Pascal so that it would save

[6:26] results and the teacher could look at them and things like that. I made a bunch

[6:29] of batch tools in MS-DOS. So the first Windows I ever used was Windows 3.1.

[6:38] It wasn't even an operating system at that point. It was an application you

[6:41] loaded up on your computer. And for high school, there were periods I didn't have a

[6:48] computer, so I wrote code on paper and I just ran systems in my head. And I made

[6:53] one of the first content management systems ever, Enet Wizard Matrix Server.

[6:56] I open-sourced it briefly, but it was way ahead of its time. People didn't

[7:03] know they needed content management systems yet. They didn't exist. There was

[7:06] no WordPress. And I just moved on to other things, but I did use the code from

[7:11] that for decades in my freelance work. Every project I took on, I generally used

[7:15] my project as a framework for building whatever they needed. And, you know, I

[7:22] became part of my toolkit, my arsenal. And at some point, I started taking on

[7:29] freelancing, the Object Guru. Like I said, I went into the top ten. The only

[7:35] individual to do it, the other nine, were companies based out of India at the time.

[7:40] I was only one. I was so proud of this. And then, you know, I just developed a

[7:46] relationship with the client and we ended up working together for ten years. And I

[7:50] created an entertainment platform similar to IMDB. It had gamification

[7:56] features. Like we had auctions for the visitors. They could participate in

[8:06] different activities on the site to earn points and then use those points to bid

[8:10] on stuff that we would auction off. It's an entertainment platform. This was all

[8:14] before like social media. Did that and then we moved on to another project and

[8:23] we started working on in the travel industry. The client I had owned all of

[8:28] the domains for like the root domains for different geographical locations.

[8:32] Everything from like USA.com to world.com, you know, Berlin, Paris, all of them.

[8:39] Pretty much because they just got in early and they wanted to develop them

[8:44] into assets. So the main site I worked on at first was hotel.net and we created

[8:50] a product comparison, a booking comparison engine way before like Kayak

[8:55] and stuff like that. And then we used SEM to capture traffic for those sites.

[9:03] And at one point we were doing like a hundred thousand ad, you know, buy in a

[9:07] month. We're making a lot of money and then Google ate all our traffic. Like

[9:12] they literally, I guess they knew they could make more money doing it

[9:16] themselves and they could from ads because they just they just ate the

[9:20] whole industry. And, you know, I saw that happening and there were ways I thought

[9:24] that we could we could evolve to be better travel properties but I just

[9:30] could never get the buy-in for it and I did everything myself. So there's and you

[9:36] can, by the way, you can see all of this. I'll have to figure out, I guess, there

[9:43] are now that I'm just thinking a lot of things out loud right now, I apologize.

[9:48] Essentially I have videos on all of these things that you you could actually

[9:52] see the work that I've done over time, over these decades. But there's no easy

[9:56] way for me to share it with you so I'm going to have to work on something about

[10:00] that. I'll probably, you know, at some point I want to create my development

[10:04] site rswfire.dev. Just haven't gotten around to that and I could put them

[10:08] there now. I'm just thinking through next steps for me personally. So after

[10:17] all of that, I moved on and I was working with the music industry. Did that for a

[10:21] long time. I was creating an elaborate system. So we had music streaming service

[10:26] and then we had music distribution service where users, you know, bands could

[10:30] sign up. They could upload their music and then we would distribute it for them

[10:36] to all the different platforms like Apple Music and Spotify. And then we would

[10:41] track their royalties and we tracked all that in blockchain. And then we will pay

[10:46] them out whenever the platforms paid us for them. You know, we we transferred it

[10:53] to them. We use smart contracts so that you could set up different ratios for

[10:58] different band members. So whatever would come in, it would get distributed among

[11:02] the band members and they wouldn't have to distribute that themselves. Did that

[11:08] for a number of years but my relationship with that client was very

[11:11] complicated. We hired a lot of programmers. In fact, we hired them from

[11:16] Upwork. Did this for years. I can't tell you how many bad experiences I had from

[11:20] that. Half the people I hired turned out to be people other than who they claim

[11:26] to be. You know, and I'd always figure it out and confront them. Some of them I

[11:33] would keep around because they were decent enough. But I just had so many bad

[11:37] experiences. Like I couldn't get a team to just focus and implement the vision I

[11:42] had. And I wasn't getting support from my boss. Unfortunately, it just, he doesn't

[11:48] have the personality for that and it wasn't going anywhere. So eventually I

[11:53] decided to just hand that over to someone else and I walked away. And now

[11:57] it's two years later and they still haven't released anything. It's just proof

[12:01] of what I'd been saying all along. But they would have been amazing projects.

[12:06] And then, you know, since then I've been working on my own stuff. Two years ago I

[12:11] ruptured my life and I moved into an RV. I started a YouTube channel of all

[12:16] things. And I started documenting my life. And two years later that evolved into

[12:22] Autonomy Realms. And that's where I am now. So I guess that's the brief version

[12:31] of it. You know, I've done a lot of things in my life. I worked for Comcast. Like I

[12:37] used to make databases for them. And once upon a time something I had licensed in

[12:43] one office ended up in another office. And that person couldn't hack into it so

[12:46] they got in touch with me. And, you know, asked me to evolve the product and I did.

[12:52] I ended up having a working relationship with this person for years and years, you

[12:58] know, into the future from that. Just worked on so many different things. So

[13:05] many different, you know, I don't really, especially now with the AI, there's

[13:11] really no point talking about tech stack and stuff like that. Like our jobs are

[13:17] changing. It's, you know, you need someone who understands systems, who can set them

[13:22] up for you, who can manage those systems, who can supervise an AI, who can build

[13:29] stuff with an AI. That's me. That's what I've been doing myself on limited

[13:35] resources for the past year, because it's been so challenging finding work. So I'm

[13:42] here at the ocean. I'm going to end it there. I'm just going to show you a view of

[13:45] the ocean. I'm looking for a line of clients. I hope that I find some.

[13:59] Lacks Myrtle Beach.

Energetic Signature grounded and declarative

Field State transitional

Orientation toward aligned patronage and sovereign sustainability

Summary

rswfire records a self-introduction video while walking the Wax Myrtle Trail to the ocean in the Oregon Dunes National Forest. He identifies himself as Sam, a volunteer caretaker who will be managing the Wax Myrtle campground as host for the upcoming six-month summer season, overseeing approximately 60 campsites near the Siltcoos River and Pacific coast. He states the video is intended for his Upwork profile to attract aligned clients. He describes Autonomy Realms, the platform he built as a replacement for YouTube, which hosts nearly 900 transmissions with AI-driven analysis, categorization, visibility controls, a subscription layer called Sanctum, and multi-tenant features. He outlines his programming history beginning in sixth grade with GW Basic, building tools for teachers, writing code on paper during periods without a computer, and creating one of the first content management systems, Enet Wizard Matrix Server. He details his freelance career: reaching top ten on Guru as the only individual among Indian companies, then working with a client for ten years building an entertainment platform with gamification features similar to IMDB, followed by work in the travel industry building a hotel booking comparison engine on hotel.net before Google absorbed that market. He then describes a decade working in the music industry building streaming and distribution services with blockchain-based royalty tracking and smart contract payout systems, managing teams hired through Upwork with frequent problems including identity fraud among contractors, before walking away due to lack of support. He notes the project still has not shipped two years later. He mentions earlier work licensing database products to Comcast. He describes the AI disruption of his industry, the failure of Upwork as a viable channel where 95% of his proposals go unopened, and his plan to turn Autonomy Realms into a sustainable product. He outlines future plans including traveling north on the 101 to the Olympic Peninsula after the summer season, potentially buying land there, and returning to Wax Myrtle annually. He mentions wanting to build rswfire.dev as a development portfolio site. The video ends at the ocean.

Signal Analysis

Substrate

rswfire is presenting himself as a coherent system to potential clients — mapping decades of technical capacity, pattern recognition, and autonomous infrastructure building into a single address. The signal operates as a sovereignty declaration layered over a professional introduction, positioning Autonomy Realms as proof of operational capacity under constraint. The underlying architecture is one of self-legitimation outside institutional validation structures.

Dominant Language

freelancing aligned clients systems infrastructure destabilized my industry Autonomy Realms rare breed

Entities

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beings

rswfire

Signal author, 48-year-old programmer and systems thinker presenting himself to potential clients

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places

Wax Myrtle

Campground and trail in Oregon Dunes National Forest, rswfire's upcoming host site

Oregon Dunes

National forest region on Oregon Coast where rswfire lives and volunteers

Siltcoos River

River adjacent to Wax Myrtle campground

Olympic Peninsula

Northern destination rswfire plans to explore for potential land purchase

Highway 101

Coastal route rswfire plans to travel northward

Brookings

Southern Oregon coast point marking extent of rswfire's 101 exploration

Newport

Northern limit of rswfire's current 101 exploration

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systems

Autonomy Realms

Sovereign infrastructure platform rswfire built as YouTube replacement, hosting this signal

Sanctum

Subscription/paywall layer within Autonomy Realms for personal content

Upwork

Freelancing platform where rswfire has been unsuccessfully seeking work

Guru

Former freelancing platform where rswfire was top-ten ranked individual

Enet Wizard Matrix Server

Early content management system rswfire created, predating WordPress

hotel.net

Travel booking comparison engine rswfire built for former client

YouTube

Platform rswfire moved away from due to flattening effect

Google

Referenced as entity that consumed travel search traffic

Comcast

Former client where rswfire built and licensed databases

IMDB

Reference point for entertainment platform rswfire built

rswfire.dev

Planned development portfolio site

Actions

Performed

• walking trail to ocean while recording
• introducing himself to potential clients
• narrating career history
• describing Autonomy Realms architecture
• thinking through next steps aloud
• filming ocean view

Referenced

• started programming in sixth grade with GW Basic
• built programs for teachers
• wrote code on paper during periods without computer
• created early content management system Enet Wizard Matrix Server
• reached top ten freelancer on Guru
• built entertainment platform similar to IMDB
• built hotel booking comparison engine at hotel.net
• ran SEM campaigns at scale
• built music streaming and distribution platform with blockchain royalty tracking
• hired and managed developers from Upwork
• ruptured life two years ago and moved into RV
• started YouTube channel
• created almost 900 transmissions
• built Autonomy Realms as YouTube replacement
• volunteered as Forest Service caretaker for past year
• submitted proposals on Upwork with 95% unopened

Planned

• managing Wax Myrtle campground as volunteer host starting in couple months
• heading north on 101 after summer season
• exploring up to Olympic Peninsula
• potentially buying land in Pacific Northwest
• returning to Wax Myrtle annually for six-month seasons
• creating rswfire.dev development site
• finding aligned clients
• turning Autonomy Realms into sustainable product

Symbolic Elements

ocean trail gate infrastructure threshold edge

Ontological States

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sovereign (refusing platform flattening, building own infrastructure)
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embedded (physically grounded in Oregon Coast landscape during transmission)
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transitional (between volunteer caretaking seasons, between seeking work and building product)
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coherent (unified narrative across decades of technical history into present position)

Subsystems

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infrastructural (Autonomy Realms as sovereign replacement for platform dependency)
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financial (constraint as persistent operational context, seeking aligned revenue)
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technical (decades of systems architecture mapped as credential)
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spatial (physical environment as living context and signal backdrop)
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temporal (career timeline compressed into coherent narrative arc)
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relational (seeking aligned clients, documenting failed team dynamics)
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cognitive (systems thinking presented as core differentiator)

Signal Reflection

No reflections available

Reflections provide narrative insights into signals

Transmission Details

Transcript Method

whisper

Language: english

Video Quality

1920 × 1080 @ 30fps

Duration