Hi, I'm Guren/Jordan! ✌

Welcome to my site! This site is an accessory site to my Neocities website, which is hosted both there and here. I was born in 1994, had a Game Boy by 1998, and was using Windows 98 and the internet by 1999, so this computer stuff was kind of inevitable for me.

When I was in kindergarten I wrote in the yearbook that I wanted to be a "Game Boy player" when I grew up. I probably didn't expect that that was going to be a real career, though! And now it is. I stream on Twitch here. But also, since I was a teenager, I've been fascinated with Silicon Valley, how tech companies soar up the Fortune 500, and with the lives of programmers like John Carmack, Bill Gates, Steve Jobs/Wozniak, Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, etc. I go through that love-hate relationship with coding a lot, though, where programs refuse to work to such an extent that I stop coding for a year at a time. My favorite book is Masters of Doom. It shows the amazing things that can be made by sitting down and coding for 10 hours a day. I also like the book Coders by Clive Thompson. And I've been meaning to read Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution, by Steven Levy.

I'm currently on an unhealthy goal. I have $10,000 in my bank account. I lost my last 2 jobs. I'm going to do what Bill Gates did in 1970 and do nothing but code and sleep until I start making money from my computer. Read Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell if you want to hear about Bill Gates' origin story. He would sneak into his school's computer lab every night and code all night, every night. This was in like 1969, when TTY computers were hard to even find. I'll likely lose my savings in the process, but I want to try out this challenge. I will obsessively document my progress into numbered projects here, trying to be objectively fair about what is and isn't a code "project". Also, I have a YouTube channel, so I'll try to just get some 100,000 view videos in the next few months, because that would do it, too.

I believe that the computer gold rush is over, along with the Web 2.0 / startup gold rush, the dot-com gold rush, and the crypto gold rush. You should still buy Bitcoin and maybe learn programming, but it would've gotten you further back in 1990 or 2000 or 2010 than it will get you now.

Some say that if AI wipes out all of the jobs and does everything, the only jobs left will be being a content creator. So make sure that you work on your influencer chops. We might still be in the influencer gold rush. We're also still in the AI boom, although I think that that's a scam.

ChatGPT is impressive, and it does a great job helping with some obscure tasks sometimes, but it hallucinates constantly. Transhumanism is cool and all but I think that the AI thing is overhyped, and I don't think that robots will take over every job. Not even programming. So, learn some languages and work on some projects. And in the meantime, follow my progress on this website!