Or, how to build from materials on hand the instruction manual I need in order to observe Halley's Comet in 2061
Specifically, how to have enough money to pay my way as long as I need to, through making money and building on what I make through investing
In other words, how to stay alive at least 35 more years, how to still be independently mobile by then, and how to still be in my right mind
Now I have to connect the dots from those to:
Which is to say institutions in my mind, for helping to organize thinking - not institutions for containing it
Photography
Astrophotography
Seeing Halley's Comet a second time in 2061
Sailboats
Boat building
Ship building
Ship design
Large format cameras
Diesel engines
Naval war gaming
Lighthouses
The Pacific Northwest
The coastal Southeast
Metal working, particularly with machine tools (lathes, Mills, etc)
Architectural watercolor painting
Drafting and computer drafting
3D modeling, in physical miniatures and CAD
modern survival and prepping
Personal firearms
Home renovation
That strange tension between two things that contradict yet have an unexpected commonality
Espresso
Home brewed beer and fermented wine and mead
Beekeeping, particularly in home-made hives and top-bar hives
Home vegetable gardening
Rainwater collection
Hydroponics / aquaculture
Life during inflationary times
Graphic design, specifically rigorous and precise graphic design on cartographic themes
Low-carb nutrition
physical conditioning through resistance training and endurance sports
Recovering from injury and personal setbacks
Travel
Camping
Reading
Learning through the Trivium and quadrivium
History
Stoicism but with humor