Introducing Wo'O Ideafarm
---- Harold Shinsato, 2007 ----
---- Kelsey Williams, Stanford Journalism, 2010 ----
---- Wo'O Ideafarm, 2015 ----
Sometimes, what is possibly true is more important than what is true. Scenario: You are walking along on a busy city sidewalk, and you hear someone close by shout, "He's got a gun!". Do you ignore the warning as impossible? Do you stop and look around to see whether it is true? No, and no. You will immediately duck or run for cover behind anything that might stop a bullet. On this page, I introduce myself. On the next page, I will figuratively shout, "He's got a gun!", and then invite you to act, not on a fact, but on a possibility.
Unlike most content on today's Internet, IDEAFARM.COM does not entertain you with click-bait to generate advertising revenue. I am much older now, in 2026, than I was in the videos above. The first 30 seconds of the first video reveals the mission and vision that motivated a high risk, ambitious 35 year software craftwork project. That craftwork was successful, so I am now ready to present what I have built for the benefit of all young people, worldwide.
I am a wanderer. To benefit from what I have built for you, you will need to trust me, not with your money, but with one of your personal computers. The 1/2 million lines of C++ software code comprise, AFAIK, the first and only "piggyback operating system" ever crafted, and the first operating system ever crafted by a homeless person. To access the "paid subscriber only" portion of IDEAFARM.COM, you must be willing to run a custom program that my servers will email to you.
You can still do this even if you aren't willing to trust me. Just grab some old laptop that you never use any more, delete any passwords or other confidential files, and use it only for my software. Or, just purchase a cheap laptop and use that. Keep the email as proof that the IDEAFARM.COM servers emailed the software to you. If it ever does anything evil, consult with an attorney about suing my ass in a class action; you would both be able to get rich.
You can easily investigate whether I am "for real". Since I want to persuade you to trust me, I have begun by presenting myself in the above videos. For more biographical information about me, including additional identity verification links, click "about" at top left of any page. I do not waste my time with social media, but if you spend a few minutes on my YouTube channel, you will see that I am "for real". I'm no Jack Reacher, but if you like that fantasy "homeless Batman" superhero, you will enjoy some of the videos.
These "reality action" bodycam videos, none of which were staged, reveal what kind of man I am. All of the incidents were in the Oakland, California area, either in downtown Oakland or in the City of Alameda. In the years indicated, I was active as a "street speaker". Those were the violent and chaotic George Floyd, Antifa, and "Trump Derangement Syndrome" years. Street speakers can be magnets for all of the local nutcases. I was normally armed with a dagger and tear gas, and sometimes also with body armor and a shield:
In life, experience is everything. IDEAFARM.COM offers an early look at new technology and early involvement in a community effort to empower "We The People" worldwide. But the technology and the action plan are just vehicles for delivering what I am really offering, which is my 1/2 century of adult life experience, distilled and packaged to guide you so that you don't need to "reinvent the wheel". Most people are products either of a broken home or of a secure, loving, nurturing home; I am a product of both, due to the timing of events. Very few people my age had the opportunity to get the formal education ("Ph.D. Lite", economics) that I received, and, due to cultural change, that kind of education is no longer available to anyone. That kind of formal education opens the doors to privilege, and I am familiar, as few men are, with the "halls of power", having worked as an intern in Washington, D.C. I have not lived a life of privilege, not because I did not have opportunity, but because I "dropped out" in disgust.
When I was 19, working as an apprentice embalmer, deputy coroner, and mortician, I thought deeply about death, and what is important in life. When I speak about the predatory nature of dating ("getting laid", "catching a man"), I am speaking from experience; my wife literally caught me with her pussy, as if I was a fish biting a baited hook. At age 20, on my wedding night, I asked my new wife, "What is love?", and spent the next 50 years searching for, and eventually finding, an answer. When my marriage failed after 17 years, I realized that I had not formed properly as a man, and hit the road as a wanderer, searching for manhood, and finding it at construction sites and on streets throughout America. My own father had lost his dad when he was 14, so he could not pass on the basics of manhood to me because he had never learned them himself. Most of what I know about being a man, I learned, not from my father, but from construction men and, in particular, from Black American men. As a street speaker, my most popular sign said, "BLACK AMERICANS ARE THE BEST AMERICANS". Most of what I know about race, I learned from face to face experience of the kind that a man can acquire only by hitting the road and seeking it.
The following poem serves four purposes here. First, it is autobiographical. Second, it outlines most of the counsel that I would give to a young person. Third, it illustrates the power of writing. And fourth, most importantly, it demonstrates the necessity of "guided thinking", because it is utterly incomprehensible without explanation. For example, the verse about whores is not about women; it is about all human relationships in the urban jungle. There is no love where there is no village, for the only true love is love for one's village. Such statements are incomprehensible until you can look at them in the light cast by the teachings. Those who master my teachings will return to this poem and say, "Aha! Now I understand what each verse is saying and can see the truth of it".
An autobiographical poem: "My Illusions Of individuality"
I thought, "Thank God that I am not a mouse spinning a running wheel in a cage!"
But then i saw my cage, and the running wheel that i was spinning.
I thought, "Thank God that I live in an orderly and peaceful village!"
But then i saw the violence and chaos of the jungle, and that there was no village.
I thought, "Thank God that I am not an insect, easily smashed by a thumb!"
But then i saw the enormous thumb, and was terrified.
I thought, "Thank God that I am a male, with a powerful body, a laborer and carpenter!"
But then i broke my neck, became paralyzed, and lost all of my muscles.
I thought, "Thank God that I am young and handsome and will live forever!"
But then i became old, and saw the momentary flicker of my life in the expanse of time.
I thought, "Thank God that my wife loves me, as I love her, for she is no whore!"
But then she was gone, and i saw that all women are whores.
I thought, "Thank God that I, and all that I see, are real, and that God is an illusion!"
But then i saw that i, and all that i see, are illusion, and that only God is real.
Savoring this wisdom, I thought, "Thank God that I am no longer blind!"
But then i saw, that i merely cannot see, that i am still blind.
Wo'O Ideafarm
As a young person, you could do worse than spend some time studying my teachings and, later, becoming my student in association with other students in an "online campus". I want to enable you to learn, the easy way, what I had to learn the hard way. That is what I am actually offering you here on IDEAFARM.COM.
Young people do not trust old people, for good reason. The ancient jungle of our ancestors was a place of violence, chaos, and predation. There was no right and wrong and no moral rules and only one rule: Eat or be eaten. Our ancestors discovered that joining together in community enabled them to survive and prosper in the jungle. In game theory terms, our ancestors discovered that forming a coalition is the winning strategy in the game of jungle life, dominating the "singleton coalition" (going it alone). In those tribal villages, our ancestors enjoyed peace and order, and roles and rules developed. Within those villages, the adults nurtured the children, and the elders guided the adults. That remains, and will always be, the formula for success in human life. The problem is that young people today do not live in villages. Today's cities are urban jungles, and everyone, including elders, is a predator.
The metaphor of a village in a jungle can be used to concisely state both the problem that IDEAFARM.COM will solve and the solution that IDEAFARM.COM will use. Our ancestors began as lone wolf nocturnal predators, and that is therefore part of our genetic nature. But for a million years, humans formed cooperative village "coalitions", which was the winning strategy until the very recent emergence of empires 5000 years ago. (["Ancient Mesopotamia: The First Cities in History"]) The genetic innovation that made the cooperative village strategy possible was the capacity for selfless, unconditional love. The ancestral village thus had the character of, "One for all; all for one". So being a villager, having the capacity for unselfishness, is also a part of our genetic nature. Today, we live in the period of empires, in which men impose order on a scale much larger than a village. In today's "urban jungle", the character is not, "One for all; all for one". It is, "I got mine so fuck you". It is truly a jungle, and everyone is a predator. In these terms, I intend to use technology to create a village in the jungle. This village will be global, and every human being on the planet will be invited to become a villager.
W H A T Y O U A C T U A L L Y G E T O N I D E A F A R M . C O M
Below the surface, what IDEAFARM.COM is really offering is my life experience, packaged as guidance in various forms. When you start your 32 day free trial subscription, you will immediately have access to my 32 teachings, each presented as a "pure knowledge tree". 32 days is plenty of time for you to explore each of the 32 teachings, which are very easy and quick to browse because each is presented as a pure knowledge tree. You will also quickly become familiar with how to read knowledge trees. If you are not intrigued by either the teachings or the technology, you can easily cancel your subscription with a few clicks.
Once an anonymous chat system has been added, you will be able to discuss these teachings with me and with other students. Later, a form of online classroom will be added, which will be developed into an online correspondence college. Eventually, I will invite other professors, including former students, to join me as faculty. This will become a wholesome community, like the ancestral village. It will not be a cult. The eventual form will be like a college or university, in that diverse viewpoints will be offered. Student interaction with each other and with professors will be anonymous and fully disclosed.
The main reason to subscribe today is that IDEAFARM.COM is not likely to come to your attention again. I plan to let this grow by word of mouth while I finish up the software and then focus on developing the content. The price that I've set for a subscription, ten cents ($0.10 USD) per day, is not enough to cover the cost of advertising. You can benefit immediately from studying my 32 teachings and discussing them intelligently, respectfully, and critically on social media, as a worthy student. Once the chat system is ready, I will do my best to be a worthy teacher and to connect you with other students. If you do not subscribe today, IDEAFARM.COM will likely never come to your attention again.
On the next page, I will figuratively shout, "He's got a gun!", and then introduce what I have built to empower young people worldwide. To continue, click [#10] here: Wo'O Ideafarm's Software Innovation, and Plan to Empower "We The People" Worldwide