THIERRY POUPLIER
My Telos

This document captures the TELOS method of articulating a person's personal context so that they, and AI, can better understand them and help them improve. Pay attention to the items and the concepts here, and especially on how they work together.

The conceptual path is Problems -> Mission -> (Narratives) -> Goals -> Challenges -> Strategies —> Projects -> Journal. This means that any project you're doing can be mapped all the way back up to the problem(s) you're trying to solve. This gives you transparency and explainability in everything you're doing so you don't end up busy for days/months/years without being able to remember why you're doing what you're doing.

Other sections that aren't those core sections are additional context to support them.

• I grew up in Saint-Eustache, Quebec, Canada
• I went to Notre Dame for my first year of school, where I was bullied a decent amount
• I then switched to Coeur à Coeur school for my second year and the rest of my primary. This is where I met 2 of my life-long friends, Nicolas and Kevin, who are still my friends today
• I then went to École Liberté Jeunesse at Saint-Marthe-Sur-Le-Lac. Was a satellite to the cool gang. Never in, but friend with some, one was Kevin. Nicolas went to a private school.
• I then go to Montmorency college to do a technical in electronics, specialized in computer and networking. I didn't really made or kept any friend from college. I made my first girlfriend there thought.
• After college, I got to ÉTS, École de Technologie Supérieur. There I got a bachelor in electric engineering with a specialization in AI and control theory. I also participated into robotics club a lot. I was at some point director of software and then a founder of another club. We went to the RobotCup multiple time accros the world. Germany (Lepzig), Japan (tbd), Australia (Sydney). I also party a fair bit with the engineering games. Really nice years. And it's during these years that I parted from my parents house, at 24 years old. I then inhabited multiple apartment (1 new each year of my 4 years) in Montreal.
• Right at the end of my university, I participated in a drone startup… To Be Continue…

Personal problems are to be prioritize over family problem and family problems over world problems. The Px is only a ID for reference into other sections. Their order inside the PROBLEMS section is what represent their importance.

• M1: Create for me and others technologies that are made for the good of humans
• M2: Create for me and my family a self sufficient environment and be a exemple for my peers
• M3: Offering a good land and house to my future family

• N1: I am findings ways that technology can help us in a meaningful way and privately
• N2: I want to be living the most I can by renewable means that I control the quality
• N3: I will own a big land

• G1: Build a server that can help me and my family and friend to not pay for cloud services and also keep our privacy by the end of 2025
• G2: Build a garden on my futur land to grow organic food for the familly before the end of 2026
• G3: Buy a house on a big land before mid 2026
• G4: Ask for Catherine hand before the end of 2025
• G5: Sell the triplex before the end of 2025

• C1: Right now I dont have a car so it's taking me 1h30 go to work and 1h30 coming back, resulting in much les time for everything else in my life
• C2: It's really not going well with Catherine (my girlfriend). We have a lot of communication issues. Anxious and avoidant attachement style kind of dynamic
• C3: I have a really hard time prioritizing what to do. I try hard to organize myself with org mode, Areas of Responsibilities, PARA file system, but its seems is can never get on top of things.
• C4: I need to sell the triplex really soon. This is something that sill take a lot of my time.
• C5: I like building stuff for myself on my server and get my familly to use it, but I have a hard time seeing these thing becoming services lots of people uses. I dont know how to make the transition. For exemple i can make a super elaborated n8n pipeline to process my news, email , etc, but how do i make it into a product that is private. That's the thing that blocs me i think. For the mass majority of people, the rely on the cloud, and been not private bother me.
• C6: I dont talk to my friend enough
• C7: My emacs config is unstable and a continuously need to use org-mode-restart. Been my first tool in life and at work, its a thing to consider.
• C8: There is too much to do, watch, learn, do.

• Strategies to get rich:
  1. Getting my finance in order
     • Budget base zero
     • Automatisation
     • Produce more money with side husle
     • Spend less by budgeting
  2. Building a coporate structure
     • Holding company
     • Operating company
  3. Creating a Universal Life Anssurance
     • Using it to accumulate money away from the taxes
     • Using it to buy more real estate by taking loan on it
     • Give me a taxe shield for my kid to pay the taxes on my building if something happend to me
  4. Refinancing my building every 2-3 year
     • Reambursing my loan on my UL
     • Buying more building
• Strategies to get my couple in order
  1. Weekly review with the wife
     • Talk about personal growth
     • Talk about schedule
     • Talk about money
  2. Weekly date
     • Plan in advance
     • Try to do it even if there is tension in the couple

• I thought I would have sold the triplex and bought a house by now (mid 2025)
• I wanted to keep my Chevrolet Volt Gen 1 even thought i couldn't afforded it at the time
• I am not sure I should have taken all that student dept during my university. Still paying for it
• Switching career to be arborist. Even thought I absolutely loved the experience, now I'm back in engineering to be able to buy a house. But I also missed programming. And now I miss climbing tree, but I can still do it, because i got all the gear now
• I could get rid if my freeze respond to tense conversation with my partner, without constant work on personal growth. I can get away for a while, but alway come back if i dont keep it in check.

• Time base hierarchical context engine, to aggregate all that is currently going on with the user into a short context for the llm using summary of data every 20, 60, 180 min, 1D, 1W, 1M, 1Y, 5Y, 10Y, 20Y, whole life. The llm get in its context the last o every time scale so it get the whole picture of (big and short scale)
  • Basically easily doable with openclaw and its cron job system and agent skills/commands

• Gold and bitcoin will continue too go higher
• When our brains will all be connected to the cloud for external processing, having a slower, but capable server at home will be a sign of luxury. To have your private thought truly private, processed at home. The cloud will be for the poor. And you could use both, but use your private server for not politically correct thought..

• The Matrix
• Interstellar

• The bullet journal method
• The Beginning of Infinity (I have it but didn't read it yet)
• Les Tanatonautes
• L'encyclopédie du savoir absolue et relatif

• Ian Carroll: News, Conspiracies
• Joe Rogan: Multitude of subjects
• The Tech Preper: Radio stuff, decentralized comms

• Hard time make strong man, strong man make easy times, easy times make weak man, weak man make hard time..
• If i feel down, medicament or psychologue never helped me. A simple run can get you back on your feet like nothing else. MOVE YOUR BODY.
• In practice, weak people behave very similarly to evil people. Don’t tie yourself to either.
• When I am feeling low mood or low energy, 95% of the time it's because I have not 1) gotten up early, 2) gotten outside, 3) worked out, 4) gone for a walk, or done anything else physical in the last 2 days. Just go do that, and you'll instantly feel better.

• K1: Dishes done everyday
• K2: One date per week with Catherine
• K3: Server up time

• My mom got me after a car crash that provoked my delivery. Dont know if that affected me or not.
• My dad didn't had a dad. He is always angry. I dont have a good relation with him. Particularly right now because he do as he like at our Triplex we co-own, but I live in it. He caused multiple time Catherine to not feel respected in her apartment. For exemple he started the renovation of our kitchen without telling us. He as thrown Catherine flower pot to the garbage without asking.
• My best friend slept with my first girlfriend right after we separated. That was ruff.
• Lost my first job after the University because i couldn't get to the role I wanted and lost motivation. Also because of my failed relationship at the time.

• See my other org files. Dailies, Areas, Projects, Everything is dated.