{"id":176,"date":"2026-02-04T11:58:40","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T16:58:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goblackcat.com\/?p=176"},"modified":"2026-02-04T11:58:40","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T16:58:40","slug":"im-getting-braver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goblackcat.com\/wordpress\/2026\/02\/04\/im-getting-braver\/","title":{"rendered":"I\u2019m Getting Braver"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I think that I might be actually getting braver, a bit more self-confident, and caring less what others think anymore. I got written up for calling out of work last Friday. The write-up came to me via email and I was expected to sign. Not only did I refuse to sign but I wrote in the comments box, \u201cI do not sign these documents.\u201d That put such a smile on my face. I feel like I have power and beg nobody for work. Better, more independent days are in front of me so my eyes are forward. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">ChatGPT helped me generate the working title for my book,<em> Bootstrapping Your Own Internet: A Step-by-Step Journey Through Linux &amp; BSD Labs<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I think I will pitch this to No Starch Press. I really like that publisher and hope they\u2019ll bite. But they\u2019re not going to bite if I don\u2019t bait the hook and cast the rod. This is a good goal for me. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I don\u2019t know if this is the positive bias of ChatGPT or if I really have something here. I am choosing to believe I have a worthwhile and fun idea. Some chapter ideas popped up:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Data center-In-A-Box<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Overlay networks\/SD-WAN<br>DNS: How does it really work<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>LAMP\/LEMP Stacks<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Landing From The Clouds<br>VPN<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Community Networks<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Privacy&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>VOIP telephony: Being My Own Ma Bell.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Beyond Vendors or How I Overcame Name Recognition.&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>High Availability Computing<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think that I might be actually getting braver, a bit more self-confident, and caring less what others think anymore. I got written up for calling out of work last Friday. The write-up came to me via email and I was expected to sign. Not only did I refuse to sign but I wrote in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mental-health"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goblackcat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goblackcat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goblackcat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goblackcat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goblackcat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/goblackcat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goblackcat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goblackcat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goblackcat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}