PERSONAL OPERATING SYSTEM / v1.1
Vitautas.exe
One human. Several unrelated processes.
Someone left the internal operating system online. Currently building something, investigating something else, and noticing a detail nobody asked about.
Current priority: temporary. Need to understand why: permanent.
01 / BACKGROUND ACTIVITY
Currently running. Simultaneously.
Open a process. The others will keep running.
vibecoding.exeRUNNING
Started making something. Several hours appear to have gone missing. Whether the thing needed to exist is a separate investigation.
photography.exeOBSERVING
A random detail. An odd bit of light. Something that simply looks interesting. That is enough of a reason to take a photograph.
it-support.exeUNFORTUNATELY RUNNING
Friends have a technical question. Again. “Have you restarted it?” remains an unresolved line of enquiry.
rabbit-hole.exeSUBJECT MAY CHANGE
Software, networking, then something with no obvious connection to either. No transition was considered necessary.
figure-out-why.exeCANNOT BE TERMINATED
An interesting machine, a camera, old hardware, a server doing something strange. Investigation is inevitable. The explanation may require another project.
02 / ABOUT THE OPERATOR
Everything has an explanation.
Vitautas is a human in Estonia. Something catches his interest, and then he needs to understand how it works. Sometimes it is software. Sometimes photography, networking, electronics or AI. Sometimes it has no obvious connection to any of those.
Several of these can be happening at once. Finding an explanation may result in another project.
- Cause
- EXISTS
- Explanation
- NOT FOUND YET
03 / 04
While those are running…
A few other ways to get distracted.
Diagnostics
Find out whether the problem is your computer. It probably isn’t.
Run the checksDecision engine
Outsource your next questionable decision to a random number.
Ask the engineCorporate translator
Turn a perfectly clear sentence into a meeting that could have been an email.
Add some jargonActually useful tools
JSON, text, timestamps, QR codes. An unexpected lapse in judgement.
Open the toolbox