I met Jane four years ago at one of the lowest points in my life. I was broken—lost in direction and in dignity. She welcomed me anyway. Over time, she didn’t just help me recover—she invited me into a new kind of life. She taught me about Bitcoin. About business. About building relationships around making things. But most importantly, she taught me about her love for men—and in hearing why she loved us, I slowly started to like myself again.
 
Jane and I have been building together for three years now, often for little more than $100 gift cards, a yurt, and a shared commitment to getting this right. That meant learning through failure. Iterating relentlessly. Speedrunning knowledge. Obsessing over everything from Mamba Mentality to Kosmic and Summoning Salt. From Dave Matthews loops to Dave Chappelle stand-up comedy to Lebron James is in ANOTHER championship series. To the life of moss. To the sound of the wind through the trees. To tides and waves that have you stand in awe. Anything that reminded us about being alive.
 
The more I built with Jane, the more desire I had to be me. And the more me I felt, the more I realized: the learning to be alive wasn’t separate from the building of my Atelier—it was the building. Looking back, we spent our time laughing at how often we miscommunicated. How many times we dropped the ball again and again. And every stumble, ironically enough, was a step forward. Every iteration cleared a clog. Every second chance sharpened the knife.
 
So, dear reader, where do we begin? 
 
Spill the Water is a community where men, yes, just men at this point, learn to be alive by building and telling stories, building and playing games, and building spaces to just hang out...together. 
 
Our goal?
 
Help men feel like men again.
Reconnect brotherhood with the gift of "boys being boys."
Reconnect life-long learners with the love of learning.
Remind artists that building (i.e., creating) isn’t a means to an end—it’s how you build a life worth living.
 
And yes, I will live in a yurt until this affords me some money and a place to buy land and a bigger yurt. LOL. 
 
Spill the Water is human relearning and relating reimagined.
Not as credential.
But as communion.
As curiosity.
As craft.
 
Spill the Water is a Curio.
 
This Curio is also meant to offer the blueprints 1.0 for building digital spaces that feel like evolution.
 
And I want this project to succeed wildly—not just spiritually, but financially. I’d like Spill the Water to make $50 million by October. Not out of greed, but because I believe this idea deserves to be resourced. And I believe there are others—schools, funders, institutions, brothers—who will see what we’re building and want in.
 
This is School 2.0, rebuilt for the human spir...I mean...
 
Welcome to Curio.