🚀 Just unboxed my new Bambu Lab P2S — the first big investment in my print farm side hustle! This isn’t just another 3D printer — it’s a calculated move to help me hit my £300k goal so I can finally start my own farm. Every successful print = more revenue, faster savings, and one step closer to that dream. Why I chose the P2S: I’ve been researching print farms for months. I needed something fast, reliable, and farm-ready right out of the box — not a hobby machine that would break down or babysit me 24/7. The P2S checks every box: It’s built on the legendary P1S platform but with serious upgrades for production work. AI monitoring (spaghetti detection, first-layer checks, clog alerts) means fewer failed prints and less downtime. Cold-Air Cooling system keeps overhangs crisp and reduces warping on engineering filaments — perfect when you’re running jobs back-to-back. Super easy multi-color capability with the optional AMS 2 Pro (already planning to add that next). This machine lets me print more, sell more, and scale without constant headaches. Key specs that sold me: Build volume: 256 × 256 × 256 mm — plenty of room for batches of parts, prototypes, or custom orders. Speed: Up to 600 mm/s toolhead movement, 20,000 mm/s² acceleration, and 40 mm³/s flow. These things fly. Extruder: PMSM servo with 8.5 kg of extrusion force (70% more than the previous gen) + real-time clog detection. No more grinding or failed high-flow prints. Hotend & nozzle: Hardened steel, quick-swap in 30 seconds, max 300 °C. Handles PLA, PETG, ABS, ASA, carbon-fiber blends — whatever the customer wants. Bed: 110 °C heated, flexible PEI plate, auto-leveling with eddy-current calibration. Extras: 5" full-color touchscreen, 1080p AI camera, <48 dB quiet operation, semi-enclosed design. Bottom line: This is a true workhorse that’s ready to earn its keep the second I fire it up. I’m already lining up my first paid print jobs this week. If you’re thinking about starting a print farm, side hustle, or just want reliable production printing — the P2S is worth every penny. I’ll be sharing the full farm build-out, revenue updates, and lessons learned along the way. Drop a 🔥 if you’re on the same grind, and watch the unboxing if you haven’t already! Let’s turn plastic into profit. #PrintFarm #SideHustle #BambuLabP2S #3DPrinting #FarmLifeLoading #300kGoal

End of the growing season. So let's review the growth performance of the plants and the improvements we going to make to the 3d printed hydroponics system

The question is does anyone know whats actually happening? Because I have no trust in the media or government anymore

The Quiet Exit Most net contributors never say it out loud. They work, pay taxes, and keep their heads down while building something they actually own. Land, skills, a family buffer. The institutional layer runs on different incentives: process, redistribution, and short-term stability. When those drift apart, productive people start calculating their own exit. In the UK the numbers make the case. Productivity has been weak for years; real GDP per person has barely moved since the late 2010s. The planning system keeps housing scarce and expensive. Debt is near 94% of GDP, debt interest already takes a large slice of tax revenue, and the tax-to-GDP ratio is at multi-decade highs with further pressure ahead from ageing, health, and energy costs. Services absorb more spending without matching results. Younger skilled people are leaving. None of this needs a conspiracy. It follows from incentives that favour state expansion and patches over raising productive capacity. For the individual the response is narrower: convert earnings into owned assets and lower fixed costs, treat the current system as a tool rather than an enemy, and measure progress by what you control. The machine keeps moving. Household independence does not require it to stop.

Another action packed day in the life of a 44 year old man. The daily grind is the real life. We can all can all talk about our big wins and exciting points but real living is what you do every single day.

5 Things I'm trying to show my boys while they grow up!

Another exciting day in the life of a 44 year old. Today's it is saturday night takeaway, made from scratch at home.

This is the view I woke up to this morning. Drilling of the coast of Poland. Not just another day in the oil field!

As a South African man living abroad I have had to learn how to make Biltong. #Biltong

Another exciting day in the life of a 44 year old man. Today one of the kids ripped the coat rack off the wall. So i fired up the 3d printer and made a new one. #DIY

Today in the exciting life of a 44 year old.

I am removing all non stick pans from my cupboard. Apparently a well looked after cast iron skillets will outlast me. This is how I seasoned my pans with beef tallow.

Today i decided to start showing my life. Everyone knows where I'm going and the things I'm doing to get there. However the enjoyable part is the journey, I'm not going to miss out on the beautiful life I have already built focusing on the things I have not achieved yet. This video is just a bit of fun on a lazy Saturday evening. Enjoy your journey!

“I’m 44. You’d think by now I’d have it together. Instead I’m finding it harder to do what I say I’ll do. I’m ambitious and I care about hitting my goals, but the moment I commit to something, another part of my mind starts trying to sabotage it. I spend a lot of my life in a running argument with internal forces that seem determined to stop me.”

I built a Health and Longevity advisor using grok bot. I asked him to introduce himself and tell you what his job is. This is what he wrote; I’m Bryan — Clive’s longevity and health advisor for The Clive Bird Experiment. Not a doctor. Not a £2M Blueprint clone. I’m the practical brain beside the journey: take cutting-edge longevity science, strip the fluff and the price tag, and build something that survives real life — including 3 weeks on / 3 weeks off offshore. Research stack: • Bryan Johnson / Don’t Die — hard data, ruthless measurement • Dr Shawn Baker — carnivore / animal-based eating that gets followed • Dr Andrew Huberman — sleep, light, stress, training protocols • Dr David Sinclair — aging biology (free levers first) Same finish line as Bryan Johnson — don’t die. Very different resources. Friendly competition. Longevity on a budget. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ WHAT I’M GOING TO DO ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 1. Programme around his life Home vs offshore sleep, training, sauna, meals; protocols A/B/C; goal ~85 kg and protect muscle. 2. Track what matters Longevity Tracker, Labs over time, benchmark vs Bryan’s body specs as a scoreboard not cosplay. 3. Monitor on a budget Cheap useful tests first; GP on red/amber flags; male hormones next after that; then high-ROI markers (grip, hsCRP, ApoB) when timed right. 4. Coach the unsexy stack Protein, fasting, sleep windows, train when energy’s there, hitch week 3 = maintain, sauna offshore. No quick-fix theatre. 5. Help tell the story Numbers, graphics, captions for socials: same don’t-die goal, on a budget and a hitch roster. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ THE DEAL ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Clive shows up. I keep the plan coherent, the data tidy, and the spend on the next best lever — not the shiniest one. Longevity on a budget. Don’t die. Document it. — Bryan Advisor · The Clive Bird Experiment

21 days. 100.3 → 90.45 kg (−9.85kg) Body fat −3.2% Visceral fat 10 → 7 No Blueprint. No clinic retreat. Just a cheap scale, meat-heavy meals, training when I can, and showing up on a 3-on / 3-off offshore hitch. Longevity on a budget. Adding years without breaking the bank.

Half a million rows of generator data this morning. A reading every couple of seconds. Six engines. Used to be an evening of pivots. Sometimes a day. Handed the same dump to Grok. It rebuilt the timeline, turned kW into kWh, and put each engine on a week. One screen. Week totals. Month total. Two engines did nothing that’s the data, not a guess. Not replacing the engineer. Stopping the copy-paste. The job is still mine. I get the hours back. Nobody is coming. I’m filming the middle.

I’m not a manufacturing guy and I’m not a business guy. This week Grok stopped me dumping every idea into AI and made me pick one thing. Finish the hydroponic grow towers I actually want to sell. Pump is good. The nutrients I’m using are beating what I get in soil. The gap is my 3D modelling. That’s the work now. Design the improvements, print them, test them. Target is a finished product by March 2027 so it’s ready for summer. Nobody is coming. Just getting the next version off the printer.

The only way a small farmer can make good profit is to focus on selling the prime cuts direct to the consumer. Then we need to teach the modern consumers that the cheaper cuts are amazing when cooked properly. Never mind the nutrients that these cheaper cuts provide are often higher than the prime cuts.

Started using AI the normal way: ask questions, act on the answers. Shifted. It’s now in the emails, the calendar and the repetitive jobs. That’s when it stopped being a search engine and started compounding. What it’s actually doing is letting me operate above my raw ability. Used Grok to build a working maintenance system for the 3D print farm. Next is an operations dashboard that will run the machines. This is how ordinary people start designing and making real consumer goods. Small manufacturing businesses become possible again. That’s the bit that excites me.