259: Restoration with Patrick Rhone

This week’s guest is Patrick Rhone, writer, blogger, technology consultant, mental health advocate and home restoration enthusiast. He joins Brett to talk mental health, home restoration, and some of his favorite tools.

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Show Links

• Rhoneisms – by Patrick Rhone
• Whoa to Wow
• Patrick Rhone
• Micro.blog
• IFTTT
• Day One
• Systematic 180: Everything Exploded with Patrick Rhone
• Mental Health Minnesota
• NYT – Languishing
• Mental Health Minnesota
• The Piggyback Guy

Top 3 Picks

1. Keychron K2
2. Ugmonk Analog
   • Dash/Plus System
3. Area X: The Southern Reach Trilogy
   • Nnedi Okorafor
   • Neuromancer
   • Snow Crash
   • The Road Less Traveled
   • Your Money or Your Life

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Transcript

Patrick and Brett

Brett: [00:00:00] [00:00:00]

[00:00:07] This week’s episode is brought to you by PDF pen and upstart.com. My guest this week is Patrick Rhone. It’s been, uh, since about 2016, since you’ve been on, what are, you introduce yourself these days?

[00:00:26] Patrick: [00:00:26] Um, well, I guess I’m still a writer. Um, I am still a blogger. I am still a technology consultant. Uh, I am, uh, still, uh, very, uh, deeply involved in, um, um, mental health as a, uh, as a passion, um, and a, and an advocate and, uh, and a, um, you know, mental illness, survivor myself. Um, and, uh, I [00:01:00] also, uh, found on now and the home restoration game, uh, Where, where, uh, I, uh, my wife and I have long been an interest in property ownership and whatnot, but now we are actively like, like looking for properties to purchase and to fix up and to themsel.

[00:01:26] But one at a time, at least I’m trying to hold her.

[00:01:32] Brett: [00:01:32] Yeah, well, uh, you have, uh, you have, you’ve journaled your, uh, your kind of, uh, progress through at least one home. Now, how many, how many homes have you done?

[00:01:43] Patrick: [00:01:43] So this really star