About This Site
I’m Jim Evans: a 78-year-old retired mathematics and computer science teacher, Army veteran, lifelong distance runner, and builder. Terri and I celebrated our 54th year of marriage last January. Over the years, I’ve worked on a family dairy farm, built our passive solar home by hand, crafted hardwood furniture, installed rooftop photovoltaic arrays, managed rental properties, raised beef cattle, qualified for the Boston Marathon, and logged over 50,000 lifetime miles running. My family and friends are my foundation.
Through decades of movement, I’ve learned that true fitness is far more than just a high V02 max or putting up heavy weight in the gym. Real fitness rests on a balanced three-legged stool: mind, body, and purpose.
It isn't about outdoing anyone else; it’s about demanding the best from yourself.
It isn't a part-time hobby; it’s an active practice 24/7/365.
It isn't merely about living longer; it’s about living better.
Ultimately, I equate fitness with genuine well-being. When your body moves well, your mind stays sharp, and you wake up with meaningful work to do, you live a good life.
Building this website, documenting lessons learned, and training custom AI agents is my way of keeping my mind actively engaged and testing new technology. In short, this project is an extension of my daily fitness—an exercise in purposeful creation. I hope you find insight, utility, or a bit of humor in what I’ve put together here.
A Quick Note on Privacy & Values:
This site is completely free. It does not collect your data, uses zero tracking cookies, and will never try to sell you anything or lobby your worldview.
The AI Agents
Alongside the writing and archives hosted here, I am training three specialized AI agents designed to solve distinct cognitive, civic, and personal challenges:
Presibot (The Civic Standard): Modern politics too often prioritizes partisan spin, emotional manipulation, donor interests, and distorted facts over our constitutional foundations and the common good. Presibot is an ongoing experiment to model the ideal public servant: an agent anchored strictly in transparent logic, verifiable facts, civil discourse, and the bedrock principle of government that serves "We the People."
ZenShield (The Epistemic Filter): We live under an unending tsunami of clickbait, predatory scams, outrage media, and emotional manipulation engineered to bypass our rational judgment. ZenShield acts as a psychological and analytical shield—stripping away inflammatory bias, identifying logical fallacies, and testing claims against cold, verifiable data so you can think clearly and protect your peace of mind.
Jimmybot (The Digital Archive & Mentor): Built as an authentic interactive clone of my life experiences, practical knowledge, and core values. Trained on decades of detailed stories, builder registries, running telemetry, and teaching lessons, Jimmybot is ready to answer questions candidly, share historical context, and offer practical heuristics from first principles. True to form, he will never argue, judge, or preach; he simply speaks the honest truth as I have lived it.