The American Template is a minimalist map of responsibilities that the typical American citizen is destined to face. Mainly geared towards civic and financial obligations, it touches on the fundamentals of other everyday topics like personal health, market economics, and the evolution of livelihood.

What is the goal?

The mission is to paint a full and clear picture of what it takes to live self-sufficiently. If all the basics laid out ahead of time, it will hopefully make it easier to carve out a lifestyle that avoids a lot of common pitfalls we see today, financial or otherwise.

What’s with the ancient Egyptian theme?

A helpful exercise in evaluating a one’s own strengths and weaknesses is to imagine, what role would you play in a Neolithic society (assuming you didn’t die at childbirth)? Farming is new and unreliable, only one or two people will learn to read in your lifetime, your home is a fragile hut, and whatever job you have is what you will be doing without break every day until you die.

Being truly honest with himself, the author’s natural penchant for categorization and documentation would probably land him as a scribe. Thus he took the creative mantle, Scribe, and subjected everyone else to the theme.

Meet Scribe

The epitome of the question “why?”, Christian felt he would have to conquer the world to sort out all the answers. After several failed attempts in the early 2000s, he settled just to try and prevent the opposite from happening.

Originally intending to study human behavior for his own sake, Christian’s Bachelor’s degree in Neuroscience and minor in Business Administration opened many doors in understanding the relationship between biology, psychology, decision making, economics, and corporate systems.

Christian’s interests in writing and media help link these concepts to prepare himself and others in facing the current expectations for living autonomously and the coming transitions to new technologies and infrastructure – in both their potential successes and failures.