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Myles Wakeham is an expatriate Australian, who moved to the USA in 1989 and became a US Citizen in 2003 in Phoenix, Arizona. Myles lives in Scottsdale, Arizona much of the time, but spends a large portion of his year traveling the world with his wife and daughter. | Myles Wakeham is an expatriate Australian, who moved to the USA in 1989 and became a US Citizen in 2003 in Phoenix, Arizona. Myles lives in Scottsdale, Arizona much of the time, but spends a large portion of his year traveling the world with his wife and daughter. | ||
He is a self-made, financially independent person who is the host of "The Unconstrained Podcast" (https://www.beunconstrained.com/podcast) and the author of https://www.beunconstrained.com | He is a self-made, financially independent person who is the host of "The Unconstrained Podcast" (https://www.beunconstrained.com/podcast) and the author of the website https://www.beunconstrained.com | ||
It is Myles' goal to empower others to become financially sustainable. This is a methodology that he created and is releasing it codified in book form in late 2020. | It is Myles' goal to empower others to become financially sustainable. This is a methodology that he created and is releasing it codified in book form in late 2020. | ||
In 2021, Myles and his wife purchased an acre of land in [https://www.cntraveller.com/gallery/san-miguel-de-allende-mexico San Miguel de Allende], and began building a home & world class recording studio, in an attempt to return to his musical & sound engineering roots. | |||
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This led into teachings, a website and finally his successful and popular podcast "The Unconstrained Podcast". Today Myles hosts this podcast weekly along with providing a community to all those that have embraced this teaching. He speaks regularly at events, and has been a guest on numerous radio shows, including some on the https://libertytalk.fm | This led into teachings, a website and finally his successful and popular podcast "The Unconstrained Podcast". Today Myles hosts this podcast weekly along with providing a community to all those that have embraced this teaching. He speaks regularly at events, and has been a guest on numerous radio shows, including some on the https://libertytalk.fm | ||
=== Libertarian values & Open Borders | == Technology == | ||
Myles purchased and worked on the very first personal computers from 1978, and founded a software company with a partner shortly afterwards. This led to being contracted to build software throughout the city of Adelaide where he lived, including government departments, universities, forensic science labs and Myles even wrote the first billing software for the Australian Submarine Corporation's $5 billion submarine contract with the Royal Australian Navy, single handed. When he moved to the USA, he was contracted and employed by Amgen before they had approval for any products, which he then saw the rise of this startup to become the world's largest biotechnology corporation. | |||
Throughout his technological career, he has written software in over 10 languages, was a member of various open source projects, including the [https://firebirdsql.org Firebird Foundation]. He has been an expert witness for cases against Microsoft. Myles is a strong civil liberty, privacy, cryptography and open source software advocate and is a Linux expert, with experience dating back to the 1990s in that operating system. | |||
Myles established [https://www.edgeneering.com Edgeneering LLC] in 2007 in Arizona, which was one of the first cloud computing & managed service provider companies at the time. He built large server clusters in data centers in Phoenix and Texas to provide clients with direct services against the prevailing popularity of big tech firms taking over hosting of anything on the Internet. | |||
In 2011, Myles was introduced to Bitcoin and purchased his first Bitcoin when pricing was around $7 each. | |||
Around 2020, he made a decision to leave this career behind after losing faith in the way that the software industry had progressed, the amalgamation of control by a few Big tech firms and the ignorance of individual freedom by way of corporate over-reach. He was also disillusioned at the willingness of corporate greed to sell out the intellectual power of software development, against the interest of local industry in the USA. Although Edgeneering still operates, it serves only a handful of clients now who need complete control of their technology rather than giving up that control to big tech firms. | |||
Myles still dabbles and keeps up to date on technology, but has since moved his attention to returning to his roots of music & sound engineering. | |||
== Music production & sound engineering == | |||
Myles' early experiences in moving to Los Angeles occurred with a band he co-founded and played as a guitarist/song writer in, that led to meeting many in the recording industry in Hollywood in the early 1990s. During this time, he built his own recording studio but also was contracted to work at various other legendary studios in Hollywood, including the famous but now closed Grandmaster Recorders. He worked with many established clients and was on the cusp of building a reputation in LA as a desired producer & sound engineer. This was all cut short when he had to return to Australia to look after his mother. | |||
However after returning to the USA and choosing to work in the technology space, to provide stability to raise a family, after his daughter graduated, he and his wife bought an acre of land in the town of San Miguel de Allende and began building a large home and world class recording studio. The studio was modeled to be a replica of the world famous [https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5834179/Inside-ruins-George-Martins-Montserrat-studio-rotting-away-beneath-volcano.html AIR Studios Montserrat] - known for it defining the sound of the music of the 1980s, but unfortunately was destroyed by a hurricane & any chance of rebuilding it was dashed by a volcano eruption on the island. But Myles found the original team that built that studio and with their help will construct his studio (at least the live room) to be a homage to Sir George Martin's vision of the past. | |||
In Myles' view, the world of technology & organic art must live in concert with each other, and as he has witnessed working in both technology & music for decades, the technology is defining music but away from the human roots that once defined it. It is Myles' goal to bring music back to those roots, and he chose Mexico as the place to do this since it has a vibrant art & cultural backbone and hasn't been corrupted by too much technology overtaking that art. | |||
The allure of this vision has been infectious and Myles has already received interest from many established artists and bands to come to his studio in San Miguel de Allende once it is completed to produce their next major recording. The peace and tranquility of San Miguel, the low cost and economics of Mexico and the easy access to Mexico from the USA, Canada and Europe, has made this project desirable and exciting. | |||
== Libertarian values & Open Borders == | |||
Myles believes that one should have the freedom and responsibility that comes with that. Freedom provides the right to choose who you are, who you associate with, what you do, what you can do to serve others, where you can go, when you can go and all of this comes with the responsibility of accepting the risks and failures that can happen. Life is a risk, and each day that we live we are blessed to make the most of it. If a state takes away that freedom, humanity suffers. | Myles believes that one should have the freedom and responsibility that comes with that. Freedom provides the right to choose who you are, who you associate with, what you do, what you can do to serve others, where you can go, when you can go and all of this comes with the responsibility of accepting the risks and failures that can happen. Life is a risk, and each day that we live we are blessed to make the most of it. If a state takes away that freedom, humanity suffers. | ||