The Power of "I-am"

For personal use

Alright.
You’re here.

You’ve pulled into the Garage where we wrench the Q — the Power Quotient of the I-am — I exist.

Think of this Q as the magnitude of the engine’s Torque that it puts down at the wheels.

High Q — I-am torque — is essential for 4-wheel Drive Life and career.
With low Q — I-am torque — flooring it is useless; no matter the IQ, you won't drive far on it.

Here’s what I mean.

I-amQ Example:

Richard Branson
IQ: Unknown.
School Performance: Poor.
Challenges: Suffered from reading difficulties.
Education: Dropped out of school at 16.
Founded Virgin Group, which includes over 400 companies.
Revenue: $19–25 billion (as of 2025).
Net Worth: $5 billion.

Low I-amQ Examples:

William James Sidis
Confirmed IQ: Incredible, 250 to 300.
Education: Graduated from Harvard with honors at 16.
Achievements: Clerical clerk.
Wrote a rather peculiar book, Notes on the Collection of Transfers — all about streetcar transfers.

Christopher Michael Langan.
Media Title: America's Smartest Man (according to the media).
Confirmed IQ: 190 to 210.
Achievements: bar bouncer.

These gentlemen could testify under oath before Congress: in the world we actually live in, IQ isn't a competitive advantage.

Not to mention, we humans have just embarrassingly lost the ultimate IQ battle to AI. Lost as a biological species.

Not that I’m an optimist, but I-amQ is our personal and species-wide shot at not spinning out on this turn in history.
Everything we once knew is going to hell.

Hey.
I'm the Human Torque Mechanic here.

— Aleksandr Myshkin.

I-amQ is my alternative to IQ.

The mission of this Garage —

I-amQ must grow.

Tools. No motivation.

The mechanics of I-am torque — what actually puts power to the pavement.
In this Garage, I build it, stress-test it, and run it under load.

• Building human torque
• Age —> Mileage Engineering
• 4-Wheel Drive as a life system

A few who know how the work gets done.
Right here in this Garage.
They’ve seen what it does.

Want to look under the hood of raw I-am —
and find out what Antarctica has to do with it?
That rabbit hole is on the — 
About page.

Want in?
Here, I engineer The Garage Letter. And The Old Tools.

The Garage Letter —
Everything I-amQ.

• Mindset Re-Torque
• Body Re-Bolt
• Age, Re-Built

For 4-Wheel Drive Life.

No cash, no PhD required.

The Old Tools —
The beat-up toolbox where I throw everything that actually puts Torque down to the wheels.

Collected, not assigned.

Grab it yourself —
Subscribe.

Onwards.