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Hi, I’m Randy Stewart.

I want to thank my wife, Beverly, for name of this channel. She has been a worldview teacher for many, many years (need to be careful there) and coined the wise saying, "Live with your brain turned on" for use with her students. I use it here with her blessings. This channel is about worldview.

For most of my career I have been a high tech data integration expert before being suddenly "retired" at age 64. My credentials are I ingest information voraciously, I observe patterns, I think critically and I communicate clearly. I am a lifelong learner and integrator. I will be actively learning until my last breath. I always want to know why. I love diving into details and I quickly see patterns, making me a proficient troubleshooter and puzzle solver in many domains. 

I am told that I am good at explaining complex technical subjects to others who are not technical. This was at the core of my career of the last 30 years in computer systems involving integration, databases, AI and distributed network systems that required deep knowledge of several business domains. For the last 14 years of those years I have been deeply immersed in healthcare systems, many of my customers being household names and large multi-national companies. 

So, why would I start this channel? 

The short answer is I want you to learn to think critically - yes - to think with your brain turned on.

In 2018 I began a health journey sparked by my need to stop gaining weight. Of course, my "desire to know why" led me down a rabbit hole into the whole, complex world of biology, microbiology, health, nutrition, longevity and more as I searched for root causes I could fix. As it turns out, that was just in time to be prepared for the challenges presented to all of us at the beginning of 2020. By that time, from 2018 to 2019, I had lost 110 pounds, was healed of my chronic diseases like arthritis, myalgia, muscle weakness, brain fog, high blood pressure, type II diabetes and other essentially "normal" chronic diseases of old age. Now I no longer believe they should be accepted as normal and see our environment, diet, lifestyle and relationships as the keys to good health and well being. Now in my 60’s I act and feel like I am in my 30’s again. This is one of the key areas we will explore together as I share what changed for me, where to find out more and hear from you.

I have a deep love and understanding of science. My natural bent towards scientific knowledge started early. I also love math and logic and learned about digital logic circuits and different number base systems like binary and hexadecimal while in grade school, long before I had any idea of their future usefulness when digital computers came into the market a decade later. I am a problem solver. I solve puzzles. I discover what is wrong when something is broken and figure out how to fix it. As a child my parents would ask me to fix things when they broke because they knew I would figure it out. I am skilled at collecting and interpreting data into observations to inform actions. Part of my ability in separating truth from error is my attention to not only what IS said, but also to what is NOT said. It is also important to pay attention to HOW something is said. I tend to be suspicious of things that demand blind acceptance or seem too simple or don't line up with long held reasoning and beliefs or are misaligned with observable facts. And I ALWAYS want to know WHY. If you cannot tell me WHY, then I want to know WHY you cannot. 

My mission now is to uncover and provide the information people need to think critically by digging for the data that may be difficult to find, or understand or is actively suppressed. I have opinions, yes, I do. But I am not here to feed you my opinions. I want you to have access to the data I am finding - and I am good at finding data. I also want you to share data that you uncover. Sure, we will share interpretations of the data, too. Feel free to disagree with me if your interpretation is different from mine. If you have data I don’t have please share it. That is how I learn. That is how we learn. When questions are asked, I have to think and research more deeply on a subject to get a more complete answer. I don’t want to tell you what to think. I want us to share information with each other for fully informed critical thinking. We will not always agree but we should at least be able to understand and explain why we don’t.

I believe my unique blend of skills and strong, tested worldview will inspire us all to not only hear and understand, but take action. God created us to be free and our freedom now literally depends on our action.

I have a lot of smart friends. I hope you become one of them.

Randy

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You can contact me at livewithyourbrainturnedon@substack.com.

-Randy

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