Daniel Comp has spent decades fulfilling the Star Trek phrase; "to boldly go where no man has gone before". His early passion for physics and travel led him to serve in Vietnam with a US Navy nuclear propulsion specialty as a 2nd-Class Petty Officer. Following an epic glacier fall and recovery from paralysis he served 8 years in Youth With a Mission (YWAM) working with television celebrity chef, Graham Kerr (Galloping Gourmet ). Daniel's passion for achieving, learning and contributing is demonstrated daily - and consistently over decades - in his leadership in open-source software and enterprise collaboration.
As an entrepreneur he built his boutique design + development firm with 17 employees creating projects across the Puget Sound (Tacoma/Seattle). Then the physicists at CERN birthed the internet and Daniel discovered his 'vehicle'. In 1997 he aimed his learning and creativity at world-class IT.
The early web brought a series of fabulous projects and creative opportunities, through which Daniel's role as Chief Technical Officer (CTO) has led Intelligent Netware to grow in capability to become a pioneer and world leader in digital franchising and syndication fractals. In July and August 2013 he set two IT World Records for Intelligent Netware, and four more in 2014-15 for a total of seven. The Onus Probandi on this is the network of WBC websites that syndicate all the WBC content.
As the Co-founder and CTO of a boutique web tech and marketing company, Daniel has decades of sacrifice making a difference for the underdog, challenged and misfortuned. His life experiences are notable, filed with creativity, passion and commi...
I've spent five decades sorting this out to find out why I do what I do. The journey starts with knowing how vulnerable you are and how easily you are bamboozled and duped and hoodwinked and long conned and gamed. There are a dozen ways that stories and emotions can be used again...
Frustration, fear, rage, anxiety and even suicide are the norm for many people. It doesn't have to be this way for you. Going from ignorance and a lack of self-awareness to fulfillment and happiness is an expedition. It's a journey with a purpose. It's a personal Everest that sta...
We are pattern recognizing beings - especially in U.S.. We learn by building on memories which form patterns. These eventually become habits. Some are good. Some are not. Some habits come from numerous and long-standing patterns. Understanding how we are 'gamed' and ...
Combining a simple illusion with a questionable story you'll experience what it means to be 100% wrong - half the time. You see, when a simple story meets our 20-watt brain we overlook truth in favor of the emotions connected to the story in U.S.. We are regularly ba...
U.S. residents are hording toilet paper, hand wipes, frozen and canned food. It's as if they fear the end of the world. Abundance and scarcity are concepts. You can't pick them up. You have to imagine those concepts in your mind. The problem is... our emotions easily...
We're surrounded with abundance, yet few people speak about it. That's because it's NOT the normal circumstance for our history. Famine, plague, war, disaster... these were our normal, so our biology betrays us in an age of abundant food, health, peace and prosperity. So, what's ...
Most of us are unaware of how often stories mislead us. In this episode of Leaving Scotomaville, Daniel demonstrates how storytelling is a super-power. We might call it fake news, mis-information, or simply a lie, but it narrows our world-view never-the-less. In this episode of L...
Do you ask yourself questions like I do? Why do I get so emotional? What can I do with false beliefs? These are reasonable questions. In this episode of Leaving Scotomaville, Daniel shares a mental tool that has helped a great deal. Learning to peel back layers of your beliefs to...
Living in a 19' Airstream during a global pandemic will focus your attention on the tiny stuff in U.S.. A simple focus on keeping clean easily turns into fixation. The attention required in every direction becomes emotional. The 'fix' list causes stress. Then there's...
Learning to share the emotions within us is nearly impossible without a decent emotional vocabulary. Most guys just stuff it all. Too tough. You can learn new words, experience more adventure (and defeat) with a broader emotional vocabulary. It's one of the couple dozen tools req...
In music, a 'hook' is an intentionally addictive set of lyrics and beat. It sticks in our mind and plays over and over and over... It can be maddening. It's a fabulous thing to be able to get noise out of your head and be inside a place that is quiet. That is... WHEN you have cle...
When you look down, do you see a belly or your shoes? Do you see a gut or laces? Did you know that we are only 10% human and 90% microbe? There's a coup underway. It's 100 trillion microbes against your intention. By feeding our gut, rather than our taste buds, we can culture our...
There's a saying; "when the student is ready, the teacher will appear." The street version of this goes; "great opportunities always show up looking like hard work." The banner image is from a year before shooting/writing Scotomaville. Full-time tent camping made living in a 19' ...
Most of us are known for talents and skills that we have honed over decades. Many of our strengths are direct outcomes of childhood wounds. We're experts at our top coping mechanisms, with tens of thousands of hours practice. Our NORMAL offends other people because it TRUMPS thei...
Untangling fact from fiction, beliefs from truth, and getting traction on your Personal Everest is far more certain with this nifty tool. Using a simple principle from navigation, you can calm your fears and spouse with much more certainty and committed action. Learn the usefulne...
It's super easy to wrongly apply the geometric axiom that; "the shortest distance between two points is a straight line." It's no wonder then that we trigger when life happens between our plans. We expect to make certain progress in a reasonable time, but we are mistaken. Life is...
Today is May 16th, 2020. 50 years ago, I clearly remember looking at the Porsche 911 that I had put together from a plastic kit on my shelf, and watching model airplanes slowly spin on their monofilament while imagining this day. It seems that life is full of curves. Checking off...
Author and Curator of 'Scotomaville', Daniel Comp shares the background and purpose of the book and video series. "Know Thyself is no longer a luxury - it's a full-out competition." If you are willing to leave the garbage in your backpack behind and set foot toward your personal ...
Once you fully commit so you can't turn back, then all sorts of manner of things occur that we never would have expected. In the most wonderful ways, people and resources, and events turn up. I finished the first Trans-America believing that at the right time the butterfly story ...
I really want for you to become more than just self-aware - you know seeing what it is you do. I want you to become understanding - knowing why you do what you do WYDWYD. Better than that, having the discipline to chart a path into new horizons to create a life for yourself that ...
Learning HOW to learn will accelerate skill and life mastery. This episode demonstrates the process of becoming self-aware with examples from wind-foiling in the Columbia Gorge. Becoming consciously incompetent requires courage to accept failure in order to become consciously com...
What you can expect about expectations is that they are strongly linked to your strengths - which are your coping mechanisms from your childhood wounds. Therefore they are absolutely strong indicators of patterns and habits that are ripe for adjustment. Have a look at your streng...
Storytelling is a superpower. The story you tell yourself determines how much effort you're going to make. Therein is the superpower. The story you choose for yourself. The facts you align with your worldview determine the effort you're gonna make. In the midst of all that effort...
Preparation demands that we act 'as-if' long before the evidence changes other people's thinking. Most people are being gamed by algorithms tuned for profit. The recommendations and search results you get are precise, but often not accurate. Do the hard work of seeking out the so...
Video modeling is an effective method of learning and personal transformation. When likable characters relate heartfelt frustrations, discover unwanted character traits, and demonstrate practical tools that change false beliefs into superpowers, the example can be inspiring, inst...
If you are a young man near U.S., you must feel a sense of shame, gloom, a lack of guidance, a missed connection. I can assure you Veterans near U.S. feel a subtle call to duty, a yearning to lead in a unique battle, an angst to show the way for others t...
We start most adventures with more energy, and far less knowledge. We usually get fired up like a Fiat 500, unaware of the challenges ahead. We think the adventure is all about discovering new lands, unaware that it is all about seeing with new eyes. We're soon stuck in the middl...
Veterans have a unique perspective on well-being. We were taught survival skills, and are willing to endure hardships for the sake of others. Sorely missing in higher education across U.S. are role models that demonstrate sacrifice, perseverance, and compassion. I've...
Veterans are pretty special people. We have given years of our youth in the service of God and Country, and the men and women of U.S.. Unfortunately, we have seen and experienced challenges few civilians understand, and which most humans would never want to know abou...
As a Vietnam Era Navy Veteran, I understand some of the battle wounds that the military distributed - and - the U.S. public heaped on us when we returned to civilian life. Most of us buried our service history like a stinky pair of shoes. The cost was far worse inter...
You might not expect such an entertaining guide for your military veteran's group in U.S.. Daniel Comp has crafted an engaging and humorous video series based on real-life events. Participants will quickly grasp the transparency, and depth of the content. I demonstra...
Created for Veteran Counselors near U.S., this workshop is a very interactive and participatory event. You'll finish each session with unexpected insights from thought provoking experiences. The Scotomaville workshop is in-person, and highly interactive. It is filled...
This U.S. veteran Counselor training is in-person, and highly interactive. It is filled with hands-on exercises, live and video recorded demonstrations that are insightful and thought provoking. You'll see your physical blind-spots, understand your thinking short-cut...
This is a very interactive and participatory workshop. You'll finish each session with unexpected insights from thought provoking experiences. It is also an introduction to the 336 page book, and 48 video episodes, packed into seven hours of attention grabbing examples, truths, a...
As the Author and Curator of ‘Scotomaville’, I believe; “The greatest expedition you’ll ever undertake is the journey to self-understanding”. This is because a successful expedition is not simply about discovering new lands, but in seeing with new eyes. That is the marvel of lear...
Storytelling is a human super-power. Unfortunately, cognitive bias prepares us as targets for those that aim to leverage our ignorance. The good news is that there is a way out of the tangled thinking we fall for. The story we tell our-self turns out to be the most important one ...