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DonaldFaulknor.com is a living body of work about real life, difficult systems, useful technology, human connection, and better futures.
Not a conventional blog
This platform connects lived experience with research, technical demonstrations, practical tools, project case studies, and proposals that can be examined instead of merely admired.
What brought you here?
Grounded writing about identity, uncertainty, endurance, and making a meaningful life before circumstances improve.
02 RelationshipsDating, communication, compatibility, boundaries, repair, breakups, and the strange translations inside human connection.
03 Work & MoneySkills, entrepreneurship, marketability, income pressure, and the economic reality behind “just work harder.”
04 TechnologyProgramming, architecture, websites, games, tools, technical decisions, and what working software actually proves.
05 SocietyHousing, benefits cliffs, bureaucracy, access, fairness, and the human cost hidden inside administrative rules.
06 FutureResearched proposals, conceptual models, feasibility questions, and better systems worth testing.
Featured work
One idea worth entering slowlyThe Human Story is my independent, non-accredited learning path through archaeology, history, human origins, Earth science, and the reconstruction of the past. I am pursuing it for curiosity and personal growth—not as a career change or professional credential.
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Attraction may create interest, but it cannot prove that two lives will work together. This chapter explains what compatibility means to me across family, time, money, communication, affection, responsibility, curiosity, conflict, and the future we might build.
People often see me sitting at a computer without seeing the programming, research, education, planning, and experimentation happening there. DonaldFaulknor.com is an owned personal knowledge platform designed to preserve that work and help people understand who I am beyond assumptions.
Parent Love Link must earn enough revenue to operate safely and grow, but I will not create artificial communication barriers and charge members to escape them. This case study explains the platform’s free core, ethical revenue boundaries, capital needs, investor rules, and regional launch strategy.
Parent Love Link was created to give single parents a chance to become known before being judged by a photograph. This case study explains the product philosophy, completed systems, remaining Alpha work, safety priorities, and standards that must be met before real testers are invited.
Hello. I’m Donald.
I have spent years creating software, websites, games, publishing systems, educational ideas, relationship frameworks, and plans for problems much larger than one person can solve alone. This site makes that range visible without pretending every attempt succeeded.
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The working thesis