I’ve been trying to figure out how to start this for longer than I’d like to admit.
Not because I don’t know what to say — I have too much to say, and that’s always been the problem. My brain doesn’t work in neat little chapters. It works in explosions. Ideas stacked on ideas, tangents that turn into entire projects, 2am revelations that rewrite everything I thought I knew the day before. If you’ve ever felt like your mind is a gift and a curse in the same breath, we’re already speaking the same language.
My name is Jason Timm. I’m a father of four, an Air Force veteran, a founder, a builder, and — for most of my life — an outlier.
Not the kind that gets celebrated. The kind that gets overlooked. The kind that walks into a room full of people who all seem to understand the rules of a game you were never taught. The kind that has a vision so vivid it keeps you up at night, but when you try to explain it, people look at you like you’re speaking a language that doesn’t exist yet.
I’ve spent my entire adult life building things — businesses, ideas, systems, sometimes from nothing more than stubbornness and a refusal to accept that the world works the way everyone tells me it does. Some of those things have succeeded. Some have failed spectacularly. All of them taught me something I couldn’t have learned any other way.
Right now, I’m building Terranova Station — a 48,000 square foot immersive sci-fi entertainment venue that I believe will change how people experience storytelling. I also run Epic Adventures VR, a free-roam virtual reality gaming venue in Vancouver, Washington. I’m developing intellectual property, building AI infrastructure, raising kids, managing ADHD, and trying to hold all of it together with the same two hands everyone else gets.
So why this blog?
Because I wish someone had shown me their path when I was younger. Not a highlight reel — the real thing. The doubt. The breakthroughs. The days where you wonder if you’re delusional and the days where you know — you know — that you’re onto something the rest of the world just hasn’t caught up to yet.
An Outlier’s Odyssey is my attempt to offer snapshots of that journey. Not advice — I’m not arrogant enough to think I have all the answers. But perspective. The kind you only get from someone who’s been in the trenches, who’s failed forward enough times to recognize the difference between giving up and letting go.
If you’re someone who has always felt like you don’t quite fit — in your career, your relationships, your own head — I’m writing this for you. Not to tell you it gets easier. But to show you that the path gets clearer when you stop trying to walk someone else’s.
Welcome to the odyssey. Let’s see where it goes.
