We’ve spent the last couple weeks struggling with post-event letdown and follow-up. It’s been kind of frustrating, honestly. There was the sleep deprivation and general recovery time needed after an intense week of long hours. Somehow I’d imagined the time after the events as being restful, relaxing, working less frantically and with a clear mind. Instead, there were all these follow-on details that had to be handled – newsletters, lost & found, processing videos, networking, cleaning and storing all our new equipment (marine radios, medical kits, life preservers), all sorts of things that are important to do, yet not as exciting as the events, nor directly furthering our strategic priorities.So it’s taken some time to re-orient ourselves from “Our lives are all about creating these two events” back to our mission: “To further the establishment and growth of permanent, autonomous ocean communities, enabling innovation with new political and social systems.” We’ve gotten through most of the follow-up and are once again trying to figure out how to bridge the difficult gap from today’s world to our envisioned future. Our new engineering intern is hard at work on quantitative analysis of the most promising seastead designs, and a business intern will start in a couple weeks to research our business plans. We are fleshing out the details of the strategy we presented at the conference to build the world’s first autonomous seastead by 2015, and working with our board on fundraising ideas.
It’s a long, uncertain road, with a lot of work needed before we achieve any results, but if there were an easy way to increase freedom it would have already happened! It’s great to be working on what we love, with the hope of making the world better.
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