Nathan Cravens

TO DO

Week 1. January 27 - February 3

• Get a feel for the scene: Participate in activities to best accelerate.
• Learn about the priorities of the effort, the 'we' that generate it, the individual motivations, and the underlying focus-points behind the motivation.
• Contemplate on the "accountability loop" Marcin addressed.
• Acquire a video camera
• Learn video editing software
• Study methods of video documentation and general documentation to fit the goals.

Week 2. February 3 - February 10

To be continued into long term...

For Self Motivation

• Be Open Source with Open Source Ecology, Effortless Economy, and the broader consequences of human occupation on Earth.
• Assist in the construction of viable designs and learn design construction as prototypes are developed.
• Think and apply in terms of "rapid construction," a task-by-task method that constructs useful tools for minimal toil and maximum universal benefit.
• Research methods of documentation for simplified product replication. This may be called "task-by-task knowledge transfer for product construction," or placed another way, "technological transfer acceleration through multimedia," or further reduced to "rapid construction." Before rapid prototyping comes rapid construction. Rapid construction is essential for a technological change that benefits by greater degrees than before.
• Through observation: refine and test a theory of collaboration generation based on the fundamental success of open source software: "what helps me helps you"
• Develop "what helps me helps you" so that it may reduce to the greatest extent: universal cost.
• "What helps me helps you" is an expression of the "dual benefit," an emerging shift in the meaning of self interest.
• If it does not feel right, reflect on why. If it does feel right, also reflect.

When we, the Factor e team, are gathered for reflection for fabrication

• Why are we here?
• What are the priorities of the effort, what are we generating here, what are your motivations, and what are your underlying focus-points behind the motivation?
• What would you like to see happen at Factor e farm? What are your goals?
• What intellectual and material resources are to be acquired or fabricated?
• How best can I help to rapidly end the goal so that you may generate another?
• How do the feelings resonate with the thought on the matter?
• Weed it out; then; start planting!