Nathan Cravens

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The Confession

I exist? NOW! Let's forward!

Slogan

"Autonomy through Communication"

TO DO

• To do what? Why? Okay!
• Accept or refine as needed or preferred.

In Progress

Personal

• Purchase food and tent from The Great & Grand Blue Box. Intend to fabricate the needs they generate later!
• Is being challenged head-on with "low hanging fruit" syndrome; a viable product of Industry
  • Application is coming...

Factor-e-cation

• Experiment with camera and editing software

01/29/09

Factor-e-cation

• Participate in group activities and do simple observation
• Read OSE wikis; reflect

Personal

• I'm being confronted with my hermit self... I need to create a healthy general routine.
• Looking now for a cheap vid cam after a series of poor experiences with sales people.

Follow-up

• Struck a deal with Marcin to keep financial resources in the Factor e chain: video camera acquired
• Will fiddle with software and camera. Thanks Jeremy for your help with the software installation! (Because "thank you's" "sorry's" ect are words of an alienated society, I will abandon them; (Unless speaking with the Industrially conditioned) they represent the "stick and carrot," restrictions and allowances from others for an "unavailable" resource; I make this choice because our aim is this: "of course you are 'thankful' if it works or 'sorry' if it does not. Therefore: there is no reason to speak them aloud." I am mindful that the words are due to permission and dependence; and the uncertainty of acceptance--or rather--Compassion is the only reason the words are evoked.)

01/28/09

Factor e-cation

• Gedder to tha shidder!
• Kitchen detail
• Congratulate without reason; report findings.
• Place a video camera, via communications to the GLOBAL INDUSTRIAL ENTERPRISE, into the incoming distribution chain.

The ego forming system-in-focus

• Physiological aliments need tending to:
  • Try the tent tonight.
  • Eat fruit, compile a list of healthy foods to attain, ask for suggestions

Follow-up

• Decided it was not valid to the project to make a report on saying "congratulations" without reason -- other than to say it.
• I seem to sleep well in the tent. I'll know for sure tomorrow.
• The video camera is not in the chain due to 1) coming to grips with spending money on a large scale and 2) The cameras sold online are advertised falsely; when calling one retailer the guy gave me a load of bunk for, I assume his own entertainment, with: "you are the winning caller" "comes with two 12 hour batteries" ect. All phone calls made seemed to be directed to schemers in the North East. I'm now lookin for the cheapest of the cheap camcorder in the spirit of Open Souce: freer the better.

Personal Contribution

Week Schedule

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.
• Accept and refine as needed or preferred

Week 2. February 3 - February 10

To be continued into long term...

Self Motivation with Factor e Focus

• 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. 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.
• Research methods of documentation for simplified product replication.
• 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!

Ass in the Grass!

• Generally: what human element is needed for the day-to-day ecology function, preexisting and arranged to generate optimum homoeostasis?
• How can the ecology arrangement be revised to best meet our needs and preferences? Factor-e'ing: motion as constant.
• What would you like to remain "closed loop" or "statically in motion" so that you may attend to other occupations?
• Details of various foundational recursions are now in a state of contemplation!