BHAGs and project ideas

From SolSeed

BHAGS

Jim Collins coined the term BHAG, "Big Hairy Audacious Goal"

• 10-30 year timeframe
• Big enough that we don't know how to reach it
• Examples:
  • JFK and putting a man on the moon
  • Starbucks wants to be the biggest brand in the world
• Important to how an organization grows

Thoughts on a SolSeed BHAG

• Brandon: Creating a society (physical not virtual)
  • Ben: A society that is about bringing life, and to some degree about being starfarers
  • Ted has built a housing co-op
  • Brandon: Need an interface of life-giving flows with the outside world
    • How to Disappear
  • Spiriata could be a sister society
• Ted: Pick something to try on provisionally

Near-term project ideas

• Kevin wants to choose at least one to start by March 30th (his birthday)
• Brenna: Educate people about healthy lifestyles
• Identify an existing project that could substantially benefit from our help
• Brandon: Seed repository
  • Bringing life to our neighborhoods in the process
• Bonnie: Create a space for women, esp. single mothers, to give them support
• Web resources
  • CleanDrinkingWater: would include interviews as well as website
    • Kevin's wife Lindsay could get involved
  • Ben: Spacefaring communities
    • Kevin: Does it already exist?
  • List of organizations and people that we consider to be kindred and hope to support
    • Possible goal: have a "bountiful" list by Sol 2009
    • Ted: Introduce those groups to each other and thus help the "greater movement" to become more self-aware
    • Brandon: Host an OpenSpace for all the ones we identify
      • Possible location: Portland Unitarian Universalist Church?
• Ted: Remake the Upward Spiral movie with better quality