RE: Ditch the security blanket: You don't need a Plan B
I have two dreams that keep me awake at night and drive much of every decision I make. I dreamed up a peer to peer network system that would work as a total decentralised internet, with file sharing, discussion forums, an agorised anonymisation and internet connection payment system, a credit market, insurance, digital legal estates and numerous other things. The other dream I have is of building a machine that allows everyone to space travel. A device for producing super-efficient propulsion that works within our atmosphere and anywhere in space.
I don't know how I am going to garner the funds to start this but basically, it is not an expensive endeavour, I just need to be able to feed and house myself and spend maybe a few tens of thousands on building the experimental devices in my workshop, and obviously, having also some time to work on the programming and design.
I am really just waiting for capable collaborators and then to set up an investment pool for people to bring the funds required to make it happen. I am personally lost as to how to do this and with my 9-5 it's nearly impossible to devote any time to it.
Wow that sounds pretty ambitious - I like! It is hard to balance 9-5 and working on creative dreams on the side without getting burn out. Most people who go it alone have done that at some point. I am all for making the leap at the right time. My only advice is don't wait for all the stars to align, there is never going to be a comfortable transition point. The best time is when you feel ready for the challenge.
I think that time is now, but it is going to take a little work in my journalist capacity and maybe a little entrepreneurship as an organiser of trade to make it happen. All the ingredients are in play and now I have the free time to to really make these projects start to happen. I need to find some investors as well, the business projects are pretty sure bets but they need a little more funding to really get up and running. I am very optimistic and for sure, what has gone before, is absolutely not the way forward. It was a stepping stone from the past needed to get me into a position where I am actually living in a house, with a computer, and the rest, I think is coming soon.