Here I write my notes on what I see as teh core critical path for Hitchhikers over the next 42 weeks - that is from now to success:
- Improbable Platform. Online Infrastructure. We need a platform that is in the spirity of Hitchhikers, quirky, mutually owned, retro futuristic, beautiful in a quirky way, humourous, chaordic, but importantly fminimally unctional in a way that can support our growth. Let's call this mission critical prototying and organising space the Improbable Platform.
- Pledging and Ritual (in the pub}. We clarify the ask, in pure Hitchhiker style, and establish a ritual around pledging which feels just like the opening scene of the book. This is the Simple Ask.
- Basic infrastructure for the Mutual Ownership model, core compenents of which are the Improbable Lottery and the Improbable Economy. Teh feel of this should be Blockchain on a Napkin. Again something that can be done Down the Pub.
- We need to structure and offer the First Prize. This should be a 42k prize in cash and in time. We have a year to award it, and we should deliver for at least one, but aim for many many more.
- Wildly Improbable Experiences - we should create packages of these experiences, and a process for awarding them as prizes. These are Guided Tours of Earth or Life, the universe and Everything. We focus on these packages.
- Parallel, long term, sustainable growth of Academy Pilots. Without hype, steady volunteer run, grant funded pilots of the sort we devise with Thompson?