Hi Billy, > Re: Starting over > > I like that theme; terrific, we can do something with it. > Great! How about we plan to spend this month brainstorming ideas, with the goal of spending February putting together a pitch that answers your two questions:
> There really are two questions to answer: > (1) How do we get noticed and > (2) What do we need by way of "product" to show to people who are curious > and willing to give us a try? > Here's a thought to get the ball rolling. > > I first came up with the idea for myself > I’m very curious to hear what your ideal job for yourself would be! > Suppose you -or me, or Chris of Mike- had several million $$ to spend on > RC. > To be honest, if I had that money I’m wouldn’t want to spend it on jobs. I’d launch an RC Social Ventures fund, providing grants and X-prizes to spur the development of RC-based self-sustaining social enterprises. > Well, one thing that can be done is to commission researchers to dig deeply > into the abuse of social media, a really hot topic these days. > Yeah, I heard about several such companies from Stable Genius this season: https://www.stableg.com/ > Doing what? What exactly would you expect for the money? What kind of > results? > > a contract for Ernie... to work on the kind of thing he did for the original > Wikipedia article. Then I'd put him in charge of getting Radipedia off the > drawing boards and find some way to monetize it, > Thanks for the thought, but I actually have zero interest in being a professional writer. Projection again on your part? Would you want that job? > For Chris, it is a natural for him to become "the voice of Radical > Centrism." I'd put him on radio right away, or if possible, have him host a > TV show. > I’d rather have Chris in charge of reinventing our legal system along RC lines, based on mediation instead of adversarial conflict. Let him keep his day job part time, but give him a staff to do research and advocacy. > For Mike, he would be in charge of the political desk. He would be responsible > for following all news relevant to RC, everything from the new attitude of > recently elected Representatives for working across the aisle, to proposals > for > bipartisan legislation. When he has extra time I'd like him to research > how ideas of the Founding Fathers sometimes anticipated the principles > in Radical Centrism. Mike, you still there? Or consumed with parenthood? I think I would just fund Mike to run for office > The results of everyone's work would show up in an RC-centric e-newspaper > and our broadcast media. And, of course, on our brand new bells and whistles > award winning website So what kind of job would YOU like Billy? What kind of management structure works best for you? What type of deadlines and deliverables brings out your best work? To be honest, if I was your boss the first thing I’d do is hire you a personal secretary (a man, sorry; otherwise it would be too distracting. :-). His job would be to manage all the grunt work of your life: technology, schedules, errands, etcetera. We’d work in 8 week cycles: two weeks of evaluation and planning followed by six weeks of execution. You would have enormous freedom to decide what you do. The only hard requirement is that you absolutely MUST ship what you promised out to the chosen audience by end of six weeks — or you don’t get paid. If the audience doesn’t like it, you still get paid. However, if succeeds (relative to metrics we defined in advance), you would be eligible for a bonus of up to 100% of your salary. So, does that sound like a job from heaven or the job from hell? :-) Ernies -- -- Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community <[email protected]> Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/RadicalCentrism Radical Centrism website and blog: http://RadicalCentrism.org --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
