Opportunity and Ideal

When you genuinely like to work, love to create and live to produce, what does the ideal opportunity look like?  How will you know you've found it if your preferred method of operation is to immerse yourself in everything you do?  I’ve been trying to find a way to differentiate for some time now, while at the same time attempting to maintain my own impossibly high standards and levels of quality relative to what I do and what I expect in return.

Clearly I am always looking.  My favorite stage of work arguably is the idea-generation and nascent venture stage, where the only bankable capital is human energy, luck and determination.  (I suppose there is also the strong underlying desire to determine or control one's own destiny involved.)  I've been working for a while now at a respectably steady pace and income, sort of a top-of-the-game technical level, but have grown weary wondering when and from where satisfaction will finally come.

In the great disintermediation that is the Internet, where whole industries and ways of life have been displaced like nomads in a storm, my preferred milieu, the global enterprise has grown all out of proportion and agility, they are literally chained to the mast of convention and determined to hold on until the last man dies or the tournament pay runs out, whichever comes first.  I've railed against this in as many ways as I could, especially now when we are sitting on what could be the best product of its kind at the very moment where we could own the market for this emerging technology.

We as a company are paralyzed.  We can't fight, for fear of alienating any potential suitor.  We can't innovate for lack of funds and customers and we can only talk about the revolution like someone who was close to the action, but not like someone who started something.  The semantic web is coming fast and furious and presence is the service layer interface to the attention economy.  It has been said presence is the dial tone of the 21st century. 

I need, I want a third alternative.  I don't want to stay and watch us starve ourselves out of this opportunity.  I don't want to leave or look right now unless I have no choice.  Somewhere there has to be someone else who needs me as much as I need them.  Somewhere an idea is dying to be born, someone really wants to give back as much as I do and I want to help.  I’ve participated in several notable venture attempts as proxy CEO but did not find explicitly the equity or package that I concluded would make me leave to run a new venture.

We are on the verge of an unimaginable shift in politics, economics, relationships and human potential.  It is so big and conceivably so catalytic the ideas need to be bigger and better than ever before.  These paradigm changing ideas need precedence and priority ahead of the market.  They need air, they need breadth and depth, they need to scale globally and we all need to step into our new shoes and be more than human.

I welcome any and all requests for enlightenment, education, innovation, partnerships, participation and revolution.  If you can do it I can help.  If you can’t I probably can.  Anyway you look at it there is much to be done and more to be gained.