Starting today, 1/9/2024, I moved into my basement (not my mom's, my wife's), packed my belongings, and committed to a 19 day sprint. Consider this a bootcamp (this entire idea was inspired by my time in SFAS).
A sprint to what? Product sprint, development sprint, founder sprint, focus sprint, or maybe more like a self-accelerator. Effective acceleration, I suppose.
The goal is the following (ideas started here):
Keep a stream live for 19 consecutive days, live-stream and stream of thought.
Create 3 artifacts; (1) a "self-accelerator" outline, (2) a pitch deck (Sequoia template), (3) a product mvp.
Move an idea from 0-to-1, in public, answering questions I have wondered, mostly alone, as a founder, a web3 tech adopter, and a Farcaster community member (I have casted most of them).
One of the biggest things I wish to accomplish, what can be done when you clear the floor of almost all distractions, and focus all the energy into an idea. Can you truncate 8-months of "meandering" into 19-days.
I personally have witnessed this answer to be yes. Not for the things I am attempting now, for other(s).
What can be done as a first-time founder, leaning heavily into a community of builders (Farcaster), with a "whimsical" idea, can we turn it into something real?
Let's see.
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What to measure the next 19 days + questions.
Progress on 3 artifacts. (deck, mvp, growth and outline of
Downtime/uptime of live stream.
Number of meetings.
Number of times I am not working on the idea (eg. losing connecting with the sense of flow and integration of the idea).
As we move to smaller and smaller teams, can more and more be done with just 1-person that can focus?
Is decentralization and terminally online highly connected?
Is the future of compounding attention to grow it over minutes, hours, days, to produce new connections, new opportunities? (not weeks or months)
What does it look like to take an idea and move it along the design process? (like the squiggle design)
this is one way, my way, some may view this as too much, too little, or somewhere in-between. I have found my brain struggles to stream without being connected to the public stream.
This list will continue to grow..
