Patri's Projects

I have a lot of ideas. Having ideas is easy. Implementing them, however, takes a lot of time and hard work, so that part is going a bit slowly. Here are some of my ideas, both completed and speculative.

Completed Projects

• Burning Man 2002 Balloon Project. Haven't you always wanted to lift yourself into the air with helium balloons? Burning Man is a great excuse for fulfilling such childhood fantasies.

Ongoing Projects

• Alpine Butterfly Lodge. The ABL is a communal house of which I am a resident and co-owner.
• Seastead. One path towards the "Independent Libertarian Country" vision which is described below is to somehow create new livable land on the oceans. Like most new country projects, most suggestions for this are foolishly idealistic (FMF's Atlantis, New Utopia). Wayne Gramlich's Seastead is the first realistic plan I've seen. Conveniently, he lives in the same town as me, so we are collaborating on the project. Much progress is being made.
• Simple Online Commenting System. I wrote this simple package to get feedback on the seasteading paper. It takes webpages and adds commenting for each paragraph. Simple yet effective. The SOCS index page, of course, can be commented on using SOCS :).

Visions

• Ephemerisle. A proposed experiment in temporary autonomous anarcho-capitalist community. An idea I had for an occasional gathering to be held periodically in international waters. Its a great idea, but it needs to wait until there is a full-sized Seastead to host it.
• Intentional Community. I enjoy living communaly, and currently live in a group house which may someday expand to a larger community, which I hope to be part of if I'm still in the country.
  
• Independent Libertarian Country. I am a devoted libertarian, detest living in a big-government country, and have little hope of it changing. The vast majority of governments on this planet are based on non-consensual interactions. I think the best hope for freedom is for someone to found an independent country, which unfortunately seems to be very difficult. Other people have efforts underway in this direction, but none have yet been succesful.
  
• Project-Based Living Website. As we move towards a digital future and job tenure becomes shorter (at least here in the Bay Area), life is getting closer towards what I see as ideal: Projects instead of jobs. Projects are like jobs but more flexible in some ways - time commitment, time duration, salary, responsibility, and more limited in others - like they have a finite time horizon. I think this would be a much more enjoyable, dynamic way to go through life. This is kinda The Cathedral And The Bazaar applied to jobs.
  
• Artwork. I have several great ideas for art, but unfortunately I am not much of an artist. I shan't be more specific because plagiarism is so easy. If only I could find someone who is an artist but doesn't have enough ideas...