Tag-teaming
Dateline: SWA flight from BWI to Indy, 15 August 2005
Four-hour-plus meeting today with senior intelligence player with a lot of interesting issues on his plate, and the event marked my first tag-team effort in many months. Tired of traveling solo all the time, this trip saw me pair up with new vision partner Steve DeAngelis from Enterra Solutions, and I must say that it worked much better than I had anticipated (me, the king of low expectations on partnering-I am a commitmentaphobe on such things).
Okay, okay, I can't run a global movement for world change all by myself!
Still, being a visionary (and no, I do not shy from that self-description because either you're in it all the way or not at all when it comes to grand strategy) makes one's wary of teaming up with anyone. Gotta keep it real and pure and . . . uh . . . visionary! And once you start adjusting to anyone else's "future worth creating," then you risk getting your message diluted.
But Steve doesn't seem to present that problem, so much so that we're working on a joint book proposal right now, one that I think would be a blast to write and might even come in under 75k words (just like I promised for both PNM and BFA and then overshot in both instances by roughly . . . oh . . . ANOTHER 75k WORDS!). This high-concept book wouldn't be the planned third in the PNM trilogy (I know, I know, I count chickens while eggs aren't even quivering yet, but I'm in my forties so I gotta make hay while the sun still shines), but the first in a different series, sort of a "Blanket-blank's New Map" (even though I'd never advocate that approach in the title selection … or would I?).
Still in the discussion/early-planning stage, this book concept, so getting a chance to hit the streets with Steve in some meetings over the past two days was pretty useful.
Next up? I'm thinking Molyvos in NYC with Mark Warren. If we're serious about the book concept, I'd like to bring him into the mix if he can spare the time.
Here's the daily catch:
■ Updating old blogs, old positions■ Looking backward, looking forward on the SysAdmin function
■ Islam's reformation will occur in the Core, Christianity's in the Gap