Attendees

  • Kris
    • Ideas meeting retreat: A fun collective retreat to chill and do creative work
  • Zee
    • “I have a tiny house…”
  • Riz
    • Chemical sourcing in Vancouver
  • Steve
    • Microscooter
  • Owen
    • Microfiber towels
  • Sasha
    • “I don’t have any good ideas tonight, I’ve been busy being productive”

Ideas

Kris

  • 3 day weekend or friday night where we go somewhere? Maybe on the island. First step would be to go check out AirBnB and see whats there?
  • Also should we have an agenda? Or a limit?
  • What’s the intention? Just a big ideas weekend? Get a Shaman in there?
  • It depends on weekend and the budget? it will help knowing what we want to do.
  • We would have to rent a car to go to the island though.
  • Maybe we can work from there too.
  • if you can get everyone to put in $50, you can get a castle in Spain!
  • Maybe you can get some crazy rich house in West Van
  • Each member can facilitate something they’re interested in.
  • Possibly we can have some facilitation within the core group and then grow from there in subsequent “workshops”
  • Should do a Decision Tree poll for this?
  • What dates should we do?

Judgement Exercise

  • Every one present is going to private write 5 immediate judgements they have about each other on a piece of paper. These will be read out by Kris anonymously to the whole group. This is an exercise to expose your immediate judgements about other people.
  • We can do this at the retreat as well.

Plea for help

  • Sourcing raw material from factories
  • Talking to naturceutical company (something that doesn’t require clinical trial)
  • non-medicinal chemicals for making tablets
  • Know anyone importing 1000s of KGs?
  • Export Development Canada
  • Magnesium sterate, steric acid, silicon dioxide (aerosil)
  • What are the risks associated with this business?
  • Customs clearance?
  • What does the contract look like? What are the conditions to not pay full price?

Microdistance

  • Microscooter
  • Folds out of a laptop bag, smaller than a skateboard or scooter
  • 3-4x faster than walking
  • June 10th & 11th is Makerfaire
  • Snow Crash
  • Magic Leap - $540mm raised
  • We should start a book club!
    • Snow Crash
    • Ready Player One
    • Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
    • “I don’t have time, I have to build a hoverboard” - Steve
  • Utility and function first
  • Airport perhaps?

Trippy towels

Efferfescent Tablets

  • Sana Plus
  • Kris: Berocca, not sure why it never made it to North America
  • Hangover cure in convenience stores

Screen wraps around your arm

Tiny House

Measure your discipline

  • Meditation tracking - The Calm app
  • Set more controllable goals - The Theory of Planned Behaviour
  • What influences your actual behaviour (The perception you have on the control of your behaviour)
  • Believe you can and you will perform it better than those who don’t believe they can
  • Do things you know you can do “Go to the gym for 30 minutes” instead of “Lose weight” - You control only one these directly
  • “My discipline is in line with how guilty I feel”
  • Kaizen - Do one minute of it
  • “I use golden ratio, fibonnaci – patterns found in nature”
  • Think of a metaphor, for writing

Podcasts