Attendees

  • Clayten
  • Olusha (minutes)
  • Mark
  • Oleg
  • Shirley
  • Ran
  • Kris (chair)

Minutes

  • Where is your most creative space? Discussion.
    • Shower, when I change my route, when travelling, meditation, changing place/space
    • Trauma is a catalyst
    • Not from meetings!
    • Culmination of subconscious and conscious thoughts
    • Changing Experiences
    • Imagine alternate designs by throwing out your defaults/easiest (Clayten)
    • Meditation / not actively thinking about the problem but thinking about something very different
    • PLAY!
    • Time off for neutral / mental health
    • Flexible schedule … stable income vs caring only 9-5 (if that)
    • Ownership of one’s ideas stimulates more
    • MEANING from your ideas – A BURNING desire to make change in the world
  • Kris: Product: Sunvisor in vehicle to handle when driving into a sunset
    • Proposed solution solves the space below the traditional visor and the dashboard for when the sun is there
    • Instead of opaque, uses translucent material like sunglasses that allows full visibility while blocking sun’s brightness
    • Use for more than cars, i.e. @home. Creates the ability to see through windows even when sunny
    • Expensive option could be digitally programmed, change dynamically, capture solar energy or redirect it, change polarization when angle os sun is low
    • A simple product that home depot could carry as a dark veneer to replace typical white blinds to allow this.
    • Could also be perforated instead of tinted, or even solar anels
    • Variable polarization LCDs (Clayten)
    • SAD compatible – leverage the stored light?
  • Mark:
    • Functional, affordable transportation system
      • Accessible, community-wide consulting
      • Not with the corrupt current PPP model / people / organizations
      • Consensous-driven solution w/ many diverse stakeholders
      • Participation – Incentivize people
      • Presupposition that progressives want a functional, affordable system, that is safe, and non-polluting.
      • The existing system is corrupt, based on a 4 year election cycle – it needs a flexible plan for change. How would a 20 or 100 year plan be possible where future governments can’t quash it
      • Don’t plan for vehicles, plan for land use
      • Hyperloop - teleportation as examples
      • Fundamental character of neighbourhoods built around streets
      • Could we have space elevators connect at the top? (Kris)
        • Perhaps with launchloop technology
  • Oleg: Create a company that hires immigrants based on willingness to work hard & make changes
    • 300,000 immigrants to Canada/year. Educated, motivated.
    • Not based on Canadian experience or degrees
    • Corproate structure & economy, HR has own procedures to cover their butts when hiring people such as immigrants
      • e.g. doctor coming from Syria, not not be a doctor here.
    • How to re-occupy people with new skills without heavy investment on their part. NO BIAS
    • Skills-based to share knowledge more fuidly. Hire objectively not subjectively.
      • Kris says idvpn.ca can help if someone builds the resume/application app.
      • It would make name/gender/age/etnicity etc (biases)
      • It would only show merit/skills
      • The app would require psychometrics as well to de-bias
    • Getting along in an interview is a lot easier to game and acheive than getting along in a team
    • “Hire for attitude, train for skill”
    • remove terrestrial degrees? Create a global level doctor/lawyer
    • (Kris) instead of fighting system, allow universities to easier offer this upgrade to global level option
    • Value of an immigrant goes up if they can do what they were trained and are experienced to do. Better to help in a hospital than drive a taxi
    • People could choose to pay more for professionals w/ best in the world standards
    • PureNorth, a company in Calgary is private sector, supports nurse practioners
    • Once self soverignty exists, epople will demand efficiency, and optimization of service
    • Google has realized controlling behaviour allows predicting behaviour even easier
    • Governance frameworks - not questions or looked at objectively, or 3rd party audited. This will likely result in revolution or … anarchy.
  • Shirley:
    • Canada relies too much on the U.S. Canada should do more w/ Asia Pacific than U.S. markets
  • Clayten:
    • Longterm: Create a better outcome for people, without any hippy jargon
    • Daycare to Elder care solution / Cradle to grave – people work internally to provide services
    • Use bulk buying to do this more communally.
    • Community for what you know you will need
  • Olusha:
    • How to get the duvet in the duvet cover easily?