So, getting back on track. What’d I do this week ?
Perhaps the most relevant for my relationship to Young Hands Club is I clarified what it means to me, which I see as pledge to Diana Coman and the code, which is ultimately about improving and working effectively with people. I’ve been struggling to find the words for why I’ve not used it these past months and why I’ve gone through all those false starts, but have not yet found them. The bottom line is I’ve allowed myself to be more passive. Nevertheless, I have made improvements behind the scenes and think we’re setting ourselves up for some big wins with JWRD.
I think re-committing to YHC will help me be more resourceful and improve my odds of success. While I’m not sure it’s measurable how much it’s already helped, I know it’s substantial. I’m sorry for my recent conduct, which I know isn’t enough to just say.
As for the wider scope, the weekend of the 30th, my best local friend visited from Boston. We made a golf outing with 10 other friends Saturday and played 9 holes Sunday afternoon. Around that time I decided to join the city club for a range of reasons : a) with Panama still under very severe curfew and a closed international border, it’s becoming less likely I’ll be returning this summer; b) there are many old, high quality connections I have there to re-establish with members of the club ((e.g. I’m playing half a loop Thursday evening with a childhood friend who works in structured finance for Goldman Sachs and is working from here this summer rather than Manhattan.)); c) the membership is good value, it’ll be good exercise and will put me back in touch with my 21 year old self who hustled around a club for a summer and put himself in a position to take advantage of game changing opportunities he’d otherwise not have been.
My paternal Grandmother turned 98 Tuesday the 2nd, so there were a few days of celebration at the beginning of the week.
On Tuesday I finished integrating Jacob’s review of the contract for the deal we’re negotiating with a small business interested in investing in owning their IT infrastructure. The first stage of the deal is a paid research report customized to their business requirements that will include recommendations and quotes for JWRD providing them long term IT support.
Otherwise on JWRD sales front I spoke with about twenty people — primarily in person ((Handshakes are rarely being turned down lately in my experience.)), some over the phone — who are mixtures of prospects and referral sources. No deals were closed.
Further work included an article documenting press, install and usage of Gales Bitcoin Wallet on Gales Linux.
By the end of the week I was expecting to have that article out over the weekend, but Friday one of the local patriarchs here died unexpectedly. He was a pillar of the local basketball community and I know his oldest son ((he had 3 children that’ve grown to between 26 and 19yo)) and his friends very well — some since infancy and when I was in high school I was counselor at basketball camp they all went to. I never played for the man nor was he a family friend, so the relationship wasn’t extremely close, but we still knew each other well enough and were always friendly. I stopped by the house Friday at sunset and didn’t leave until about 4am Saturday. After getting some sleep, I wrote the family a letter between 10am and noon Saturday, then had 18 holes of golf scheduled to play, which I did, then went back to the house be with everyone again last night. I’ve learned more about how positive he was posthumously so still processing the whole situation.
As to the status of the GBW article, I expect to publish that by Tuesday at the latest.