World Storm Rider

There is nothing better than having to struggle and make your own way. - Jim Rogers - Street Smarts: Adventures on the Road & In The Market

We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds. - Aristotle Onassis [Shipping magnate of the 20th Century]

Surfers because they are exposed to the wild, have something that most of society has lost. Most of society is completely cut off from the wild, completely cut off from the natural world. They live in climate controlled automobiles or offices or houses or whatever they are. In this day and age where you have such fractured societies – who is there more prepared and more globalized and more integrated into the natural world and the global community than surfers? - Drew Kampion

All great Investors > Speculators are in line with Big Wave Surfers > Embrace Volatility.

Must have saved capital to enter this game. Humility to produce more than consumption.

Ethical Value > Solutions > Relationship Business > Hand Shake Agreements

Reason the collective pushes toxic food, centralization and daily fragile concepts.

Agenda 21 / 31 > Disconnect from Land > Cities > Independent people know soil…

Joel Salatin…

Ups & Downs. Daily gratitude needs to be addressed when experiencing challenges > Set Backs can provide the ultimate lesson.

Wiring funds to obtain services to an individual in Uruguay has not worked out well. This will be the last of our trusting anyone from the beach region there until a boots on the ground relationship is established.

The Grifters tend to come from La Barra seeking commission / tactical thinking careers with little skin-in-the-game.

Mentor Rick Rule on Providing Value / Ethics / NAR / Risks [legal theft vs traditional force].

Occam’s Razor: New Goal to be on the ground & communicate & construct.

Philosophy of Volition - Service - A continued note of producers vs Coercion by Indebted Opportunists remains clear in the brave new screen watcher world.

Important Skills moving forward > The Gift of Gratitude 

Leleo Kinimaka Paddle Received this week… Art, Heritage & Respect.

Elimination of Risk is a Pipe Dream > > Sound Strategies include Mitigation of Risk

The absence of skin in the game comes with undesirable epistemological consequences. Because people who are isolated from the impacts of their decisions do not learn. They remain captive to their erroneous ideas about how the world works. As a result our systems ‘rot’, i.e. they become ever more fragile. - Skin in the Game: The Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist. 
Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable. - R. Buckminster Fuller
The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. - Aristotle
- R. Buckminster Fuller