Organizational Development

Breakthrough, Where Are You?

People, we’re going through some major organizational development at Factor e Farm. We’re struggling with an approach and method for delivering the open source village. The Factor e Live Distillations are complete – though I will publish...

Need for an OSE Social Networking Site

Our goal is to build the world’s first replicable self sufficient post-industrial global village. In support of that goal, we need people that can integrate research and design and build the necessary technology while collaborating with other people...

The Brick that Broke the Camel’s Back

I have a lot to say about where I am, about what I’m doing, about what I’m feeling and about bricks. And no pictures to say it with. So, please be persistent and listen to what I have to say and perhaps we’ll all be the wiser for it....

OSE Open Engineering Cycle

As we have recently begun parallel development of several open source Global Village Construction Set technologies (CEB, Solar Turbine, LifeTrac, Sawmill, CNC XYZ table), it is useful to formalize the OSE product development process. It is called the...

Just Tools for Life Revisited

Time is a marvelous means for putting things into perspective. Your most embarrassing moment as a seven-year-old becomes the funniest story of the evening twenty years later. And likewise, those hilarious jokes at two in the morning, produce puzzled looks...