Members Monday Weekly Update October 15th 2018

Stairs with long steps.

You know how it feels when you are trying hard to make progress but it feels like you are just standing still? 

That’s my feeling today. The Machine is not standing still but my frustration is steadily increasing. The more stuff I finish, the more I discover is yet to be done.

Often when you are working towards a goal, lets say you want to learn to play the guitar, you can practice and practice without feeling the results. But progress is not continuous. Often progress has a ketchup effect, you are trying and trying without noticeable progress but then all of a sudden your guitar playing takes a big leap and you master Smells Like Teen Spirit like nothing. I see non-linear progress curve as a stair with very long steps. You are climbing this stair of progress, but you are not moving up to the next step every day, instead you are moving forward on the same step. And to be able to climb to the next level you have to spend some considerable amount of time moving forward on that same step. It feels like standing still but it is not. Building the marble machine x is the longest progress stair I have ever tried to climb. 

Testing the rhythm machine this week. It was designed in February. Realising that hurts. Its a slight feeling of panic knowing how slow I'm moving forward on the same long step.

There is so much positives happening as well, but right now, when I am writing this, the realisation of the slow progress speed and the length of the steps on the stair is dominating my thoughts. We had 250 replies on the application from last week.

Two - hundred - and - fifty replies.

Every single one of them were from very serious, high level competent persons. Incredible! My task after Chris has singled out the new larger team will be to make use of this goodwill and hopefully ramp up everything. 

So, for this week I want to remind myself that even if it feels like we are standing still, we are moving forward on the same step, and as long we keep on moving we will get there one day. Frodo did!

Good luck with everything you do, thank you so much for being Sam and for supporting the Marble Machine X Project!

All best/ Martin