[C7G] Jackson’s Quest

Posted on March 31, 2014

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This will be Jackson’s final question for the shareholders and while seemingly a modest question it may well lay the seeds for Jackson’s future growth. We’ll let Jackson Gariety explain this one on his own:

At this point in my life I’m trying to figure out what slice of the world will give me the most meaning, or, "Raison d'être.” A large part of that is the country I choose to live in. For the moment I imagine the most ideal place is an urban area with beautiful nature nearby, a place with a strong academic influence from one or many colleges that focus on both art and technology. Ideally, the place is one where people have struggled through economic and political revolution recently, as that has a serious impact on the depth of culture and its openness to idealism. I’d like to live in a place where young people are freely expressing themselves, and the culture has a sense of its own uniqueness. Portland embodies many of these aspects, but it has no major college, and too many highways for easy access to natural beauty. I imagine this ideal place is outside of the United States. My goals for traveling are to find a culture I can return to over the course of my life and where I can grow a network of creative and technologist peers.

This proposal is for Jackson to go off and leave Portland for no less than a month’s time to live and work in a new place.

If this proposal passes Jackson will spend a month in the setting that receives the most votes in the subsequent six proposals (San Francisco, CA, New York, NY, Reykjavik, Iceland, Berlin, Germany, Paris, France, London, England).