Walked out to the beautiful point yesterday. Only one fisherman because the water was wild. Wonderful, for me. So I dived in a swam around the rock. Decided to go for a swim to the next pier which happens to be the coast-guards, about 1km along the coast. A good swim. A lot of wind, reasonable waves. When I returned, on my approach to the rock, a coastguard boat appeared and made a bee-line to me. They told me I had to leave the water, that someone had reported that I had gone missing. The fisherman had lost sight of me behind the rock and thought I had succumbed to the waves. So, no more exploring for me, and they were wanting to take me back to town, though I persuaded them to let me back into the water and for me to crawl out at the rocks where I said I could. Which I did, of course. There were two police and two paramedics on land. I apologised to them of course, for their unnecessary call-out. All this, and the water wasn't half as violent as I have been in before. Tricky spot, admittedly. Didn't take my camera, stupidly. Some of the waves were leaping 12m into the air when they hit the rock. Hopefully another day like it will come. Lovely.
Today, decided to swim to the next village, canical. I can't get a map up on my ipad that has a distance scale on it, not google maps, not apple. Terribly tedious. I counted my strokes, which gives a reasonable indicator of the distance. 3,000 strokes, equivalent to 3km. The trainer of the young triathlete, Bruno, said the competition swim from there was 3.2km. I sat for a bit on the pier, then swam back. About 6km. I thought I would be quite tired, or achey coming back, but nope, it was fine. I think it is like jogging. Once you get a rhythm you can run for hundreds of km.
My aim, though impossible to do alone, is to swim 42km. I will need a boat or at least a dude in a kayak to supply me with food on the way. About 15 hours swim, I've estimated. Here to Funchal. Will the opportunity arise before I leave, in three weeks?
Another post on the Next Edge group on FaceBook complaining about how difficult it is to keep track of the discussions. So there was a call to transpose it to a wiki, or some such. Again. Typical. A bunch of switched on people with a stream of engagement, and they want to slow it down, tabulate it, kill it. So, as usual, I suggested that we should make use of the speed. Why not challenge ourselves to write a book together, along the lines of a non-linear book, with contributions being only a few paragraphs long, all within the week. It would be like a snapshot of the stream, and it serves the purpose of producing a social product.
And then I realise I was doing what I usually do. Suggest something, and then wait to see if anyone wants to lead on it. So, I broke the pattern, and set up a project page on the next edge wiki, that nobody is using because it would be another repository for stuff said. 5 hours after posting up an invitation to contribute, and there are no responses. No comments, no likes, nothing. Beats me. I would have thought that bods who wanted to action the group, do something more than words, could see this as an initial stepping stone. If we can write a book together, then we might action something else in the real world. But so far, the usual response, complete dismissal.
Why can't adults realise that we actually have to do something together, and not as a bunch of like-minded people who happen to share a hobby, or as an organised group in a company or government branch. Bunches of friends get the idea. Happens all the time. And here we are, a collective of next edge thinkers, experts in the field of facilitation, and nope, they just can't do anything together. Well, they do, but I think only in terms of engagement with traditional hierarchies in the role of advisors (as per previous post). They are between corporate and friends, and they seem to be happy chatting. Well, some at least. And those who want action make a few bleating noises, and then concern themselves elsewhere.
So, it looks like the Next Edgers have not quite gone far enough, and their edge is still within the remit of chat, and within the system as it is. It was close though. I really thought they were beyond the edge, and were into experimentation, conversation through action, collective strategy and those things that I started verbalising two years ago, and initiated with my magnus opus in 2003 with the whole-system, socially-orientated, reality-experience, 2020worldpeace. Ho hum. Maybe in a couple of years. Or maybe there is a collective doing this already? Several probably. And one of them will hit on the right way for it to scale, for example following the energy and drive of those who join (that's right, at the edge :), because we will only need one of these open collective networks (cf ipool in Dunno, or tuttle=twitter in small book BIG THINK).
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