ProxMonitor: David Loughry

This ProxMonitor is part of our Proxri Deal and IP Deal. It is David Loughry's personal ProxMonitor. Since David is the main developer at this point, you will see some overlap with the ProxMonitor for the site.

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Sustainability

Sustainability Status: Red
Major Factor: Financial Status

Sustainability status seems to be a good way to summarize this ProxMonitor, which is related to the proximity of our Proxri Deal, since I'm the only developer right now. Sustainability results from a number of diverse factors, which I detail in the ProxGrowth section below.

The major factors driving the red (critical and urgent) rating are my Financial Status and my Emotional state. Please honor our Proxri Deal and proxri here to improve sustainability.

Updated Sept. 1, 2010

Sections

• Snapshot
• Priorities
• ProxGrowth
• Financial
• Current Approach to Life
• Desired Variety
• On Painting
• My Evolving Role in ProxThink
• Needs and Wishes

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Snapshot

I'm both frustrated and excited these days. I've worked on this ProxThink project in one way or another for over thirty years. I've financed it and have quite a bit of startup debt. Yet at the same time, it is launched and ready for visitors. Plus, I'm starting to give seminars and work with people using ProxThink.

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Priorities

1. Letting people know about the ProxThink site, and working with folks via seminars, speaking, consulting and collaboration.
2. Paying off startup debt.
3. Finding people to collaborate with on a related project, artdown.com, which uses the ProxThink growth model.

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ProxGrowth

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My perceived current state of ProxGrowth in several different proximities follows. This involves efforts to live in ProxPatterns-related ways.

• • Emotional: Frustrated, stressed
• Profoundly frustrated. Overextended in almost every direction. Mentally and emotionally exhausted. Very stressed.
• • Variety: Creating More Time for Painting
• As you may notice, I thrive on a fair amount of variety. The launch of this ProxThink project has reduced time for art. However, I've designed the project to allow more time for painting as it grows.
• • Intellectual: Looking for Many-Dimensionality
• I have excellent intellectual stimulation. I'm looking for more interaction with thinkers, both specialists and many-dimensional thinkers.
• • Financial: ProxRewards Needed
• Due to the development of this ProxThink project, my financial situation is challenging. I need more money ProxRewards to meet my goals and reduce start-up debt.
• • Professional: Building Wider Network
• I have good prospects and have laid groundwork for professional growth in both ProxThink-related projects and art projects. I'm looking to build a wider network of associates through which to accomplish more complex and diverse projects.
• • Artistic: Developing Some New Ways
• I live in a visually, culturally and artistically stimulating place. I want more interaction with artists, a gallery, and people to help with photography and my website. I'm developing some new ways to relate to art via the web.

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Financial

* Current minimum monthly operating expense, plus some debt repayment
** Amount needed to partially compensate for the thirty-plus year investment David Loughry made to create ProxThink.

Notes
This project is entirely funded by me, David Loughry, at this point. The debt figure above is the result of creating this set of ideas and website. My total investment over the years is much more. I've got basically no credit left to tap. Please see this site ProxMonitor link for more details about Money Needed and what we're asking you to do.

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Current Approach to Life

My current approach to life focuses on creating situations with a variety of potential relationships. I prefer a great deal of variety and stimulation, especially in the areas of ideas, innovation, global affairs, art, music and people. I want the ProxThink project to become more collaborative, both for the variety, and also because it has become bigger than I can or want to manage. I want to move more towards my desired variety (see below).

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Desired Variety

• ProxThink-related activities - 30 to 40% of my time
• Painting and art (loughry.com) - 30 to 40% of my time
• New ventures and projects - 20 to 40% of my time

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On Painting

Painting and the art world are a big part of who I am. I've slowly learned I must do some ProxThink in order to do some art, and vice versa. Painting and ProxThink complement each other. In fact, painting and drawing played a role in the development of ProxThink, as a testing place for ideas and relationships. One of my challenges is to help the two of them get along, in a ProxPatterns-related way. So it is important to me that the growth of ProxThink and related ProxThink Projects not overtake painting and art. You can see some of my work at loughry.com.

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My Evolving Role in ProxThink

I've developed some ideas concerning what I would like my role to involve in the evolving arc of what this site and project could become, which you can find here.

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Needs and Wishes

People Needed
This list of people is a dream list, which would help me focus on what I do best, which is thinking, writing, learning, collaborating and painting. Perhaps as my ProxThink and art projects grow, opportunities will present themselves in which I can create Vadi Agreements with people for some of these sorts of relationships.
• Finances: A pool of people, or one person, who can help refinance and/or pay off some of my startup debt.
• General Business: People to help with my mail, accounting, taxes, finances, public relations, and general office activities.
• Art Related: People to photograph my work and color correct the files; build and launch a new art site I have a concept for which involves a different distribution method; sell my work through galleries; produce, distribute and market items with my work on them; find and negotiate licensing opportunities for my work.
• ProxThink Related: See the People Needed section of the ProxMonitor for the site. More specifically, I also need people to help with projects you can see at Site Possiblities and Other Projects.

Resources Needed
• Enough ProxRewards and/or ad revenue to pay off ProxThink startup debt (see above)
• New MacBook Pro 15-inch with AppleCare
• Toyota Prius (I drive a 1987 Saab with high miles. Sometimes I wonder about my safety.)
• Cinema Display (Apple, 23")

Situations Needed
• I need a new place to live. My current loft is too noisy and has no views. I would like a work/live loft (or other situation) with space for painting and computer work, lots of natural light, views to the street and distance, and which is very quiet (no pumps, fans, blowers, music and very little street noise). Perhaps someone who believes in this ProxThink project might proxri me a new place to live. I want to travel quite a bit, so it may function sometimes as a base.

Wish List
• Expenses for a year to keep growing and developing ProxThink
• Support from some foundations
• MacArthur Foundation grant or other grants
• Invitation to join the Global Business Network
• Endowment for ongoing partial or full support
• Travel internationally three to four times a year
• Meet some people from my inspiring lives list (view once you join).
• Places to live and work for short periods in Los Angeles, New York, London, Paris, Rome and San Francisco
• Live part-time in remote areas, part-time in cities

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Proxri Deal:
As you find
our relationship
rewarding,
proxri
with the
proximity
in mind.

Sept. $0 of $2K
Debt Large
Sept. 1, 2010

Suggested
Minimum Proxri

Proxri Deal: As you find our relationship rewarding, proxri with the proximity in mind.

Sept. $0 of $2K • Debt Large • Sept. 1, 2010