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A "One Man Airship Show" It is interesting that with less than one day per week of average unpaid dedication to the UPship project since October of 2022, and a few hundred dollars invested, we have a well-advanced design for a very innovative yet practical airship. This is based on my 35 years of contemplation of the good, the bad, and even the ugly. I do have capable team members ready to go to work, but up to now it has been 98% my job. I actually like having an engineering team meeting with myself at any time day or night and quickly resolving some potential problem or need. Recent advances have been simplified helium valves, an improved gasbag locator system, and simplified girders (based mostly on Zeppelin experience - why reinvent the wheel?) Our Business Plan is basically finished and looks good, all 50 pages. We can build the world's most advanced airship in REAL terms for well under $1 million, including the hangar. I am sure it is VERY different than whatever plan the big projects are presenting with hopes to get tens or hundreds of millions to build questionable designs that fly well on computers.

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Had an interesting observation today… I am flying from Lafayette and just went through TSA. They were awesome! Everyone was kind and patient while still focused on their job. Contrast that with Atlanta….. I started thinking it was about having the right people and having the right systems, and leaders, etc etc etc. But then I remembered a story from some recent training. There were two expeditions to reach the South Pole first. One made it and lived and the other made it later and died. This was studied as part of #GoodtoGreat by #JimCollins. What struck me most in the comparison was the one who lived and arrived first had a methodical approach based on achieving a certain mileage target per day. Even if they could have gone further in any given day they didn’t, knowing they would need this energy on a harder day. Contrast that with the other team who just went as hard as possible at all times. Jim’s concept for this is known as a twenty mile march. The power is in the doing of it consistently, not in any one large breakthrough… I’d been thinking a lot about this and how to incorporate it into my life, which has been a challenge. I think I’ve been more conditioned to keep pushing as hard as possible at all times, which is ultimately limiting… Back to TSA Maybe part of the reason they were so good here in Lafayette is they just aren’t as stressed out with so many passengers. Their twenty mile march is reasonable and they relax more often. And that’s ok… As someone really working through this for myself and my business, I would love to hear about anyone else who’s observed / experienced similar challenges. And what I mean by that is how to avoid pushing harder (yourself, your team, etc) once the days work has been done, even if it’s a little early that day… https://lnkd.in/gNAyWPP2.

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