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+# Stock Cropper Stream-of-Consciousness
+
+## Should I partner with Zach?
+## Is Zach the right person to partner with?
+## What is the vision, in terms of:
+### Finances, stake, shares, etc.?
+### Geography
+### Timeline / time-to-market
+
+
+## Is this even the right path to go down?
+
+# What are the facts?
+
+- Went to ACRES Field day
+- Met with the Stock Cropper guy
+- He's been in a bind, his manufacturing partner backed out, so he's looking for engineering support. He's not an engineer.
+- I've seen his idea and it really does look interesting, it allows for pasturing at a small scale and leveraging edge-effect on corn
+- But his engineering partner has taken him for a ride, frankly.
+- He and I talked and we see the same sort of thing: need to scale back the tech, lean it up
+- We aren't eye-to-eye on how much of a "finished polished bulletproof product" that needs to be offerred but there is room to align this
+- I think he gives a steadier hand and brings some branding/sales/networking to the table that I would desperately need
+- I bring the ability to technically drive the product to be what it needs to be
+- Still need to find manufacturing partners, but it's going to be leaner if the design is at least under the same roof
+- We will be calling and revisting sometime Friday.
+- Jason Mauck, host of the field day, wanted to call and catch up with something. I don't know what this is in regards to exactly, but he might be trying to get a company going to build equipment for his relay cropping.
+
+In parallel
+- On Saturday and Sunday I woke up with this nagging thought that the engineering is getting in the way of me farming.
+- Monday that wasn't there, I was just up and got going
+- Tuesday I awoke with a weird thought that I actually can't recall. It was something to do with perfectionism or something.
+
+- Sunday, talked with Jonathan about it. Got some good things to think about as to what questions I should be asking.
+- I also mentioned the sensation on Sat/Sun.
+- Independently he brought up religious life. Mentioned that I have thought about it. And I was going to visit a few monasteries this summer in KS/OK. Mentioned my reservations - mostly that there's just this disconnect from work.
+
+# So what am I pondering?
+
+0. What path do I need to take?
+
+To answer this -
+1. Where do I focus my energies and limited time?
+2. What questions do I need to be asking?
+3. What am I not seeing?
+
+# Questions to ask Zach
+- Financial
+	- Is there buy-in?
+	- Is there room to be paid?
+	- Have you worked out price points?
+	- Right now all you have is a waitlist... no deposits or any actual $$$ ?
+- Timeline
+	- Is this full time?
+	- Do I need to move?
+- Ethos
+	- FOSH?
+	- Are you Christian? What is your core north star?
+	- How are you vetting investors, how much say do they have?
+- Skillset / bring to the table?
+	- It sounds like you have sales experience...
+
+# Jordan
+"It has very little to do with my abilities or what I accomplish... it has more to do with will and grace"
+"The acts that I assent to are actually God's acts..."
+