Breathing life into good ideas

I recently finished reading Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. Pirsig spends much of the book circling around the idea of quality: what it is, where it comes from, and why we can recognize it so easily while struggling to define it.

Can you buy seven units of quality? What about seven minutes of it? Quality does not have a measurable unit.

The best things in life are rarely expensive in the usual way. They come from some mix of attention, taste, timing, friends, commitment, and naive ambition. While money cant buy quality, its an accelerant and can put a booster on a good idea.

I want to set aside up to $1,000 a month to make some of those ideas real. Big ideas, small ideas, and especially ideas that sound slightly ridiculous with the only requirement of doing them with people I care about.

Friends, put away your checkbooks. I am putting up the money, all you need to bring is asses in seats.

$1,000 is a very human amount of money. You can look at it and immediately understand the scale of things it unlocks. It is enough to rent a room, buy some strange equipment, or take a joke several steps further than any reasonable person would. It is also small enough that the idea can stay personal.

Rent out a theater and play Mario Party on the big screen. Sponsor something niche. Rent studio time and make a song. Host a night where friends give presentations on whatever they have been thinking about.

Interested to see where this idea goes.