Welcome to my "life planning document". This is in part a nod to the inspirational work of Charlie O'Donnell and the Path 101 folks, whose exercises in radical transparency are worth emulating. This document is slow in getting started, so if you see it in the early stages there's likely not much to see at all, besides a rough framework of thoughts/aspirations and rough categories/vectors of engagement. Over time I'll be adding to it a great deal -- both in content and rigor/structure.


If you have thoughts or feedback, please send them to me, I'd really appreciate it: josh [at] jones-dilworth [dot] com


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Josh Jones-Dilworth
Life planning document
Last update: 7/11/09

[Primary] Higher purpose: To leave the world a better place than I found it.
[Primary] Higher purpose: To leave my local (geographical) context a better place than I found it, no matter how long I am there, or for how long.

[Secondary] Higher purpose: To lead a rich and rewarding intellectual life.
[Secondary] Higher purpose: To lead a rich and rewarding emotional life.

**Secondary higher purposes both flow into and out of the primary higher purposes

 Theme: Change through technological innovation
Goal:
Goal:

Theme: Change through social impact
Goal:
Goal:

I've recently started Jones-Dilworth, a PR and marketing firm focused on bringing early-stage technologies to market. I'm really happy and proud, though the first 6-9 months are going to be very consuming. In the long term, however, the hope is that I'll have more control over my "20% time" and more control overall -- more autonomy and more choice when it comes to my time and my resources and how I choose to direct them.

Plus, I love what I do -- it made a lot of sense to build a company around my skills and passions, and I'm very fortunate in that business so far has been darn good.

Primary:
  • Jones-Dilworth, Inc.

Advisory:
  • Buzzstream
  • MakeMeSustainable
  • Startup District (starting to move beyond an advisory role)
  • SXSWi Accelerator
  • BountyStorms
  • VerdeCamp
  • Prefinry
  • Gelato
  • Infochimps
  • Some of these are converting into clients. . .

Work-related projects:

Formalized ventures:
Professional development (extra-curriculars):

The "Josh Dilworth Advisory Board":