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Good Sunday morning,

This 4th week it has been the fastest and the most meaningful from my point of view.

We have experienced a lot of different phases, the chaos, the discordance and then again the agreement, the willingness of bundling something together to ace this last mile.

I had a period of emptiness during this week, an emotional downturn which sometimes made me without energies and motivation.
However once we reached the internal equilibrium of the team, once each one of us realized its own path that will contribute not only to fill up printed pages but also our minds and the minds of the people that will follow, I re-flourished and now more than ever I see Nova happening.

In term of the process: this week I realized that we can plan whatever we want but at the very end there is no plan that can handle the reality, especially in uncertain contexts such us the start-up one. I think that designing a process is a way for minimizing the risk and especially to find other possible strategy in case of urgency. We learnt that also from Impact Hub: whenever you have people involved in a process the more you plan the less effective will be. All this reasoning brought me to the conclusion that testing is the only way of knowing if something can work out. Per and Karin are testing how to plan, we are testing the plan it self. Everyone in this process is learning by doing, and this is a unique chance we all have.

After the Sunny Friday, which was very useful in term of information, I was looking for something interesting to test the next one, and while finding people to follow on twitter I ended up in Fuck Up Night. Basically they organize event where people talk about their failure (check online). What about doing something about this for the next Friday ? Test how the conversations will evolve would be interesting and useful.

In conclusion, this week brought a new breath and new ideas, it is important to keep sailing it and do not loose this momentum.

Enjoy the sunny Sunday
Andrea