Practice Apocalypse
Why? Well, because that Monday, a colleague had explained the premise of the survival show "Alone" and it sounded like a blast. But also, because I'd wanted to "live my beliefs." It's really hard to feel the end of the world, despite my head predicting a 50%+ chance of an internet-down++ level catastrophe in the next year. Of course I can't contemplate the grid going down, because my life looks so normal. And so, from 8pm on Friday to midday Sunday, the "grid was down." Our gamemaster Nat gave us three hours of warning. We "didn't know how long it would last", so set ourselves the goal of surviving for 2 months. And, because I don't run a neolab, we had a $1000 budget. Friday The 3 hours of preparation time was stressful. After an hour of frantic planning (whose chaos would've made an informative MBA case study), we split off to rent a car and buy 300,000 calories of food from Costco. Claude gave us detailed instructions. At Costco, I got a small flavor of my grandmother's childhood (s