I am in the process of fleshing out this description, excerpted from the post GHDR Report 0505: Setting Sail!
Now that Purpose, Roles, and Ship’s Charter is roughly defined, I can now define what Mission is. In my universe, a Mission is a set of strategic goals for a ship, the stars toward which the Ship sails.
Missions are set for a period of time, after which they are assessed and a new mission may be applied. A ship can have multiple overlapping missions.
Missions are very similar in structure to Groundhog Day Resolutions, and it makes sense to me to repackage it for The Ship. I defined a long list of starting directives in Groundhog Day Resolutions 2026 Kickoff Part III: The Plan (see sidebar) but these are my current focii:
Release what I Blog, Design, and Code into the Universe.
Figure out how to support myself by selling/promoting my own stuff.
Those are two separate missions running simultaneously.
There is also a de-facto mission: See how The Ship works in a shakedown cruise to test operational effectiveness. After all, this is an entirely new class of vessel, and there’s a good chance that there are operational issues I have missed.
Put the Charter and the Ship through its paces and keep a good log of what works and what changed.
I am optimistic that The Ship won’t immediately capsize and sink before I get anything done, but that is a statistically significant risk given my track record with stuckness and marketing resistance. Eeep!