'I try to make what I do and what I am passionate about as close together as possible. I believe that should be one of everyone's major goals in life. I think passion almost always manifests itself as a desire to change or improve something, whether it's the entrepreneur who wants to change an industry, the writer who wants to change public opinion, the artist who wants to change collective consciousness or the musician who just wants to change how people feel in the present moment.'
Max Marmer

Max Marmer from the US likes to make big ideas happen. He's obsessed with learning and conversing about frameworks that give insight into where humanity is headed and why humans do what they do. As both an entrepreneur and a big picture thinker Max tries to pinpoint the biggest problems and opportunities that he can affect. He tries to clearly understand both present circumstances and future scenarios worth inhabiting and then start shaping the future by approximating ideal outcomes through iterations of entrepreneurial projects.

He's currently involved in founding a very ambitious startup working to weave together converging trends in education, entrepreneurship and the future of work. The startup is called Force For the Future and is beginning by providing decentralized, local support networks for entrepreneurs. But the larger vision for the project is to evolve into a liaison for "Real World University", the best learning environment of all, where passion, learning and work are all fluid and intimately related. The world's major institutions in the corporate and educational sectors are failing to develop the talent of the next generation. And we need our institutions to prepare people to work effectively in the 21st century, and support people in finding the problems they are passionate about solving. And that is perhaps the world's biggest challenge and opportunity right now: getting a greater percentage of the world's population working on solving humanity's biggest problems. Max believes entrepreneurship is the most effective way attack these problems and that life approached in an entrepreneurial manner is one of the best ways to create a life of personal fulfillment and greater contribution.

Max is honored to have the opportunity to immerse himself in a creative environment with 29 other amazing people all trying to implement their visions for a better world. It looks to be an incredibly stimulating atmosphere where the seeds of big projects will be sewn and lasting friendships begun. He expects the Palomar5 Camp to be an incredibly stimulating experience that will help shape the nascent project described above through conversation, experimentation, iteration and implementation. He expects an overstimulated but happy brain, a warm heart and cold skin. He's ready for early mornings, late nights and sweet dreams.

But frankly, this will be a first experience for all involved (the organizers included) and we don't really know what to expect what will come out of this six week experience except the unexpected.