KevinSailing the Ship Infinito.Nexus
I’m glad to welcome new and fresh crew on board which helps me to sail the ship named Infinito.Nexus into calm waters. The last 16 month since I started focussing on this project had been really challenging. A few month I needed to sail the boat one handed to the next port to get new people joining.
Already when I started focussing on this project at the beginning of 2025 I assumed that it would be an adventure to develop a software solutions which makes people, enterprises and institutions independent from American big-tech companies and offer an Open Source alternative.
The most of last year I compared with the situation when I crossed on a sailing vessel the strait of Gibraltar in the mid of the night in heavy fock, without proper navigation equipment on board. One engine was broken and our Genoa sail as well. Besides this, (sorry for the details) the vacuum toilette exploded in the night before. The crew was already exhausted by sailing from Corfu in direction Hamburg.
Nightwatch before reaching Vilamoura 2023-07-21It was a pain in the ass to get the business running, to try to get investors in, and get the software on a level which fulfils my personal requirements concerning code quality and security. But finally it seems like I have enough crew on board to reach our port of refuge Vilamoura, to repair the vessel and to get it ready for the next leg.
As a sailor you try to be prepared for everything and you have a vision of your destination. The destination is always different in reality, then what you expected it to be from studying maps, literatur and documentations. Sails breaking, crews having conflicts, toilettes failing, engines breaking, people getting injured and also your mood changes. Sailing is always an adventure, also if you just sail in a small yawl on Wannsee.
Rock of Gibraltar 2023-07-18What you have to accept as a sailor is that there is destiny. You don’t know when destiny starts, but it’s definitely there. Destiny is the thing which is out of your control. You can try to fight against als the circumstances and still fail, or you can decide to resign instantly. There is no right solution.
I think that there is another important thing to consider; The German word for experience is “Erfahrung”. “Fahren” means to drive. “Zur See fahren” means to navigate a vessel on the sea.
Would you trust somebody who “just” studied and doesn’t have any practical experience in sailing a vessel on the sea? Who doesn’t have any “Erfahrung”. Specially if this person is telling you how dangerous this adventure is?
We’re living in a world of consultants and people with business economics degrees which just reproduce the information which they got thought in school and university. I don’t want to over-simplify it, but a lot of them seem like they just reproduce the theories which they got tough in school without critical reflection or any creative approach.
If we as a society and economy continue the path of listening to this kind kind of consultants we will never set sail and never reach a beautiful island. We will never experience the beauty of the flower island Madeira, we will never swim with dolphins in the Mediterranean, we will never eat fresh lobster on the Tobacco Island. We will never experience the dunes of Hiddensee. We will not experience volcanoes exploding at Stromboli or wales diving under us. We will never feel beaufort 9 crossing from Gran Canaria to El Hierro or swim with sharks on Isla Fernando de Noronha.
Dolphin in the Mediterranean 2023-07-09Life is risky. The only thing which is sure is that we will die at a point. From my philosophical point life doesn’t have a purpose. This makes me free.
I as a “free human” decided to set sail to setup a company which will challenge American Big Tech and make Europe independent again.If I reach this island it’s another question. But I’m pretty confident that we will not end like Odysseus. Also Poseidon is a good buddy (gave him a lot of rum) and he will send us good winds soon. I assume the doldrums are behind us.
With a fresh crew it seems much more realistic to reach the paradies and as soon as we reach it I will I set sails in the real world again and leave the high pressure areas of the digital world.
Thanks to all crew which had been a part of the adventure in the last year and welcome to all new crew on the yacht named Infinito.Nexus.
If you want to learn more about our adventure and our vision check out:
- https://blog.infinito.nexus/
- https://microblog.infinito.nexus/@kevinveenbirkenbach
- https://github.com/infinito-nexus/
- https://s.infinito.nexus/linkedin
More about sailing in the real world here.
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Kevin Veen-Birkenbach
Kevin Veen-Birkenbach
