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--- title: Framing — "Team Humanity" type: framing visibility: public first-used: 2024-03-XX audience: all sources: - raw/slack-explainingideaflow-2022-2026.md#2024-03 related: - wiki/framings/neocortex-for-the-global-brain.md - wiki/layers/collective-cognition.md - wiki/framings/open-source-knowledge-graphs.md --- # "Team Humanity" ## The line Jacob, March 2024 (user story format): > "We are just building an übertool/dashboard/collaboration platform to house, track, and support all the thinking that happens online in really large, multi-tiered organizations like Alphabet or Verizon … One such organization happens to be the entire planet earth's, ie **Team Humanity**. Which, whether we are conscious of it, or not, is a team/corporation. But right now, since we don't think of it as such, and we don't use IdeaFlow tools, it's not a very efficiently run organization. But if we have this tool, team humanity can move more efficiently towards its OKRs. Like getting everyone's needs met, and working together to discover/cluster everyone's needs." ## Why it works 1. **Generalizes the wedge.** Enterprise is already IdeaFlow's wedge. Team Humanity is the extreme version of the wedge — same product shape, bigger org. 2. **Defamiliarizes by analogy.** Thinking of humanity as a single, badly-run company is productive. OKRs, coordination, meetings, knowledge transfer — all the same failure modes, all the same fixes. 3. **Actionable.** "How do we make team humanity more efficient?" has a first move: make its collective thinking legible. ## Why it's risky - Literal reading is technocratic / dehumanizing. - Humanity isn't *actually* a corporation; analogies have tails. - Mitigation: keep it adjacent to [[../layers/collective-cognition]] where the moral framing (Vision for the World, NVC, sparks of motivation) provides the ballast. ## Where it sits - **Layer:** collective cognition, framed organizationally. - **Audience:** all. Especially good for operators / systems-thinkers. - **Register:** playful but serious. ## What it pairs with - [[neocortex-for-the-global-brain]] — the anatomical metaphor for the same object. - [[open-source-knowledge-graphs]] — the governance stance. - [[god-data-structure]] — the data-model side. ## The pairing that makes it tolerable Team Humanity by itself reads technocratic. Paired with [vision-convo's Vision for the World](https://wikihub.md/@jacobcole/vision-convo/wiki/themes/vision-for-the-world) — which grounds the scale in the schooling-fish vs cat-dog frame and the sparks-of-motivation unit — it becomes humanistic: Team Humanity is the right metaphor *because* humans are already trying to act as one body; IdeaFlow just makes the trying legible. ## Related - [[../layers/collective-cognition]] - [[../framings/neocortex-for-the-global-brain]] - [Vision for the World (vision-convo)](https://wikihub.md/@jacobcole/vision-convo/wiki/themes/vision-for-the-world) - [Collective Intelligence (vision-convo)](https://wikihub.md/@jacobcole/vision-convo/wiki/concepts/collective-intelligence)