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“The Codex” / Humanity Basic Infrastructure Project

Codex of human know-how as a public resource to humanity. Imagine it were everyone’s birthright to have access to the wealth that is the sum-total of human know-how!

Includes “How to survive as a highly sensitive person on a low budget”. Also includes “Guide to Reconstructing Society” and “Surviving/Thriving if We Had to Build/Rebuild From Scratch”. And the “know-how”/craftsmanship that is all software (shouldn’t all software from 10 years ago be free by now?)

The Codex is a hub of knowledge resources + hacked-together open source software infrastructure to coordinate human activity – with the goal of bringing human flourishing into every person’s reach. We’re building the more general, not-just-engineering equivalent of the open source movement. We envision this as something the majority of the developed world eventually becomes a part of to a lesser or greater degree – it will be like: “If you're not part of this cool community improving the world together, what are you doing with your life?”  For the services side of this “Volunteerism Movement” – i.e. things you could do right now that would help people – see favorverse!  Also, yourself and your interests on people.worldquestguild.connectordocs.com

Comments on “The Codex”:

Know-how guide for basic survival (and also thriving) in life <> consciousness owners manual ~Cody. See also: Healing Resources "Cody Codex"

Survival guide for sensitive people on a budget

“Knowledge as a birthright” – as surely as a body and your instincts

<> Tools to make people more independent

“Building tools for the well intended.”

See also:

FixingTheInternet.jacobcole.net • favorverse

People.worldquestguild.connectordocs.com • WorldQuestGuild.connectordocs.com

VolunteerForce.jacobcole.net • systematicawesome • globalideabank

supplements • products • lifehacks.jacobcole.net

Inbox #toProcess

Attitudes to adopt #attitude

  • #attitude #culture supplement culture vs just meal culture - “have a tonic” – watch effect in immediate or short term way, not just taste sensation?
  • #attitude add 5 min meditation around food, supplements, homeopathic medicine, and Bill Gray homeopathic frequency

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  • It’s part of meditation, not the other way

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foodslist

Retreat List for Dharma Retreats at Aum's

Spiritual technologies.

Supplements Stacks supplements

Startup tools ​​http://toolstacks.jacobcole.net/

How to eat well http://foodslist.jacobcole.net/

Farming / foraging – what foods are poisonous. Wyatt robot farming infra. Permagardening

This is how the human body works

How would rebuild society given nothing <> Mek Wiki

Coronavisu Tech Handbook - https://coronavirustechhandbook.com

Feynman quote on physics -> atoms ; sam harris on meditation “you are not your next thought”

How to Life #SurvivalGuide – How to Survive/Thrive as a Highly Sensitive Person on a Budget #WIP

Draft 1 #WIP

Scratch #WIP

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  • Per Jacob

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  • Steaming vegetables e.g. kale, collards, cauliflower #todo
  • Celebrate accomplishments to build energy – “dinner has been accomplished”! 108 repetitions of mantra or 27 repetition qigong exercise have been accomplished  #buildsEnergy #happiness #selfefficacy #lifehack

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  • For Retreats (e.g. meditation retreats)

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  • #todo Oyen List

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  • Roger
  • #todo Lisa
  • #todo Oyen
  • #todo Cody

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  • Supplements

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#todo make higher budget version of this list

Basic Infrastructure that Needs to Be Built – By Type

  • opensource.jacobcole.net A dashboard for the open source movement.
  • openlists.jacobcole.net A dashboard for the open lists movement.
  • #todo projects that don’t make sense as “pure open source,” e.g. incl. Services
  • List all foods that grow natively in an area and are edible
  • Forum software that is transparent and consensual and open-source

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Basic Infrastructure that Needs to Be Built – By Category

Add to this list!

  • Open Reputation System
  • Human Collective Action Tools

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  • ThunderVeg
  • ThunderVote
  • ThunderBoycott “Kickstopper”

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  • should include ability to donate to help implement specific suggestions
  • #ideaflow

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  • Infrastructure to support everyone being a philanthropist

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  • (e.g. if community wants to pitch in to support missing gov. functions, like helping people with low income to buy health insurance. Or to help a local kid get a laptop for school.)

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  • Platform for people to share resources they can share (e.g. tools, uhaul truck)

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  • Tools for personal leverage

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  • “Camel’s Eye” Software from Permutation City #Book . Agent that filters emails on your behalf
  • Great open macro and browser automation tools

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  • Browserflow

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  • “Shopping coach” service that works on your behalf

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  • Basic Open Meditation / Working with Your Body Curricula

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  • Free Versions of Paid Support Resources

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  • Open Templates for all kinds of work, invoices, gantt charts, etc

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  • Starting Point: Templates.jacobcole.net

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  • Online Role Model-Casting project so people without good role models can emulate

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  • Foods Lists

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  • Open Medical Knowledge

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  • Open Academic Education

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  • Open University-level math education

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  • Support resources

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  • Interactive Programming Self Teaching Resources

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  • ? Open Classics
  • Open Philosophy Curriculum?

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  • Games for Learning Particular Skills

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  • “Literature ‘immunizes’ us against tropes we may encounter in society”

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  • hpmor.org/ (lesswrong.com/ good for people who grew up in intense religious contexts)
  • Harry Potter had profound effect on housemate who grew up with troubled family
  • Wheel of Time books as intro to mental control/portable happiness

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  • List of Positive Online Intellectual Communities You Can Get Lost In

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  • Assistive Technology – lots of low hanging fruit. Ping jacob@ideaflow.io

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  • Good hands free voice recognition email interfaces
  • Cueing app for people with brain injuries
  • Better foot mouse

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  • Local Guides to Places

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  • Societal/Governmental Changes

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  • Compassionate escalation paths for people having mental health issues,

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  • Ubiquitous "foster care" for adults having challenges. Everyone should have “extra” parents who can even go so far as to do things like help their "children" to cover their health insurance if they can't afford it. #culture #societalChange

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  • Button to request non-emergency help

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  • E.g.   compassionate responder for mental health crises, care coordinators, chronic pain management support, "life figure outers” (people to help you get organized)

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  • Database of Human Ideals – documenting the multiplicity  of happy cultures/ways of being
  • Human Augmentation / Personal Knowledge Management Tools

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  • On-the-fly knowledge capture
  • Graph query engine
  • Great macroing/automation frameworks
  • #ideaflow

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  • Database of “Survival Guides” in different contexts
  • #partlyDone Open “Music for Concentration” playlists everyone can access
  • #done OpenLibrary
  • #done Internet Archive

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  • Psychedelics and understanding of different compounds

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(OLD) TO PROCESS

Specific projects

  • Misc

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  • #socialenterprise #nonprofit Help funnel resources/funding to under resourced/underdog nonprofits via e-commerce/social enterprise; the idea would be to move towards helping nonprofits operate better through a connector entity (like No Rival Industries) where projects are created sustainably on a volume basis and purely crowdfunded where 100% of profits are given away on the notion of ideation for the next-gen of nonprofit fundraising

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  • Volume 1: COVID hits, manufacture handcrafted cloth masks in the US and send out donations to shelters, hospitals and grocers across the country
  • Volume 2: Partner w/ Spread The Vote ---nonprofit that fights to help the 21 million eligible voters in the US get IDs in voter-ID required states; we sell our first apparel line to get funding towards this cause --$40 is their operating cost for an ID aka 4 shirts sold net 1 ID. How can we scale this without a marketing budget?
  • Volume 3 and onward--TBD, looking for ways to scale and the “why” for starting this

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  • #actionable #specific “ThunderPledge” – a website like Kickstarter for pledging to take collective actions when you reach a critical mass. For instance, there are a large number of people who would consider becoming vegetarian for climate reasons, but feel like it's pointless unless millions of others do the same. Using ThunderPledge you could pledge to become vegetarian only when a million other people have also committed the same. At that point, not only would you know for certain that your change is part of making a difference, but you would have a ready-made support group of people all trying to do the same thing.

This generalizes to many  applications – for instance organizing a boycott. Boycotts are useless unless they reach critical mass. (A friend called this “Kickstopper”!). Additionally it could perhaps be worth making a variant “ThunderVote” specifically dedicated to the voting use case. If you are, for instance, a democrat in a largely Republican area, you might think it's useless for you to get out and vote. But using this site, you could mark who you’d vote for with the touch of a button, but only pledge to actually make it to the polls if a thousand other people of your same political leanings in your district do the same.

Looking for: designer, full stack engineering collaborator. Email jacob@ideaflow.io #lookingfor

  • Robots to clean up trash in delta in Laos ~Dheera
  • Document stories of grandparents’ daily life routines from the past for cultural heritage and knowledge persistence

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  • Document ways of life from changing, technologically industrializing, or vanishing diverse ancient cultures

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  • Get way for proven medical techniques like PRP that don’t have financial incentives from drug companies behind them covered by insurance
  • Create “foster parents” or support network for adults facing challenges who don’t have supportive families so they don’t end up homeless
  • Place acupuncturists, massage therapists, etc. in ER waiting rooms
  • Make it easier for people to have great diets with low climate impact

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  • #urgent #actionable Bail out Garden Fresh restaurants (Sweet Tomatoes/Souplantation) healthy soup/salad buffet. And/or help them come up with new business model. Email jacob@ideaflow.io
  • Better/ More Ubiquitous / cheaper great fake meats like Impossible burgers
  • Effective fish farming like aquabyte.ai/
  • Ubiquitous delicious vegan cooking education / meal delivery services like thistle.co

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  • Build really fun adult-sized playgrounds everywhere as alternatives to gyms

  • Rebuild the legomindstorms.com online robotic sharing community #education

  • Web Clearinghouse for campaign donations -- Currently Democrats and Republicans donate vast amounts of money to their parties to cancel out the media noise from the opposing party. My friend Sam Galler ~smgaller@gmail.com, who is super nice, massively connected, and a graduate student at Oxford on a Rhodes scholarship, proposed that we build a website that acts as a clearinghouse for donations to political campaigns in the US. If you donate to the Democratic Party it cancels out the donations to the Republican Party. The resulting bag of saved money goes to charity. He has the connections to get this website, if built, on frontline media, and would love to find people who want to work with him on it. I think this could save millions of dollars, and is a #lowhangingfruit #govtech #good jacob@ideaflow.io 858-740-6970

  • Well-Run, Worthwhile Initiatives that could use Support or Funding

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  • Bottom Up World Issues List from Disempowered Groups

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  • #done Curb cuts on sidewalks to support wheelchair access
  • Hooks for hands free voice recognition interfaces to common websites like Gmail and Facebook for quadriplegics and others

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  • Problems #EasilySolvable with the right connection

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  • Find a hardware / robotics mentor with knowledge of mechanical actuators for master healer, tai chi practitioner and tech visionary Dima Grinberg to help him build awesome next generation interactive smart exercise/pt equipment. Email jacob@ideaflow.io
  • Find soft materials engineering, business or AI cofounder for new smart sleep devices company by sleep researcher + yoga teacher Roger Cole; Contact: jacob@ideaflow.io

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Admitsphere.org

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  • To Sort

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  • Scratch

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  • “figuring out wedding venues that would be covid safe but still impress her parents 😂” ~charles. Contact jacob@ideaflow.io
  • Scratch notes with Jenni #conversation

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  • Systems thinking
  • Connection over missions that have reality independent of people Bonds people who are very different

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  • Talk about things that have nothing to do with selves personally but have something to explore <> “Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.”
  • “Swarming effect” – swarm on problems
  • “Uncanny glimmer of hope”<-- the inspiration behind inaction or apathy; something arises so you can feel less alone and perhaps decide it’s worth taking action

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  • Sustainable fashion brands leveraging ecommerce influencer marketing--PANGAIA
  • Missions in world #curate

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  • Sustainable transportation
  • Awesome local organic-spirit food everywhere
  • Jimbo's a piece of organic fruit in every child's recycled lunch bag
  • X person’s dad has cancer — x10,000
  • X kid on a Native American reservation can’t get access to healthy produce x4,000
  • X village in TZ has no working well pump and people need to walk 3 miles to get muddy water from riverbed
  • J’s friend is living a financially stable life as real estate professional but is not living up to full creative potential — Eg being in band
  • X college graduate struggling to land dream job (with missional purpose), but does not have opportunities to tap into immediately and too much student debt so must settle for uninspired work as a first job

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  • Jacob’s Notes

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  • Different degrees of centeredness <>Helping ppl is analgesic...
  • 3 types of motivation :

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    1. Motivation for it’s own sake (learn a talent, enjoying the mastery of something new)
    1. Motivation to help others/solve problems that block others
    1. Motivation to prove something (make money, success, etc--self gain)

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  • What would people pay to do ? What is a job if you had to pay to do it you would do it?
  • Pay for as leisure/rec?
  • Help people build biz that should exist <>fixingtheinternet "serious fun" #MindBlown

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  • fixingtheinternet
  • <>What people pay to do...
  • If your stable and secure in who you are
  • Then you contribute in so much of a different way so much more
  • Missions in world #curate
  • Sustainable transportation
  • Awesome local organic-spirit food everywhere
  • Jimbo's a piece of organic fruit in every child's recycled lunch bag
  • Forget incentives
  • Look at everything ppl should be doing
  • Just tell everybody what to do
  • Get benefits - more for everyone
  • Forget incentives
  • Trading circles
  • Donate to consumer behavior change — charitable contribution dollars to get people who would have bought ordinary care to buy tesla
  • Way to fund companies to positive externalities
  • Individual personal level of it — just one person is better than abstract
  • If you give money to someone doing what you want to do in the world it's not like you're giving the money away but having them enact your will
  • Like philanthropy
  • Coming from sense of enough
  • Even if poor unless dying but even if so — were all dying
  • Don't have to wait to be philanthropist - thinking can benefit your life
  • Contributing to jimbos mission.
  • LoHaS - lifestyles of health and sustainability
  • Vlogging investment curated
  • Gourmet #Disproportionate
  • Scarlet letter on unsustainable
  • Or unhealthy
  • Influencers promote sustainable biz
  • Or promote you if you have good score
  • Buying tesla about promoting sustainability
  • Pangea brand seaweed recycled #Disproportionate fashion
  • Rare cars / art pieces
    • buying status / respect
  • Instead of feeding fat cats
  • All your actions are part of a mission
  • You as consumer are doing job creation - do you want to. Relate sustainable or unsustainable
  • Charitable campaign
  • Digital edu scavenger hunt
  • #idea  Through historical world in minecraft
  • Climate change burning down louvre
  • Look at how dasu notre dame
  • Middle East bombing Babylon
  • Sparks #goodWork
  • Briona Park #Barronpark #paloalto
  • People not in touch w emotional selves
  • Must look into people’s biographies-- another way of not taking people too seriously when you shouldn’t (don’t make them such gurus in your own life)
  • Do it as tai chi
  • Or do it later
  • Cleaning dishes 2 Approaches
  • Expand things you can do as tai chi perfect breathing
  • Helping ppl is analgesic - mom
  • Navy seals do best who think about needing to inspire other guy- focusing on others pain
  • <>Different degrees of...
  • Home alone
  • Life is just a big distraction for most part for these people
  • Super busy
  • This is tech for getting people out of subtle places of mediocrity
  • Connect all ppl who are too lazy to become enlightened
  • Let's all get up and for a war against our hidden oppressor
  • Take arms against a sea of troubles
  • Book of dark secrets willing to share — learned secrecy early
  • Want people to live in world where they believe
  • If I
  • Rather remain cynic— love to wallow in that
  • Hope is we don't settle for that
    • sad because
  • Something shifts in moment you realize you're not alone w sadness
  • Do we feel like world is not alone w feeling
  • Cancer immediately switch to emotional support mode
  • Doubt who am I this is ridiculous
    • shifting to mode of surrendering to issue
  • Tool that makes people realize shift — uncanny glimmer of hope that ;
  • Otherwise lack in apathy
  • But of tool that empowered me to be problem solver — use cerebro the apparatus
  • What if things are really different — blockchain warp, superconductors - it's apathy we're fighting.
  • Crazy world shift — generation suffering lack of inspiration
  • Something tangible exists
  • Hopefulness in something being useful enough or way to connect another dot toward the solution
  • Weird impostor syndrome - who am I to think i can cure disease — likely a waste of my energy - switches from being wise — accepting things I cannot change
  • Looking for key force of people w these skills
  • You want to cure your parents cancer
  • You actually can be there to cure your parents cancer w your skill set
  • Need that great ops person
  • Cure widespread mediocrity
  • It's healthy to not try to change the things you can't
  • God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,
  • courage to change the things I can,
  • and wisdom to know the difference.
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    #good
  • Barnes
  • Jenni
  • Adam
  • X persons dad has cancer
  • Y person's dad has cancer
  • Cancer isn't the problem
  • Ea persons cancer or potential to develop it
  • X person is feeling subtle mediocrity and oblivion seeking
  • Y person the same see these subtle epidemics
  • Report issues no matter how small or stupid
  • Open gestalts
  • See what resonates
  • Not needing to wait for a blog post or whatever to go viral and nucleates everyone
  • Connect dots between separate such blog posts
  • "Barely have time to close them to sleepl"
  • Just because things are being done a certain way
  • Doesn't mean I like this #BehaviorChange
  • Goes from full to sharp connect dots between mediocrity
  • Suddenly realize acuteness it's your small
  • Problems but it's huge if you see it at scale
  • Lack of inspiration it's like a cancer slowly killing us wake up to the scot
  • Come home

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  • Jenni’s Notes

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  • First principles--start with pure insights independently from teasing out monetization of ideas
  • “It’s healthy to try to change the thing you can’t change (or feel unable to)”-Jacob
  • Uncanny glimmer of hope (if Ideaflow-like thing existed) that things could change

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  • Sub-idea: Create a giant database of all the wrong things in the world (crowdsource from people anonymously or knowing submitting)

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  • Start to link commonalities
  • Shifts can happen when you see so many others struggling with same thing; not alone

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  • Book Rec from Jacob--Gateway To the Miraculous---Wolfe Lowenthal #bookrecommendation

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  • Common thought among philosophers---there’s hope in their brilliance and achievement; they had such traumas
  • As more fortunate individuals, our barriers were a lot easier, does this suggest we can go even further? There’s confidence in this.

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  • Unprocessed traumas--most people (even with seemingly great upbringings)

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  • Abstract motivation is not enough “we need to cure global poverty”

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  • Get granular, specific

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  • Afghan Kid Sling Shot video on Youtube---- Jacob sad if in 10 years no kids would play outside this way. And instead due to westernization, everyone has smartphone addictions.
            “Cultural Endangered Species”----Yes!

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  • Need for harmonious solutions w/o depriving modern technologies

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  • Intros--Maxwell--climate change group #intros
  • What is the way we can materially impact/incentivize climate change solutions?

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  • Tesla subsidy example
  • Literally charitable contribution of your choosing//how consumers spend their dollars enables direct investment (in a way)

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  • What if normal non-profit work merged in partnership with a for-profit groups charitable giving fund (limitless funding, economies of scale)---exists a bit today, but everything is fragmented

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  • 80% of ppl are likely wasting their time (subpar ENG)

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  • “Lavishly support highly talented people”
  • “In a world your thoughts or ideas can have a soft landing and can be met with as much kindness as possible”--Jacob

Learning Quests (Self Development, Also Part of Project Earth)

  • Fun way to get intro programming and get good at trig: Get into playing Robocode and learn to build a linear targeter. Awesomely fun game and way to master trig and learn Java programming from scratch.

Resources robocode.jacobcole.net/

  • Fun way to get into chemistry/electrochemistry: Build a battery from scratch #todo add tutorial link
  • Fun way to get into electronics/electrical engineering: Build an oscillator from scratch with BJTs (transistors)

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  • Build a memory circuit from scratch

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Related

#IdeaList

hackathonprojects.jacobcole.net/

E.g. has things like

  • #App Shortcut coach that tracks your actions and occasionally suggests a shortcut to improve efficiency and auto-programming macros for you.

volunteerforce.jacobcole.net/

projectconnect.jacobcole.net/

climatechange.jacobcole.net/

See Alarming Climate Change Facts Sublist

systemicchange.jacobcole.net/

coronavirus

favorverse.jacobcole.net/

ubiquitizingmeditativepractices.connectordocs.com/

Meta:

systematicawesome.jacobcole.net/

hiringlist.jacobcole.net/

jcombinator.network/

favorverse

projectconnect.jacobcole.net/

hmmtank.com/

Meta

Key Quotes from Jack’s inspiring talk

54:49 "30 years ago I was diagnosed with leukemia. If I hadn't done some immediate research before I accepted the doctor's ideas of what I was going to do we wouldn't be having this conversation."

58:57 "A stage five

kidney disease
means you get a transplant or you go on dialysis. I screwed up and became stage four, so I'm using the crap out of LiteNet
Jack's information management system
now to study kidney disease. This is the kind of stuff that's going to befall a lot of people and they're not even going to see it coming. I mean I'm a guy that studies math, studies medicine, and I listen to my body, and I still screwed up. It's just gonna happen, so whatever we can do – everybody who's in this on this call right now – and whatever we can do to get ourselves geared up to this kind of thinking – whatever it is – your brand is not the same as my brand and I don't want it to be, but your brand is going to affiliate with my brand and I'm going to affiliate with yours, and we're going to learn from each other and that's how this the planet's going to get fixed...There was a lot to like in your demo"

56:00 “I'm here today and it's because I learned how to do research. Look I was simply motivated, you know what I'm saying? Now we're faced with a pandemic and everybody should be as motivated as I was when I was diagnosed with leukemia, but they're not; they still go to the beach they go to parties and not wear their face masks and blah blah blah, and we have this other thing called climate change – and look, you and I are in California – I don't know about the rest of these people, but California is burning and the Gulf Goast is being flooded and the East Coast is probably going to have some some of its own problems – the point is climate change is going to be equivalent to a diagnosis of leukemia very soon for all humankind.”

57:13 “We need these tools, all of them, and to be honest with you, they need to be in the hands of everybody. And we need the MOOCs and the blogs and the people learning how to use them, so they can think clearer. This is it. This is our mission."

On Guilds

1:20:57 "The six of us in this room right now are effectively a guild. Why did I say guild?...We've come together to talk about a problem space and we've come together maybe in the context of actually doing a solution...

When somebody once stood up in a conference room

in Palo Alto and asked me
'How could we have civil conversations online about politics?' my answer was 'World of Warcraft meets global sense making'. Why did I say that? It's because when humans come into guilds to do epic quests – how world of Warcraft is, you know? the legends of Zelda and whatever – and you're going into a cave and what are we doing in the guild in World of Warcraft is, you know, 'that guy over there is going to drive this tank' and 'this person's going to wield these swords' and this person's going to do this and  they're playing roles in a Warcraft sort of thing – but what are they doing is they're problem solving, they're inventing a solution – how can we win this battle? – and it's against a quest to save Zelda or whatever.

Okay, but now, supposing, the quest is 'what are the known causes of climate change?' – so we would now have our roles well:  'I need somebody to be the group philosopher and invent what questions should we be asking' and some group of members would be role players saying 'well here's the kinds of answers we think we're hypothesizing; these are the answers: CO2 is a cause and blah blah blah', and then 'We need these research rabbits who actually go out on the web and try and bring in evidence'.  It's the same process you do if you’ve got a cancer: what are the questions I should ask, what are the answers I need answers to, and where's the evidence for these, for these ideas. Okay, so you're doing this in this guild – doing these roles now in the guild.” ~Jack Park, on Guilds and Global Sense Making

Raw:

"the six of us in this room right now are

effectively a guild

why did i say guild

that's one of my

favorite words by the way jack

we've come together to talk about a

problem space

and we've come together maybe in the

context of actually doing a solution

okay now that isn't exactly why we're

here today but let's we're pretending

so when somebody once asked me in

in in up in in palo alto

um he stood up in a conference room and

said how could we

how could we have civil conversations

online about politics

my answer was world of warcraft meets

global sense making that was my answer

why did i say that it's because

when humans come into guilds

to do epic quests now world of warcraft

is you know the legends of zelda and

whatever and you're going into a cave

and what

what are we doing in the guild in world

of warcraft is

you know that guy over there is going to

drive this tank and

this person's going to wield these

swords and this person's going to do

this and that

they're playing roles but they're in a

warcraft sort of thing

but what are they doing they're problem

solving they're inventing a solution

how can we win this battle and it's

against

a quest save zelda or whatever

okay but now supposing the quest is what

what are the known causes of climate

change

so we would now have our roles well i

need somebody to have

to be the group philosophic philosopher

and invent

what questions should we be asking and

somebody else would be in

some group of members would be role

players saying well here's the kinds of

answers we think

we're hypothesizing these are the

answers co2 is a cause and blah blah

blah

and then we need these research rabbits

who actually go out on the web and try

and bring in evidence

it's the same process you do if you got

a cancer

what are the what are the questions i

should ask what are the answers i need

answers to and where's the evidence for

these

for these ideas okay so you're doing in

this guild

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My Thoughts (Park)

Fundamentally, I see the big picture as one of taming information. I am inspired by the book Taming Text. I was pointed at that book when I mentioned at an Apache Solr meetup that I was building a platform I called SolrSherlock - a Watson-like agent system - on Solr; the book’s co-author told me his book was available in early access so I bought it. It was clear, concise, and very helpful. I later stopped using Solr and migrated to ElasticSearch, so I renamed the project to be less tech-centric to OpenSherlock.

The book concept generalizes from taming text to taming information, but in that space, we must consider a primary engine of information creation: humans. And, the prime mover of information by humans is conversation, so my game is really one of taming conversations.  Guild processes in the context of epic quests, for me, serve that purpose.

Here is a book review for Total Engagement. which is about this entire concept.

Thoughts about talk - Chris Barnes

The talk was genuinely incredible. I found Jack’s framework of work as a series of “quests” that are performed with a “guild” to be particularly insightful, and have been pondering it for the past few weeks. I think that framing work as a progression through a series of quests is beneficial for a series of reasons:

  1. It is a framework that encourages thoughtful selection, and appreciation for the work that you are currently pursuing. It’s not just a job, every single project is a quest that is undertaken with a group of dedicated guild-mates for a specific purpose.
  2. For me, it frames life as an epic adventure. Thinking of myself as an adventurer going on joint missions with fellow adventurers draws a personal parallel to the stories that I’ve read in the past about heroes. The Quest framework allows me personally to embody the hero position, but in an incredibly humble way, as I’m a hero surrounded by other purposeful adventuring heroes as well.

Pictures of Ideal Futures

easilysolvableworldproblems

climatechange

Disaster Preparedness Doc — please add to this

http://worldquestguild.connectordocs.com/ add yourself to people spreadsheet on here

Self sufficient community gardening . 100m^2 per person

Can we model based on Italian villages? Local farmers, harmonious villages, but not individual farming

https://linktr.ee/Postscarcity

https://docs.google.com/document/d/14IvJZnNGWfvNQDpPwmyrcX16doyiblMTGgq3IsutQO0/edit

Source: http://codex.jacobcole.net/
Google Doc: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-dxQdUBJ50f7qMO3lTemHEYcT7XUe4pOTgetf_KcMk0
Scraped: 2026-01-30

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