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--- confidence: high related: - wiki/themes/jacob-origin-story.md - wiki/themes/vision-for-the-world.md - wiki/projects/ideaflow.md sources: - raw/transcript.md title: Jacob Cole type: entity visibility: public --- # Jacob Cole The author of the vision. Founder of [[IdeaFlow]]. The "Speaker 2" of the otter.ai transcript. ## One-line summary A technologist-philosopher who used a debilitating RSI injury as the seed for a comprehensive vision spanning [[Sparks of Motivation|attention capture]], [[Collective Intelligence|civilization-scale coordination]], and [[Super Conscious State|contemplative cultivation]]. ## Quick facts (from this transcript) - Built things from childhood — Lego Mindstorms, robotics, web dev in middle school - By high school, had **hired 19 friends** to work on startups and websites - Developed severe RSI in junior year of high school - Got into MIT and a few other schools; chose MIT - Studied **English and Computer Science** at MIT - Worked on **voice recognition interfaces** for two years at MIT — building hands-free systems - Hosted intellectual salons; people he introduced raised **>$200M in venture capital together** - Built knowledge-graph schemes for matchmaking; first customer was [[Silicon Valley Bank]] - Spent a year at Oxford; met a quantum-computing PhD TA who became co-founder of an open-source knowledge-graph project - [[Tim Berners-Lee]] became one of his research advisors - Took his last year off to start the company - Got angel funding (incl. [[Naval Ravikant]]); raised VC; now shipping enterprise product → [[IdeaFlow]] ## Family - **Father**: yoga teacher and **sleep scientist**. His father's first teacher teaches at the [[California Yoga Center]] in Mountain View - (Mother mentioned only in passing as also somehow involved in education — David's mother is a kindergarten educator; Jacob's mom said "see one, do one, teach one" as her favorite educational principle) ## Where he is now - Lives in a house, somewhere in the Peninsula (per the conversation context — Stanford bike-through-golf-course distance, with [[Harrison]] in San Mateo) - Has roommates, including someone named Dana - Hosts cowork sessions - Bikes are mostly up-for-grabs in the garage; trash goes out Monday nights (These domestic details are included only because they appear in the transcript and color the picture; nothing important hangs on them.) ## Body - **Repetitive strain injury** since junior year of high school — has been managing it for years - Multiple **ligament injuries** in the body, possibly related to slightly anomalous connective tissue - A **wrist injury** mentioned in the moment ("I've got a wrist injury, so I'm only going to do one hand properly") - Has done extensive PT, acupuncture, qigong, yoga, meditation - Practices [[Iyengar Yoga]] regularly at the [[California Yoga Center]] ## Practice - Deep [[Qigong (Arms-Up Position)|qigong]] practice - Iyengar yoga - Daily contemplative practice - Has had paradigm-level "downloads" during meditation - Considers the [[Super Conscious State]] practices the highest-leverage thing in the world ## Methods of capture - Voice-first thought capture (uses Whisper extensively, considers Willow comparable but not differentiable) - Knowledge-graph storage of [[Sparks of Motivation|sparks]] - This very wiki, on WikiHub, is his project for capturing the vision in graph form ## What he's building (this conversation) The full project list scattered across the conversation: - [[IdeaFlow]] — the company - [[manifestos.world]] / Vision Charter - [[World Issue Tracker]] - [[World Progress Bar]] - [[Empowerment Algorithm App]] — secret open-source local-LLM feed filter - [[Healing Arts Grant]] - [[Alumni Funder]] — Kickstarter for student projects - [[Accretive Collective Action]] family — Kickstarter for boycotts, pledges, voting - [[NVC Video Prize]] — $1,000 bounty - [[Journeyman Model]] — apprentice/journeyman/master pipeline - The LLM wiki itself — *this wiki* ## Influences (from the transcript) - [[Doug Engelbart]] — patron saint - [[Jack Park]] — mentor, Engelbart colleague, knowledge-graph cancer cure - [[Tim Berners-Lee]] — research advisor - [[Marshall Rosenberg]] — NVC, "consciousness is unbelievably high" - [[Ken Wilber]] — integral theory, stages of society - [[Robert Kegan]] — adult development - [[Naval Ravikant]] — angel investor; "as soon as inspiration strikes, pursue it" - [[Nick Bostrom]] — *Deep Utopia*, post-instrumentalism - A friend (likely [[Harrison]]) — coined "[[Wu Wei Disclosure|wu wei disclosure]]" - Buddhist, Taoist, Tibetan Buddhist, Indigenous Amazonian, Zulu, Kogi traditions referenced throughout ## Where to read his stuff - **Idea list / brainstorms**: per the conversation, he has a long-running public document of ideas (not URL-confirmed in this transcript — likely related to but distinct from [[manifestos.world]]) - **manifestos.world** — Vision Charter - **yoga.jacobcole.net** — the book *Religiousness in Yoga*, with Jacob's six-page excerpt - **This wiki** — the LLM wiki he committed to making the night of this conversation ## Communication style (observed in transcript) - Drops a lot of frameworks fast — David explicitly says "you can unpack them for years" - Cross-disciplinary by default (physics → meditation → software → indigenous tradition in successive sentences) - Comfortable with metaphysical claims, but careful to flag when something is speculative - Strong taste for software-engineering metaphors applied to spiritual / collective concepts (see [[Merge Conflicts as Metaphor]]) - Sees his own life-arc as the **organizing structure** for the vision — pain → cultivation → integration → outward expression ## Related - [[Jacob's Origin Story]] — the full life-arc - [[Vision for the World]] — the full vision - [[IdeaFlow]] — the company