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# Vision Onboarding

For: *"I want to understand the big picture — what is Jacob actually trying to build, and why?"*

Suggested order:

## 1. The 2-hour conversation (audio)

[**otter.ai recording**](https://otter.ai/u/ZLVjGRUaEvc0OMeAVPaq-90B3Yk?utm_source=copy_url) — the seed of this entire wiki. Jacob talking through his vision with David in the car, ~2 hours. Skip the GPS-prompt noise.

If you'd rather read than listen, jump to step 2.

## 2. This wiki

[**jacobcole.wikihub.md/vision-convo**](https://jacobcole.wikihub.md/vision-convo) — the structured version of the same content. Start with the Themes:

- [[Jacob's Origin Story]] — how the vision was forged in real life
- [[Vision for the World]] — the synthesis
- [[Three Levels of Coherence]] — self → tribe → species
- [[Existential Risk and Spa Diplomacy]] — the urgency

Or jump straight into a concept that grabs you from the [index](../../index.md).

## 3. Engelbart, the intellectual lineage

[**Wikipedia: Doug Engelbart — Guiding Philosophy**](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Engelbart#Guiding_philosophy)

Jacob calls Engelbart "a saint and a visionary and a technologist." This is the section Jacob points people to. After the mouse and the Mother of All Demos, the actual project was always **collective intelligence amplification**. Read this section to inhabit the lineage Jacob is consciously continuing.

See [[Doug Engelbart]] for our internal page on him, and [[Collective Intelligence]] for the core concept.

## 4. quests.world — the vision in motion

[**quests.world**](https://quests.world/) — a Jacob project that operationalizes the [[Humanity 3.0]] / "World Quest" framing in concrete form.

If [[Vision for the World]] gave you the *abstract* picture of organized collective work on civilization-scale problems, quests.world is one of the *concrete* implementations. See [[Quests World]] for our internal page.

## After this cluster

Probably move to:
- [[Paradigm Onboarding]] — the operating-system upgrades that make the vision livable
- The [[Speculative Threads]] — for the metaphysical edge of the vision