What Multiplayer Sensemaking Needs Now
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Vision
- Keep illustrating the big picture, the [[Highest Aspirations]] as well as the [[Pragmatic Aspirations]]
- Bootstrap: Use Tools for Thinking to illustrate this process
- Tell stories. Narrate this journey
- Motivate toolsmiths to add storytelling features to all the tools
- Podcast: [[Tools for Thinking]]
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Convenings
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Host virtual events
- Host real events
- Visit the [[Bonfires on the Horizon]], the many communities building our shared memory
- Be a neutral convener (technologically, not necessarily politically)
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Examples
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Be the Chuck Yeager of the global brain
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Offer a "Starter" (to inoculate the emergent, mycelia’s global brain)
- Foster divergent demos (to fight the tractor beams of the desktop metaphor and Microsoft Office)
- Model Idea Sex (friendlier than "idea combat," argumentation or debate)
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Location
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Virtual: Sense of Place
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Virtual: Orientation
- Which way is up?
- Where am I?
- How do I find my way around the global mind?
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Physical: A place where this work is rooted (maybe)
- For purpose and commitment
- For friction, synchronicity, serendipity
- For convenings
- We’re wired for place and topography. It grounds us.
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Projects
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Design Challenges
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[[Mapping Tools for Thinking]] (the landscape)
- Major categories of tools
- Dimensions for comparisons
- Major categories of protocols, etc.
- Overlaps of spider diagrams
- That landscape, in Jerry’s Brain
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Technical specs to aim for
- Protocols and APIs (link)
- Point to existing orgs
- Wrangling the communities designing and hosting these
- Funding flows to build an ecosystem ([[Tiles]])
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Inspiring Many to Feed (Curate?) the Commons
- Developers to write toward the Commons
- Users to publish to the Commons
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Play the role of Bell Labs or Xerox PARC in 21C β but decentralized and open
- Burbling pot of open innovations