What Multiplayer Sensemaking Needs Now

• 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
• Convenings
  • Host virtual events
    • Open Global Mind calls
    • Free Jerry's Brain calls
    • Fellowship of the Link calls
    • Cross-pollination with neighbor communities
  • Host real events
  • Visit the Bonfires on the Horizon, the many communities building our shared memory
  • Be a neutral convener (technologically, not necessarily politically)
• Examples
  • Be the Chuck Yeager of the global brain
    • Offer a "Starter" (to inoculate the emergent, mycelia's global brain)
      • Jerry's Brain: 25 years, > 500,000 nodes, ~ 1mm links
  • 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)
• Location
  • Virtual: Sense of Place
    • We know where the Web and Wikipedia are. Where is this shared memory?
    • The Big Fungus (hard fun)
    • The Betterverse
  • Virtual: Orientation
    • Which way is up?
    • Where am I?
    • How do I find my way around the global mind?
  • 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.
• Projects
  • Design Challenges
    • FJB Challenges doc
  • 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
  • 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)
• Inspiring Many to Feed (Curate?) the Commons
  • Developers to write toward the Commons
  • Users to publish to the Commons
• Play the role of Bell Labs or Xerox PARC in 21C — but decentralized and open
  • Burbling pot of open innovations