[journal/4,meta/plan,meta/sensemaking][l]: commit existing journal items plus plan work from yesterday.

* meta/sensemaking: empty but has backlinks and material to consolidate from journal
* meta/what-and-why: some notes from recent meetings

journal/2022-01-25.md

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+# 2022-01-25
+
+## Rufus
+
+#todo/library
+
+* http://jpkoning.blogspot.com/ 👈 rich gold mine of posts on money etc
+* http://jpkoning.blogspot.com/2021/12/is-money-ponzi.html (ans: no)
+* https://www.tse-fr.eu/sites/default/files/TSE/documents/CenterFinance/Newsletter/tse_newsletter_finance_december2020.pdf - some stuff from toulouse on tokenomics

journal/2022-02-16.md

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+# 2022-02-26
+
+# Bitcoin and Neometallism
+
+* [ ] 2022-02-16 @rufuspollock read bitcoin white paper
+  * [ ] Find bitcoin whitepaper **DONE https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf - note lots of hypothesis notes**
+  * [ ] Make notes on the whitepaper
+    * [ ] 2022-02-16 get a markdown copy of bitcoin whitepaper **See https://github.com/karask/satoshi-paper/blob/master/bitcoin.md ...**
+
+# Musings
+
+* How do we efficiently conduct our research going forward? e.g. Create a Zotero group? https://www.zotero.org/groups/new
+* How do we effectively publish that research going forward?

journal/2022-02-18.md

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+# 2022-02-18
+
+## How do we support [Sensemaking](../meta/sensemaking.md)?
+
+How do we support the "making sense" of others ie. how do we share what we are doing?
+
+Ans: See the diagram and discussion below. In short, We are creating a "base" sense-making layer that people can then reference (and, even in near term, can start saving Stephen time / become a useful resource for journalists)
+
+### Our Approach to Sensemaking and Why It Matters
+
+#todo/writing write this up in a coherent essay
+
+- Crypto like climate change and vaccination in representing a breakdown / challenge to sensemaking
+  - Controversial and talks to underlying ideological positions
+- Collective sense-making seems ever more important
+- Getting harder for various reasons: growing complexity, decline in trust / authority
+- Here we set out what we are trying to do that may be a bit different and we think offer real value
+- Need the underlying web of concepts and theses
+  - AND a map of that space so as not to be overwhelmed
+- AND connection of those concepts and theses to the day to day sensemaking in journalism, on twitter etc.
+  - Need to go down to basics, need to get into capital formation, econ 101. How does the stock market work? 
+  - This is bad, but everything is bad - that’s what we need to deconstruct. Lumped into an ontological blob of nothingness. The danger of the nihilist position. Or the leftist position - everything in capitalism is bad. 
+    - Epistemological (leading to moral) nihilism
+    - "Everything's a scam"  
+    - "There’s nothing or there’s only power"
+
+
+![drawing-2022-02-25-15.00.28.excalidraw](sensemaking-knowledge-graph-2-layers-2022-02-25.excalidraw.svg)

journal/2022-02-25.md

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+# 2022-02-25
+
+# Planning
+
+Moved to [[meta/plan]]
+
+# Notes
+
+## On [sensemaking](../meta/sensemaking.md) - Outflow
+
+What is the context and idea of sensemaking ...
+
+Why this project in its particular form (given there is already a lot of "noise" and writing in this space)
+
+Going a layer down from the SCQH into ...
+
+- Why is sensemaking hard?
+  - Why in general
+  - Why in this area?
+- Is it hard in this area? (what evidence is there that it is)
+  - claim: there is a high level of disagreement
+- Why is there so much noise ...
+
+Hypothesis: (crude) when sensemaking working => we converge on truth
+
+- Agreement & truth: align on X and X is "truth"
+- Or, at least, we align on the essence of our disagreement (double cruxing)
+
+To illustrate: you and I disagree about XXX
+
+One option is we both realize we are talking about the same thing with different terms and actually agree.
+
+The other is we realize we genuinely have a difference and it is because I care about fairness and you can care about freedom.

meta/plan.md

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+# Plan
+
+## Goals
+
+Features
+
+* **MMVP website up** so that we can share with people
+  * with a signup offer
+  * with a participate offer?
+* **Announced e.g. on Emerge, Blog etc** so that more people find out about this, & we have articulated the purpose of the project clearly
+* **About the project (? + thesis of structured sensemaking)** so that we can share about the project to others esp more in depth
+* **Library (based on Zotero)** so that we have a place to collect the upper layer of the sensemaking info graph
+* **Taxonomy for library and other material**
+* **Concept underlay** so that ...
+* **Wiki system**
+
+### Milestones (WIP)
+
+* [ ] v0.0.1
+* [ ] v0.1: Working wiki + 1 substantive essay
+* [ ] v1: website with integrated library and wiki. contribution flow.
+
+## Workstreams
+
+* [ ] Online web "home" for the published material e.g. "Making Sense of Web3" so that ... ⏫ **🏃‍♂️ See below**
+* [ ] Collaboration and Contribution (paths and involved already interested people) so that we get more contributions
+* [ ] Content ⏫
+  * [ ] Library - see https://github.com/life-itself/web3/issues/44
+* [ ] Engagement and signups
+  * [ ] ⏫ Sign up to get updates / news …
+  * [ ] Subscribe to our youtube channel
+
+### Content
+
+* [ ] ⏫ What is the home page https://excalidraw.com/#room=f31febc4be4500863e2c,j3FmcGnhKLb8xlw53pBe6w 
+* [ ] Publish updated issue trees
+* [ ] Reports - write up well with good referencing [aside: how easy is it to pdf in “proper” format via Git e.g. like the primers one]
+* [ ] Publishing an announce/intro piece on e.g. Emerge
+  * [ ] BONUS: (or 2nd article) is about this an exemplar for collective sense-making in a “time between worlds”
+* [ ] ⏫ What material do we already have ...? **🏃‍♂️ 4 interviews, SCQH ...**
+
+* [ ] ➕2022-02-26 What we are bringing / aiming for (and what’s distinctive about this approach)
+  * [ ] Write up our approach to sensemaking and why it matters (write up existing notes into a coherent essay)
+    * [ ] Interview Rufus and/or Stephen to clarify what’s the challenge in the sensemaking
+
+### Online Home
+
+* [x] Do we want a "dedicated" website for this? **✅Yes because running of a github repo? See more analysis below**
+* [x] Where is that dedicated website e.g. at labs.lifeitself.us/web3/ or lifeitself.us/web3/? **✅suggest at subdomain because a) can be powered by a repo which others can contribute to b) a little more independent. => https://web3.lifeitself.us ...**
+* [ ] How do we build a website?
+  * [ ] What are the needs / job stories?
+  * [ ] What is the "backend"? **✅2022-02-26 will start with markdown in github and see if that cuts it**
+    * [ ] What are options? **✅ a)markdown on github b) a headless cms like sanity c) wordpress**
+    * [ ] Which do we choose ✅ choose github + markdown because simple, allows for open contribution (have a reasonably tech-y contributor base)
+  * [ ] What do we want for the frontend?
+    * [x] Is raw github sufficient? ✅ No we want something nicer.

meta/sensemaking.md

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+---
+aliases: [Sensemaking]
+---
+
+# Sensemaking

meta/what-and-why.md

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+# What and Why of this Project
+
+# Notes
+
+## 4 Feb 2022
+
+#todo/process
+
+Intention: deep collective "[sensemaking](sensemaking.md)" on crypto, web3 etc.
+
+Sensemaking = making sense of it. Intellectually, emotionally etc.
+
+Collective  = ...
+
+Deep = it takes significant time to dig into and explain this topics properly. Deep also in the sense of correctly nested and structured so that is explorable
+
+Why do this: people struggle to understand this stuff. It seems complex and confusing. End up throwing up their hands. There is a growing set of critique but as a complex subject it can seem overwhelming. There's no authoritative walkthrough of the issues as far as i know - lots of good stuff but disparate. (esp that iron-mans the pro arguments and pulls out the overall aspirations)