garden/plan.md

Plan

• A [thing].
• I have a plan. I call it [Flancia] for short.
  • I intend to dedicate most of my [free time] to it.
  • The plan, in a nutshell and if you'll allow me a literary flourish, is to write a roadmap to [Flancia] with [you].
  • Flancia is a kind of [eutopia]; in particular a [protopia]. It is a place that doesn't exist, yet has both contact points with the real world and some [good] qualities. The working hypothesis is that it could actually be built through the iterative application of cooperative, rational, optimistic, compassionate thinking.
  • My current thinking along the aforementioned lines leads me to want to focus my free time in two ways:
    • Engaging in [philanthropy] within my means.
    • Promoting and building [tools] for the advancement of knowledge and cooperation.
  • Because of the above I'm building an [Agora]: a goal-oriented experimenta [social network] specialized in [problem solving].
    • You are probably reading this in some version of it right now.
    • The Agora, at its most basic and general, is a protocol: [Agora Protocol].
      • I believe [wikilinks everywhere], an [MVP] or application of the protocol, might have some potential to improve the health of the internet.
    • This plan used to include developing [palimpsest], perhaps a generally interesting feature that might in time help bootstrap the Agora; but I know believe [hypothes.is] or [memex] are essentially the same thing, and the Agora should interop with them and complement them if at all possible.
  • My plan also includes by default every pro-social action which makes aspects of my [identity] which I consider ethically sound and constructive available to others for judgment, cooperation or communication. In other words, I try to be fully open :)
    • My current attitude towards the world is to try to do the best that I can regardless of my personal limitations in skill and [knowledge]; being open about both my plan and my limitations is an important part of my identity, as I believe openness as a social attitude results in interactions conducive to optimal mutual understanding and cooperation.
    • I practice [open ethics] and [open source].
    • See also: [contract].
• I keep a [ta eis heauton].
• I practice [open ethics].
• With your help I'd like to build many [stoas].
• Have I ever told you that in [Flancia] there is an [Agora]?