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+- wiki/projects/ideaflow.md
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+title: Jacob Cole
+type: entity
+visibility: public
+---
+
+# Jacob Cole
+
+The author of the vision. Founder of [[IdeaFlow]]. The "Speaker 2" of the otter.ai transcript.
+
+## One-line summary
+
+A technologist-philosopher who used a debilitating RSI injury as the seed for a comprehensive vision spanning [[Sparks of Motivation|attention capture]], [[Collective Intelligence|civilization-scale coordination]], and [[Super Conscious State|contemplative cultivation]].
+
+## Quick facts (from this transcript)
+
+- Built things from childhood — Lego Mindstorms, robotics, web dev in middle school
+- By high school, had **hired 19 friends** to work on startups and websites
+- Developed severe RSI in junior year of high school
+- Got into MIT and a few other schools; chose MIT
+- Studied **English and Computer Science** at MIT
+- Worked on **voice recognition interfaces** for two years at MIT — building hands-free systems
+- Hosted intellectual salons; people he introduced raised **>$200M in venture capital together**
+- Built knowledge-graph schemes for matchmaking; first customer was [[Silicon Valley Bank]]
+- Spent a year at Oxford; met a quantum-computing PhD TA who became co-founder of an open-source knowledge-graph project
+- [[Tim Berners-Lee]] became one of his research advisors
+- Took his last year off to start the company
+- Got angel funding (incl. [[Naval Ravikant]]); raised VC; now shipping enterprise product → [[IdeaFlow]]
+
+## Family
+
+- **Father**: yoga teacher and **sleep scientist**. His father's first teacher teaches at the [[California Yoga Center]] in Mountain View
+- (Mother mentioned only in passing as also somehow involved in education — David's mother is a kindergarten educator; Jacob's mom said "see one, do one, teach one" as her favorite educational principle)
+
+## Where he is now
+
+- Lives in a house, somewhere in the Peninsula (per the conversation context — Stanford bike-through-golf-course distance, with [[Harrison]] in San Mateo)
+- Has roommates, including someone named Dana
+- Hosts cowork sessions
+- Bikes are mostly up-for-grabs in the garage; trash goes out Monday nights
+
+(These domestic details are included only because they appear in the transcript and color the picture; nothing important hangs on them.)
+
+## Body
+
+- **Repetitive strain injury** since junior year of high school — has been managing it for years
+- Multiple **ligament injuries** in the body, possibly related to slightly anomalous connective tissue
+- A **wrist injury** mentioned in the moment ("I've got a wrist injury, so I'm only going to do one hand properly")
+- Has done extensive PT, acupuncture, qigong, yoga, meditation
+- Practices [[Iyengar Yoga]] regularly at the [[California Yoga Center]]
+
+## Practice
+
+- Deep [[Qigong (Arms-Up Position)|qigong]] practice
+- Iyengar yoga
+- Daily contemplative practice
+- Has had paradigm-level "downloads" during meditation
+- Considers the [[Super Conscious State]] practices the highest-leverage thing in the world
+
+## Methods of capture
+
+- Voice-first thought capture (uses Whisper extensively, considers Willow comparable but not differentiable)
+- Knowledge-graph storage of [[Sparks of Motivation|sparks]]
+- This very wiki, on WikiHub, is his project for capturing the vision in graph form
+
+## What he's building (this conversation)
+
+The full project list scattered across the conversation:
+
+- [[IdeaFlow]] — the company
+- [[manifestos.world]] / Vision Charter
+- [[World Issue Tracker]]
+- [[World Progress Bar]]
+- [[Empowerment Algorithm App]] — secret open-source local-LLM feed filter
+- [[Healing Arts Grant]]
+- [[Alumni Funder]] — Kickstarter for student projects
+- [[Accretive Collective Action]] family — Kickstarter for boycotts, pledges, voting
+- [[NVC Video Prize]] — $1,000 bounty
+- [[Journeyman Model]] — apprentice/journeyman/master pipeline
+- The LLM wiki itself — *this wiki*
+
+## Influences (from the transcript)
+
+- [[Doug Engelbart]] — patron saint
+- [[Jack Park]] — mentor, Engelbart colleague, knowledge-graph cancer cure
+- [[Tim Berners-Lee]] — research advisor
+- [[Marshall Rosenberg]] — NVC, "consciousness is unbelievably high"
+- [[Ken Wilber]] — integral theory, stages of society
+- [[Robert Kegan]] — adult development
+- [[Naval Ravikant]] — angel investor; "as soon as inspiration strikes, pursue it"
+- [[Nick Bostrom]] — *Deep Utopia*, post-instrumentalism
+- A friend (likely [[Harrison]]) — coined "[[Wu Wei Disclosure|wu wei disclosure]]"
+- Buddhist, Taoist, Tibetan Buddhist, Indigenous Amazonian, Zulu, Kogi traditions referenced throughout
+
+## Where to read his stuff
+
+- **Idea list / brainstorms**: per the conversation, he has a long-running public document of ideas (not URL-confirmed in this transcript — likely related to but distinct from [[manifestos.world]])
+- **manifestos.world** — Vision Charter
+- **yoga.jacobcole.net** — the book *Religiousness in Yoga*, with Jacob's six-page excerpt
+- **This wiki** — the LLM wiki he committed to making the night of this conversation
+
+## Communication style (observed in transcript)
+
+- Drops a lot of frameworks fast — David explicitly says "you can unpack them for years"
+- Cross-disciplinary by default (physics → meditation → software → indigenous tradition in successive sentences)
+- Comfortable with metaphysical claims, but careful to flag when something is speculative
+- Strong taste for software-engineering metaphors applied to spiritual / collective concepts (see [[Merge Conflicts as Metaphor]])
+- Sees his own life-arc as the **organizing structure** for the vision — pain → cultivation → integration → outward expression
+
+## Related
+
+- [[Jacob's Origin Story]] — the full life-arc
+- [[Vision for the World]] — the full vision
+- [[IdeaFlow]] — the company
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