Vision Onboarding

For: "I want to understand the big picture — what is Jacob actually trying to build, and why?"

Suggested order:

1. The 2-hour conversation (audio)

otter.ai recording — the seed of this entire wiki. Jacob talking through his vision with David in the car, ~2 hours. Skip the GPS-prompt noise.

If you'd rather read than listen, jump to step 2.

2. This wiki

jacobcole.wikihub.md/vision-convo — the structured version of the same content. Start with the Themes:

• Jacob's Origin Story — how the vision was forged in real life
• Vision for the World — the synthesis
• Three Levels of Coherence — self → tribe → species
• Existential Risk and Spa Diplomacy — the urgency

Or jump straight into a concept that grabs you from the index.

3. Engelbart, the intellectual lineage

Wikipedia: Doug Engelbart — Guiding Philosophy

Jacob calls Engelbart "a saint and a visionary and a technologist." This is the section Jacob points people to. After the mouse and the Mother of All Demos, the actual project was always collective intelligence amplification. Read this section to inhabit the lineage Jacob is consciously continuing.

See Doug Engelbart for our internal page on him, and Collective Intelligence for the core concept.

4. quests.world — the vision in motion

quests.world — a Jacob project that operationalizes the Humanity 3.0 / "World Quest" framing in concrete form.

If Vision for the World gave you the abstract picture of organized collective work on civilization-scale problems, quests.world is one of the concrete implementations. See Quests World for our internal page.

After this cluster

Probably move to:

• Paradigm Onboarding — the operating-system upgrades that make the vision livable
• The Speculative Threads — for the metaphysical edge of the vision