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Coεmeta Public Work Log 2023.2.AEU — Living the Metagame

Autumnal Equinox Update (9/23/2023): recreating & rebalancing

This is the 7th Public Work Log entry for Coεmeta, a Public Benefit company providing data & sensemaking services with positive externalities. It's intended as a window into our journey & playbook as it develops, in the spirit of working in public, contributing to knowledge commons, "finding the others" & leaving a trail + some resources for those that follow. I hope it inspires more folks to follow a similarly rewarding path & find similar (if modest & provisional) success. Feel free to reach out at any time, I'm happy to help however I can!

- Daniel McNichol, founder & Chief Scientist


This post is mirrored at: Github (primary source & version control) & Roam (navigable outline format), & excerpted at Medium
...comments, forks & pull requests are welcome!


It complements our Open Source Strategy repo, which offers more discrete, version-controlled resources related to the strategies & frameworks discussed here in more narrative form.


This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

CC BY 4.0


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Contents


💡 click headings to expand sections, then the Contents links above will work


📜 Prologue: backstory & antecedents

Backstory

Coεmeta is an attempt at an infinite game. The goal of infinite games is not to win, but to keep playing.

I consider this the metagame (as opposed to endgame):

a more balanced, integrated, enriching & impactful life in greater community


To pursue this metagame indefinitely (aka "infinitely"), I needed to reclaim some agency & autonomy in my work. So Coεmeta is also currently a Pennsylvania Public Benefit LLC, serving as a vehicle for more traditional freelance & consulting work, as well as broader public-benefit oriented activities.


(My longer-term vision for Coεmeta as a formal entity is something more like a worker-owned cooperative or DAO with shared collective ownership, or at least part of a federated network of mutual aid & partnerships with other "self-sovereign" ɛ groups or entities. This is part of the "in greater community" aspect of the metagame.)


So Coεmeta is not exactly a traditional 'venture' or typical small business or startup etc, but assumes some of those trappings for now. The first log entry recaps more of the motivations & considerations underlying all of this, & our Open Source Strategy repo describes some of the strategic planning & wayfinding models used so far.


As elaborated throughout these artifacts, public work & contributing to knowledge commons are core parts of the overall metagame strategy & ethos. So these posts are part of that: figuring it out as I go, learning while doing, in public. This entry picks up where the previous left off. (The timing & titles of these entries should make the intended heliocentric publishing cadence clear.)


ɛ NB: I'm generally skeptical of this terminology & its associations with neoliberal / libertarian fantasies of fully atomized "sovereign individuals", but "independent" isn't quite adequate either.


Antecedents & adumbration

This is the 2nd cycle of Public Work Logs, & the 3rd update of the cycle. Last update, I described going off script on an indefinite car-life adventure, cashing in accrued lifestyle credit & reinvesting pasts harvests across a broader "8 capital" portfolio. That adventure & rebalancing continued throughout the summer & early fall, taking me all the way around the country, with a target return date of late October.


Similar to last autumn's update, vacation & real-world relations took precedence, with client work & life-admin logistics consuming most remaining time & energy. But the other long-neglected pillars are not yet in ruins — in fact were obliquely bolstered — & are anyway mere buttresses for the metagame, which this trip incarnated.


⏳ Timeline

A brief timeline of relevant events, from the midsummer solstice of June 2023, to the autumn equinox of Sept 2023.

(see the full timeline to-date here)


July 2023

Aug 2023

Sept 2023

꩜ Coda: eval & checkout

Eval

The raw accounting feels even more empty than usual here, but as is tradition:

Vibe Check

& as for the vibes ...same as last time, just more:

Immaculate as ever
...the path feels truer by the day, & my gratitude & appreciation grows in turn

I'm still consciously cashing in on lifestyle credit accrued during last cycle's overload & burnout, & know that hyperopic rebalancing will come calling again. This is living the metagame in all its infinitude.