A strategy conversation that runs the Timeline Massacre session through the team's standard discovery questions (what is it / who cares / who is involved / what changes / what is the proof / what makes it real).
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A board-pruning session that cuts a wall of sticky-note initiatives down to ~12 pink milestones for the Hitchhiker / Game of 42 roadmap.
A whiteboard "timeline massacre" session in which the team ruthlessly prunes a sprawling wall of sticky-note initiatives for the Hitchhiker / Game of 42 project down to a tight set of roughly 12 pink top-level milestones leading up to the July 4th 2028 AGM. Working across a physical board (with a recording and photos as backup), they rearrange cards into time columns and consolidate overlapping ideas into named "launch" buckets โ guides launch, token launch, events launch, product launch โ while folding stray items under bigger themes like energy accounting, volunteer infrastructure, and the brand launch / declaration. A recurring thread is the Trust Graph as the abstract back-end "substrate" (targeted for an August launch alongside the 42 game, the bots, and the spellbook), and the team's answer to the "Fable issue" via Deep Thought โ an agent-heaven cloud partnership where frontier-model providers (e.g. Anthropic) pledge tokens tied to Hitchhiker membership and trust-graph accountability. The back half brainstorms ambitious two-year stretch goals (the "un-singularity," RWA Embassies, Living Sovereign Compute, MySpace.earth) before the final move: sweeping all the non-milestone cards into a pile to begin "the real work."
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Key points
- The massacre method: keep only ~12 pink top-level titles as milestones; rewrite (don't just move) cards as pink titles; everything else gets consolidated underneath or swept into a pile. A recording and photos preserve the discarded work.
- Trust Graph as substrate: the abstract back-end / first product, targeted for an August launch because it fits the 42 game, the bots, and the spellbook; the 42 global conferences would in theory be the first 42 trust graphs happening in real time.
- Deep Thought / agent heaven: the antidote to the Fable issue โ a cloud partnership where foundation models (e.g. Anthropic pledging ~42 billion tokens, scaling with membership) support migration to a healthier agentic network; trust-graph accountability means partners know members aren't making bioweapons. Branded Deep Thought Realized, plus 4.2M tokens for all humans.
- Launch buckets: initiatives collapsed into Guides Launch, Token Launch (with crypto white paper / crypto-economic paper build-up), Events Launch, and Product Launch (Web Summit, October).
- Consolidations: Brand Launch + Declaration merged; academic papers folded into one series; Request for Guidance folded under Volunteer Infrastructure (with Patron Fish / energy accounting); annual-cycle items (Towel Day, Groundhog Day) grouped under the Hitchhikery Annual Cycle.
- Sovereign Wealth Fund renamed the Dolphin Fund: to be established before the AGM as part of the white paper and launched at the AGM; pinned around March 2027 ahead of the first EGM.
- Two-year stretch goals: the Un-Singularity of human and non-human actors (global consciousness / 42 governance); RWA Embassies / Hitchhiker HOA for real-world assets; Living / Viable Sovereign Compute (edge + the pledge); Global Erasmus knowledge exchange feeding Deep Thought; MySpace.earth / MyTerms.earth rewilding the internet, launched on Earth Day (ide.earth) at Web Summit.
- Partnerships milestone: a Davos-style event to sign partners (target ~142, or half of 42 partners); LFG partnership paired with Patron Fish.
- Hitchhiker media: Hitchhiker Radio (ideally August, ahead of November) and Hitchhiker TV (later, ~October); Guide Mobile as a static multimedia app for events, released at Web Summit.
Action items
- Take photos / keep recording of the board at each major rearrange before sweeping cards.
- Cut the board down to ~12 pink top-level milestones; remove the standalone financial goal and academic cards (fold academic into one papers series at the Internet Identity Workshop, ~March/April).
- Lock Trust Graph launch for August; produce visualizations and marketing to launch it before it is fully effective.
- Develop the Deep Thought / agent-heaven pitch: secure foundation-model token pledges (Anthropic) tied to membership; position as the antidote to the Fable issue.
- Write up the Dolphin Fund (Sovereign Wealth Fund) โ established before the AGM, in the white paper, launched at the AGM (~March 2027).
- Name and define the RWA Embassy Network / Hitchhiker HOA covering owned property and real-world assets.
- Define the partnerships milestone with a concrete number (e.g. 142 partners) anchored to a Davos-style sign-up event around February / Mumbai.
- Slot Guide Mobile + Web Summit product launch for October (Earth Day / ide.earth for the MySpace.earth vibe-code-the-future reveal).
- Fold Request for Guidance under Volunteer Infrastructure; schedule Hitchhiker Radio for
August, TV later (October). - Merge Brand Launch with the Declaration; capture means of automation as concise community articles published with the brand launch.
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