== Current Synthesis on Administrative Regions ==

''' Proposed: Earth divided based on Geographical Surface Areas '''
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Regions can be divided based on land delimitations, topologies and the availability, accessibility to local resources and other biogeographical concepts such as tectonic plates and the Wallace line in Indonesia (See [[Infrastructure]] for reference).
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The agreed upon delimitation of regions should facilitate the global administration of infrastructures, resources and shared services.
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'''This matter requires attention from everyone, everywhere.'''
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== The Discussion (or Debate?) Kickoff ==
Imagine being a newborn baby with no knowledge of what life is like; only that you will (likely) live your entire life on this planet we call Earth. How would you want life to be? What would you create, build, engineer, design, explore, or how would you spend your time? How would you want your mother or father or daughter or son or friend or neighbour or stranger to be spending their time? How would you help them live, if you cared to?

We need to start somewhere. So, why not start with how we currently divide it? Why is it divided the way it is, what's the use of such divisions or more importantly, how do these divisions improve our lives? Can we do better? If not, why not, and if so, what do we envision? What ''can'' we envision, especially if we '''can allow our mind to roam free''' of its preconceived notions?

=== What is a nation? What is a man-made concept? How can we manage collective interests more efficiently and effectively? ===
From the main page:<br>
''What exactly is a nation? Is it a unity formed amongst a people that share a particular set of languages, arts and traditions? When we dig a little deeper, do we not find that such cultural traits differ from one region, or even one community, to the next? Do these localized pockets not find themselves disassociated from each other, often viewing one another as different, unique, better or even worse than their neighbours?''

''It seems as though community pockets have more than enough reasons to divide themselves from each other already, that one must wonder once again – what is a nation and what does it represent? Perhaps their flag is simply a representation of the central tax bank treasury which provides the shared services for collective needs, such as managing infrastructure or defending the nation?''

''So then, is a nation or state indifferent from its governing bodies that represent and work for the people, to provide such needs?''
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The Narrow Corridor (Acemoglu & Robinson, 2019) provides great insights into the various structures we currently have around the world, proposing that only a (difficult to achieve) balance between state and society (the ''Red Queen effect'') can result in a shackled leviathan that can ensure a nation's representatives will serve their people (and not themselves). The studies discussed in this book identify many historical and trending challenges that are often encountered by a nation as it ebbs and flows and perhaps haphazardly, some day, reach such a balance.

Such a representation of our history indicates that our current approach to peace is beyond unrealistic. Perhaps this is why so many are reluctant to believe that we can ever achieve ''world peace''. It feels cliche and naiive for me to simply write these words in public, ''world peace''. Why is that?

It's blatantly obvious that we need a new solution to this old problem. Like the old expression goes, we can't keep doing the same thing and expect different results.

=== Some (Limited) History ===
Some historians and psychologists argue that the benefits of collaboration and transfer of knowledge can be traced back to over three million years ago, when the Australopithecus afarensis evolved and learned to throw stones in groups in order to survive. Fifty thousand years ago, as dramatically referenced in the recent 2023 movie release The Creator, Homo sapiens appear to have outcompeted the Neanderthal way of life through division of labour, travel and trade – the earliest signs of societies. Not in the so distant past, cities were spawned and innovation thrived in Mesopotamia; productivity (if we care to use such a word) seemed to improve (increase?) in correlation with the size of the city. Tolerance and an openness to work with others was then exemplified by Phoenician merchants who created a 22-letter language to enable the first forms of globalisation, through which they prospered for approximately two millennia.

Though such concepts of an open society led humans to acquiring a wealth of knowledge, riches and benefits, such advancements also invited attackers and the unavoidable fear that justifies building more walls to safeguard wealth. Fast forward to today and we have an astounding number of diplomats whose primary objective is to work out trade agreements amongst the various nation states that have been formed. How has that worked out for the masses, especially during these post-covid 20203 days with tension boiling uncontrollably in affairs involving Nato/Ukraine v Russia, Allies/Taiwan v China, and Israel/USA vs Arab nations? Currencies dwindling down in value in many places such as Argentina and Lebanon where people once prospered and lived rich lives (Lebanon was referred to as the Paris/Jewel of the Middle-East only a few decades ago). The cost of living is increasing as inflation continues to rise in places like Canada and the UK. Are the states doing such a great job representing their citizens and promising them economical prosperity if they're elected? ..while only holding a four-year position when highly respected economists have warned us of the long term cycles necessary for an economy to thrive? Even more questionable is how history has shown time and again that the best state-related solutions were for the government to do nothing at all!? '''In such a case, do politicians’ promises - and our faith in them - make any sense at all?'''

Some notes...<br>
The Social Contract. 1762 jean jacques rousseau <br>
current contrast with our democracies is that our laws are decided by representatives and not the people (which is what jjr argued for).
He promoted a Republic with active citizens; The Comitia(weekly Roman public assemblies of 100,000s)=direct democracy; the sovereign=the social contract (sovereign over the nation; laws decided by, or accountable to the people; founding political authority on the general will of the people);
he also promoted state-sponsored civil religion (the state being the national religion, the law being sacrosanct, promoting a national identity, cementing civic virtues to maintain social responsibility and cohesion, and valuing liberty and equality above all; people still free to believe their own religions as long as it's not detrimental to public harmony)
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aristocracy (elites leading and elected based on merit; as it's impossible to include every single person in bureaucratic activities; public assemblies to communicate the general will instead, like the Roman republic's comitia);
"man is born free but he is everywhere in chains", laws reinstate the position of the rich and powerful at the expense of everyone else, living in society vs consent to live in them, rulers (ascend to the top through acts of power / power is not legitimate enough to maintain sovereignty) and subjects (submit willingly through the social contract, agree to cooperate for the sake of mutual benefits such as peace, security and prosperity);
state of nature (a natural freedom) vs rule of law and communities (civil freedom);
legislative governance=how laws are made=republic, guv institution=how laws are implemented=aristocracy (when choosing between high levels of dem vs aristocracy vs monarchy);
Religion and national identity were inseparable prior to christianity, church and state were in competition and detracted from civic virtues)

=== Military Personnel ===
The primary question is how to repurpose all the R&D investments and military training to serve global human prosperity as opposed to segregated powers. Is it straightforward to reassign loyalties to saving human lives, as that was the initial contracted engagement, paid for by citizen tax dollars? Can life-threatening hardware be disposed of the same way nuclear weapons were disposed of after the cold war? Can military personnel (tough guys, many with a trained desire to kill or with PTSD) be assigned to communities where they can provide physical training to ensure all citizens, everywhere, learn to defend themselves? Such an approach could turn the world into a stratocracy, or a global citizen army, where every person will have a neighbour that can stand strong by their side in case a selfish individual or militia group ever tries to impose their physical strength and ability on a weaker individual or group. Just thoughts here that will need to be discussed in [[One House#THE BLUEPRINT | The Blueprint]].

''' History Repeating Itself:''' The following (appeal to emotion) video is of the ''once famous'' Charlie Chaplin, calling us out on our kindness (and blindness), almost a century ago now. Bring up the transcript and translate it if you need to, and consider replacing the reference to God with Life or Existence if the term bothers you.

Do you think this message is wishful and dreamy? If so, have you ever stopped to ponder whether you were taught to think '''exactly''' that?
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{{#ev:youtube|J7GY1Xg6X20|640x360|center|Charlie Chaplin in the Great Dictator Speech If needed, you can download the Text/Transcript directly from Youtube|cc_load_policy=1}}





=== Cognitive Biases ===
We’re innately prone to fall for ‘us vs them’ moral tribe mentalities and dichotomies, and often find a powerful saviour, often authoritarian, to help save us from our oppressors (these are few of many cognitive biases humans are subject to). The idea of a nation however, when broken down to its roots, is nothing more than an abstract and therefore imaginary concept. This may not sound obvious at first as we’ve been raised to accept the world as it is since the day we were born. We could easily try this thought experiment though to quickly validate such a statement: let’s say that everyone everywhere stopped believing in nations this very instant; would nations still exist? We have probably all heard of the term “world citizen” by now, so what exactly is such a person if one that doesn’t subscribe to the concept of a divided world? One may ask if nations were to disappear, how could we possibly maintain any form of order in the world? Will such openness leave everyone vulnerable to attackers or to those who prey on the weak?

Well, this very conversation is to resolve exactly that.<br>
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== The Initially Proposed Solution (Which We Will All Contribute to Changing However We See Fit!) ==
What is keeping us from building our very own blueprint for how we can run our earthly lives together, respecting the individual, the collective (the greater good), and our environment (our shared and, for the time being, only home)? Inconceivable? Utopian? Idealist dream? What is the going definition of insanity, to expect change in results while doing and thinking (and living) in the same ways we always have? Is it not worthwhile even trying to change the status quo by applying all that we know about the humanities, the arts and the sciences, and overcoming any and all perennial dilemmas such as the tragedy of the commons, free vs controlled markets, monopolies and the (pursuit of, or potentially innate?) personal happiness?

If we began right now, without wasting any more time, such a blueprint would likely need to include the following discussions, at the very least:<br>

''Each of these will require a pilot/conversion/migration/exit plan from the existing state to our more desirable objective

* Regional Infrastructure (Public Works based on new and equally partitioned geographical areas; these areas could be based on biogeographical concepts such as the Wallace line in Indonesia (Alfred Russel Wallace, in The Malay Archipelago, wrote about a drastic variance in species which was later attributed to plate tectonics and supercontinent shape formation/deformation)''<br>

* Taxation and Policy-making (all humans can contribute a single credit per year to a universal fund; policies are decided on locally and independently by each community of citizens; funds are dedicated based on geographical surface areas)

* Equal and Equitable Property Ownership (all humans can have an equally pre-allocated piece of land – say 100m2?; they can choose to build on anywhere in the world and in any community that they feel they can belong to; if things change in that community, they can easily move to another of their choice; at death, all personal land is freed to be taken up by anyone else that may be interested)

* Value Exchange Medium and Bartering (all humans can have pre-allocated funds sufficient for their lifetime’s worth of basic needs; each unit can represent 1hr of a person’s productive time; the units are capped, say at 100k or 200k; all excess units must be redistributed to another account; a single unit can be redistributed to a different account on every transfer; at death, all personal units are sent to the collective budget)

* Human Development (All that is Learning, including a strong and healthy body and an acutely aware mind, and covering all that a human might care to learn regardless of where they may be located; always freely accessible to anyone; maintenance costs covered by collective budgets; additional proposal: copyright restrictions and all access limitations to information need to be fully eliminated and a new approach to compensating authors must be developed)

* Shared Values, Guidelines, Legislation and Conflict Resolution (Values are intertwined with both personal and group-based decision-making; I personally prefer justified guidelines and best practices over rules but as legislation is inevitable, it needs to be reinvented akin to a Golden Rule equivalent, and expanded on only if using common terminology - or vocabulary that is then made common to the masses so everyone can represent themselves in any case ruling – avoiding the use of behaviorist techniques such as conditioning at all costs; legislation, consequential penalties and correction facilities must use proven reform techniques such as ones applied in Norwegian correction facilities)

We could agree on a date to do just that. Set measurable and achievable targets, goals or even broader objectives that we can iterate on until we feel we have created a coherent reality that satisfies everyone’s needs everywhere. A dream, at the time of writing, but mathematically plausible. Against our preconditioned judgement (full of preconceived notions about fearing others and looking down on those that supposedly don’t try as hard as we do), I would argue that this ideal reality is certainly achievable! Why the certainty? Because I listen to the up and coming generations and feel them craving for a better world, pushing back on the nonsensical status quo that our previous generations had tolerated until they accepted, adopted and eventually dispersed as their own ideology and corresponding values. Do not fear your neighbour for she and he are seeking the same peace and joy that you and I seek.

Once we feel this open conversation has reached a maturity level where our blueprint design and tests can be implemented globally, we will finally have the opportunity to affect real change – redesigning our reality from the very core and removing all the bad roots that we’ve accepted at face value for far too long! Hearing MLK’s speech on the hill was a driving source of goose bumps that have haunted me every single day – and will continue to haunt me until I see this crucial, digitally-enabled conversation gain tread. Only then can I happily die knowing that the idea - the dream - regardless of how idealistic and utopic it may sound, will live on until it eventually bears fruit!

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'''We need to start somewhere, so why not start with ourselves?'''<br>
''How can we maximize our human potential? At what point does human health or cognition begin to form? We already know that the parents health have a direct causation of a child's health at inception and throughout a mother's pregnancy. According to some child development theories, a psychopath that lacks trust and empathy can be created as early as ages 0 to 2 when not tended to as a baby crying for attention. This would mean that we would need to start from the very beginning of a human life and define how to nurture it to the best of our abilities to ensure everyone, everywhere has truly equal access to opportunity in maximizing their full human potential.''

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=== Current Synthesis on Personal Growth ===

''' Proposed: Human Learning and Development '''

I put the rest of my life on creating a free quality learning platform which I have finally begun developing at https://build.onehouse.top (with Claude AI's assistance and a Grok AI process engine, using a local Ollama/Odyssey failback option, to ensure all these services remain free to all learners). More details on this initiative can be found below (see LMBoK and ePangea).

Johan Norberg, best-selling Swedish author, lecturer, and senior fellow at Washington DC's Cato Institute, argues in his book ''Open'' (2020) that major human advancements can be attributed to open policies, trade and tolerance. Of course various authors argue energy, agriculture and other such factors were the primary driving force, but I would argue that these were all built on Norberg's fundamental catalyst as no one would have harnessed energy or developed agriculture if there was no openness to share knowledge of process. As per the old adage, we stand on the shoulders of giants.

So then, why not built our frameworks and platforms with such overarching, universal values that can promulgate growth and catapult innovation on an unprecedented scale? Free access to all that we currently hold as collective human knowledge could be made available through efficient learning experiences. Rather than breaking down faculties in terms of subject matters under Science, Art and Philosophy, we can break them down in terms of human experience and growth potential. These could include a strong and healthy body, an acutely aware mind, and covering all that a human might care to learn regardless of where they may be located.

Access to such quality learning should always remain freely accessible and available to anyone, anywhere and at anytime.<br>
Maintenance, availability and accessibility costs should be covered by global budgets to ensure equitable dispersion to all.<br>
(In)decent Proposal: Copyright restrictions and all access limitations to information need to be fully eliminated, and a new approach to compensating authors must be formulated, developed and implemented as soon as possible.

See [[Culture]] for further considerations of language and religion.

'''We can begin compiling all we know with the help of folks who are knowledgeable in all areas of personal growth, human development, engineering, arts, languages, species evolution, environmental sciences, and so on.'''
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''This is the author's field of study and his primary interest, and so he will naturally be focusing the majority of his contributions to this section of the Blueprint. The best approach to streamlining and moderating this global conversation will evidently need our collaboration in testing for logic, intuitiveness, robustness and efficacy.''

=== What is learning? How is that different from education? How can we learn more efficiently and effectively? ===

Humans are born creators - innovators. We are explorers and discoverers, constantly learning and growing as we feed off of our existential reality; we are imagination machines who are born curious and hungry for awe. We explore, we discover, and we create, in perpetuity.

You may be inclined to think that some of us are not educated (or learned, or informed) enough, and that including everyone’s voice will (certainly) hinder vital conversations and slow down important, time-sensitive decision-making. Well what if everyone had free access to quality learning so that they can fully understand the intricacies and thought processes involved for whatever topic of interest may be under discussion? Isn’t it odd why it isn’t already the case that everyone everywhere already has access to such learning? What if we put our efforts together to create a human-centric, universally inclusive, empirical and intuitive learning platform, based on our immediate need, interest, and/or intention, and customized to the learner’s ability level in real-time, no matter where or who we are. Would such a resource not level the playing field in terms of constructive conversations? Not to mention empowering all individuals everywhere to provide for themselves '''and''' their community.

==== Why We Can't Do This Alone ====
Which curriculum is the best, the American, the French, the Russian, the Cuban, the Catholic, the IB, the ...? What if we took the best of all worlds and compiled all knowledge known to humans, created by all humans, and made available for all humans? That has been my personal dream for decades now.

Though I'm more of a Wozniak fan, the following letter perhaps best represents how '''no one''' survives or reaches any worthwhile accomplishment alone, no matter how self-made they think they are - it's simply a misconception shown by many thinkers over the past millennia (thank you Prashanth, aka Gremlin Trapper at Launchpad23, for sharing this in our campfire/bookreview digital room):

From: Steve Jobs, sjobs@apple.com
To: Steve Jobs, sjobs@apple.com
Date: Thursday, September 2, 2010 at 11:08PM<br>
I grow little of the food I eat, and of the little I do grow, I did not breed or perfect the seeds.<br>
I do not make any of my own clothing.<br>
I speak a language I did not invent or refine.<br>
I did not discover the mathematics I use.<br>
I am protected by freedoms and laws I did not conceive of or legislate, and do not enforce or adjudicate.<br>
I am moved by music I did not create myself.<br>
When I needed medical attention, I was helpless to help myself survive.<br>
I did not invent the transistor, the microprocessor, object oriented programming, or most of the technology I work with.<br>
I love and admire my species, living and dead, and am totally dependent on them for my life and well being.<br>
Sent from my iPad

==== Some Philosophy on Education ====
While studying the IB (International Baccalaureate) curricula, I noticed an interesting parallel with the Greek Athenian approach to learning and personal development. In IB schools, the ultimate objective when preparing our kids to face an unpredictable and ambiguously unknown future, is to cultivate a student Learner Profile made up of ten values. These ten values are considered crucial in dealing with a slew of growing global conflicts and concerns, and are achieved through a constant practice of critical thinking, collaborative communication, and creativity. Key elements such as open-mindedness and kindness for example, increase the need for understanding others and all their differing perspectives, mitigating the various sources of friction we currently witness on numerous borders across the planet.

Consistent with this line of thinking, ancient philosophy focused on developing virtues. If all individuals understood the need to pursue excellence in the virtues they sought after, the whole of society would benefit from it. It's as if we came full circle, focusing on values again as the primary safety net for our kids, similarly to how the likes of Plato and Aristotle promoted the need for cultivating virtues. I also found out that I wasn't alone in making such a parallel when I stumbled on Jules Evans' Philosophy for Life (2013). Evans made references to various ancient philosophers and how they cultivated virtues as a path to eudaimonia - a sort of rational pursuit of self-actualization. He also reported on how these philosophers suggested that all members of society should take part in designing their society - i.e. their reality - and stressed the importance of education for everyone if a society is to cultivate happiness for all its people.

Evans also mentions another important philosophy relating to how anxiety is created not by external materials or circumstances, but by the internal thoughts of the mind. For instance, if I fail a test, if my perception of this event is negative then I will consider myself a failure and beat myself up for it. If instead I changed my perspective to celebrate my mistakes, I would consider my results a simple underlining and highlighting of areas that I could focus on for future improvement, assuming I care to improve them. No anxiety or negative emotions in this situation, but rather a celebration of information and identification of how I can continue to learn and grow.

Our schools (and our parents who push the school's agendas) fail us miserably by doing the exact opposite of what is healthy for our kids, focusing on standardized test results and competition with others, thinking that this is the only path to future success and better quality of life. Though it may be true that those who outshine their peers on test results end up being presented with better opportunities in the long run, education experts have long known that this is an unhealthy and unrealistic approach to optimal learning. Neil DeGrasse Tyson said it best when he was asked about his thoughts on ChatGPT, urging educators everywhere that it's high time we start changing our ways of incentivizing, challenging and assessing our pupils.

=== What is a healthy lifestyle? How can we nurture individual growth, while contributing to overall evolution and prosperity? ===
Waking up with the sun; taichi, kungfu, jujitsu, dancing, singing, biking, rafting, sailing, surfing, snowboarding, skating, rollerblading, playing sports of all kinds;

Waking Up (app) by Sam Harris provided some very useful mindfulness lessons and exercises that I had personally tested out and enjoyed a couple of years ago. He makes subscriptions available for free to anyone who has to think about whether they can afford to pay the fee. I like that.

[https://shaolin.online/ Shaolin Temple Europe] is trying to educate the world using an East Asian philosophy, taught by a Vietnamese Kungfu Master born in Germany. Though the website seems primarily commercial, some useful educational videos are made available for free and the master lives a humble life reinvesting all gains back into the facilities to help promote the art of Shaolin Kung Fu.

[https://humangarage.net/our-mission/ Human Garage] are on an interesting mission to educate billions on diets and practices such as Fascial yoga, breathing and preventative care.

What I would like for us is to have resources like these be validated by various users and educators around the world, and then made freely available to everyone everywhere from a centrally accessible intuitive interface.

==== How does food, shelter and well-being affect learning and growth? ====
Endless books have concluded that eating a wide variety of locally grown whole foods while avoiding heavily processed foods is the healthiest and most sustainable approach to a human diet. Just as many books determined that we learn better when we're well fed, have had sufficient rest, and feel we have a safe environment around us. Body movement is no less important as it leads to better neural activity, hence the many debates that have taken place in the west over longer or shorter recess/breaks.

For example, The Oxygen Advantage (2015) teaches us to breathe slowly and regularly through the nose, expanding our stomach and diaphragm instead of our chest. This approach helps us regulate the oxygen we inhale by warming the air on its way in, and balancing out the carbon dioxide levels that we need in our bodies for optimal functioning and recovery. During exercise or movement, we can add a 5 second pause half way through our exhale to further improve our training and optimize our results.

The Chimp Paradox (2012) is a book that Football coaches tend to use to help their athletes better understand the natural impulses we tend to have and how to overcome them. It presents our brain as a tri-modular ''human'', ''chimp'' and ''computer'' that we can learn to train and use efficiently. Well worth the read.

The China Study (2004) was the largest ever study done at the time of its original writing. The author compared and contrasted diets and apparent results in various regions around the world. Its takeaways align with the majority of scientific books on healthy diets, suggesting that key factors include locally grown whole foods, not processed nor overcooked. Beans, greens and grains seem to be the only foods that all books agree on in terms of unquestionable health benefits. All other books on diets (and supplements) seem to have contradictory equivalents to them out there somewhere.

Side note, I've always enjoyed [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTJ7AzBIJoI any rendition of Baz Luhrmann's Wear Sunscreen speech]. Especially being in my 40s and having trouble conveying ''the value of our time'' and ''the beauty we all have'', which we often fail to recognize in ourselves and fully appreciate when we are still young.

=== Existing Tools ===
[https://ocw.mit.edu/ MIT's OpenCourseware], [https://Edx.org Edx.org] and [https://Coursera.org Coursera.org] currently provide access to numerous quality courses from reputed establishments such as Harvard, MIT, and Stanford. These resources provide direct access or AUDIT/PREVIEW options that allow anyone to peruse through all course materials and content for free.

One such course is entitled Learning How to Learn, by Barbara Oakley (and colleagues). Its sequel was entitled Learn Like a Pro. I recommend these courses to all of my highschool and university students as they help us better understand ourselves and how we can optimize our time learning far more efficiently and effectively than we would without knowledge of the contents provided in these courses.

Establishments like [https://www.uopeople.edu/ University of the People] are working to make fully certifiable tertiary degrees available to the masses in localized languages without leaving their students indebted.

The likes of Google and Microsoft are now starting to provide some access to free learning and certifications that seem very handy, but one can't help but feel a little hesitant when considering how these courses are primarily aimed at preparing individuals to become laborers for large tech monopolies and conglomerates.

Regardless, we have a great start towards free access to quality learning; at least if we know what we're looking for. What about the unknown unknowns though? How can we discover and learn about things that we've never heard of or encountered before? Or what about the fundamental knowledge required by those who live in a dry desert, wetlands, tornado alleys, typhoon-ridden, isolated, overpopulated, underpopulated, mountainous, rural, snowy, andor remote areas? Should driving or riding a horse or manipulating a shovel be part of a learning curriculum?

A friend of mine took a different approach to learning by building [https://LinkPower.eco LinkPower] an creating an entirely new ecosystem aiming to reward kindness and efforts based on the measurable impact generated by individual action(s). This encourages on-ground activity and generates both real-world results, and tangible value in exchange for the time invested (a measured energy exchange = Qi Token). The data generated by these actions in the various communities around the world then form a rhizome of human knowledge, providing lessons learned to anyone, anywhere. I have been supporting this initiative for a few years now and believe is a promising step in the right direction.<br>

Community service may very well be a decent step forward in rebuilding community values and bringing people together again, growing and learning together through their actions and lessons learned. An approach to learning through living.

When ChatGPT was released, I was relieved to know that I may no longer have to build such an engine by myself. We still need to:
* Ensure that it is relevant and free of biases if we're to leverage it to provide free, quality, universally inclusive human-centric learning (garbage in, garbage out)
* Build an intuitive interface (which is apparently being worked on already) to help users find the right questions and prompts (it's far more difficult to pose the right question than it is to provide the right answer);
* Provide an avatar to measure and track personal learning, progress and growth
* Provide an actions and skills interface to determine what learning experiences are still required before we can perform certain tasks that we are interested in accomplishing (whether personally, for an association's program objectives or any particular community need)
* So on and so forth

To track and evaluate learning progress, data miners can create algorithms based on [https://educationaldatamining.org/ Educational Data Mining] advances with the help of courses like the one produced by PennX, entitled ''Knowledge Inference and Structure Discovery for Education'' ([https://edx.org free to audit on edx.org]).

In terms of written content, Blinkist has done a pretty fantastic job at making a wealth of information easily digestible. There are few free alternatives like it at the moment, but I've personally used it for over 3yrs now and haven't cared enough to investigate them. I would love to see a web of relationships amongst their library, connecting the various views and perspectives that are shared by the authors. This could allow us to create virtual "past" conversations that can transcend time!

==== Can We Envision Something Better than What we Have Now? ====
There is a need for an intuitive, human centric learning platform that can help anyone, anywhere, learn anything that they need to learn. A basic graphic interface like WebMD's can provide the necessary UI/UX to allow anyone to click into the possibilities that we can make available for them to learn.

All human learning experiences can be considered as micro projects within larger projects - or as a portfolio of programs and projects. The [https://www.pmi.org/pmbok-guide-standards/foundational/pmbok Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBoK, PMi.org)] provides us with a plausible template to work with. They broke down the nature of all projects into 49 processes, tools and techniques, divided into a set of ten ''knowledge areas'' and five ''process groups''.

I suggest we aim to neatly encode all learning experiences in a similar fashion, breaking down all learning processes (experiences) into a set of Human Faculties (e.g. health, communication, stem, arts, etc.) vs Developmental Stages (such as Piaget's, for a baseline example). Call it the Life Management Body of Knowledge (LMBoK); the core engine on which a human centric, free quality human learning platform can be built.

LMBoK Objectives can be defined as Life Manifestos; preset or manually configurable pathways and achievements to pursue, as we incrementally select our learning chunks and modules.
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Here's how I described [https://www.epangea.top/the-mission#h.bngtkulgmksu ePangea's LMBoK] in February 2020 - ''Lmbok at a glance - bird's eyeview

An intuitive interface that permits users to determine the plausible questions that they could explore and discover, which they would not otherwise know to ask (to know about things that they did not know they did not know)

A database populated by all humans everywhere, translated in all languages on the fly leveraging existing systems such as Google and Bing translators (which continue to improve exponentially over time).

An algorithm (or a set of algorithms) that weigh(s) the value of a "knowledge chunk" based on various attributes such as usability, applicability, dependability, source reputation, user demographic, peer reviews and overall credibility rating.

A platform that is open source and transparent, leveraging the latest in AI for up-to-the-minute real-time accuracy, blockchain ledgers for long term tracking and accountability, and data mining and machine learning for validation, verification, automation and optimization

The result is a state-of-the-art, intuitive and human-centric learning tool that is freely accessible to anyone, anywhere and at anytime. It is to be maintained by everyone who cares to learn andor to share knowledge about anything we have thus far discovered as a human collective.

It is in essence a theoretical and tentative snapshot of our human faculties, translated into content areas that are broken down into an individual's developmental stages, to help us navigate and nurture our physiological and intellectual growth by selecting what, when and how to best learn (and further develop, grow and improve) anything that we care to learn (and further develop, grow and improve).

To navigate such learning and growth, I always envisioned an avatar-like profile that tracks our progress in terms of human skills and traits. The same way a Role Playing Game tracks a players Strength, Magic, Health and such, imagine tracking our own human abilities in terms of Cardio Capacity, Muscle Definition, Language Mastery (per language), Design Skills (per field, such as Art, Architecture, Engineering, etc), Coding Capability (per language), and so on and so forth, however we deem necessary. Learners can then quickly identify what skillsets they care to improve next based on what they care to achieve, while employers - or those seeking help and collaboration - can quickly determine who has the necessary qualifications and ready to jump in. They can also provide the precise support and professional development required by the learner so that they can achieve their mission objectives; Win-Win for everyone involved.

The word ''[https://www.epangea.top ePangea]'' was selected only to represent the idea of global unity. It was simply available at the time of domain name registration. I've concocted numerous names in the past such as [https://epolaris.epangea.top/ ePolaris], HumanCurriculum, LifeManagementBodyOfKnowledge or LMBoK, LilBlueMarble (and even - though a little less polite - ''How to Train a Human''). Some were new back in the day but are now in use for other purposes; some were already being used for other purposes; some were just, inappropriate I suppose.

As I write this journal entry on the final day (30th) of the ninth month (September) in 2023, well-respected media outlets such as the BBC are discussing how ''Discovering Alien Lifeform is Now, Only a Matter of Time!''; how ''Unlimited Energy through Nuclear Fusion is Now, Achievable''; and how ''Superconductivity, or frictionless energy transfer Is possible''.

Anything, is possible.

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A Life Lived Freely

2026-06-09T17:00:50Z

Ohadmin: Created page with " '''''A Good Life Lived Truly Free'''<br><br>Curiosity leads to discovery.<br>Discovery sparks new feelings.<br>Feelings inform our learning.<br>Learning feeds our growth.<br>Growing urges creation.<br>Creation provides meaning.<br><br>So Living without Curiosity, Discovery, Emotion, Learning, Growth and Creation may lead to a mundane existence, perhaps devoid of meaning. Perhaps this is when we are most susceptible to manipulation. To believing others' stories as our ow..."

'''''A Good Life Lived Truly Free'''<br><br>Curiosity leads to discovery.<br>Discovery sparks new feelings.<br>Feelings inform our learning.<br>Learning feeds our growth.<br>Growing urges creation.<br>Creation provides meaning.<br><br>So Living without Curiosity, Discovery, Emotion, Learning, Growth and Creation may lead to a mundane existence, perhaps devoid of meaning. Perhaps this is when we are most susceptible to manipulation. To believing others' stories as our own.<br><br>Life does not have to be a fight. We can all choose to make our life a never-ending dance. We just need to be curious enough to discover the frequencies around us and learn to surf them together; to grow together; to create together; to live freely, together.<br><br>It all starts with you and I respecting ourself enough to value our existence, without the need for anyone else validating or affirming this for us. You and I are important simply in existing, not because anyone tells us that we are. Not our priests. Not our politicians. Not our teachers. Not our role models. Not even our parents, guardians, caregivers or any other person we trust.<br><br>We value our existence by living our authentic selves, by being, ourselves at all times, and by trusting ourselves before anyone, or anything else. That is how we form a personal identity. One that directly and indirectly impacts our environment, whether we like it or not. Our environment will shape us, but our choices dictate whether we remain static with a fixed mindset, or we self-actualize through a growth mindset. The choice is ours, and ours alone to make.<br><br>We are all teachers. We are all students. Be curious. Stay curious. Don't just observe. Don't be shy. Participate. We all need you to jump in, if we are ever going to figure this out together.''

THE BACKEND WISHBONE

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About All of Us

2026-06-09T16:58:13Z

Ohadmin:

After decades of living and working across multiple continents, cultures and industries, I became increasingly interested in a question that seemed to underlie many of the challenges facing humanity:

>>> How can human beings live better together? <<<

While technology, education, economics, governance, agriculture and culture are often treated as separate domains, I came to see them as interconnected parts of a larger human system.

This realization led to the creation of OneHouse, an open collaborative initiative built on the idea that humanity already possesses much of the knowledge required to create a more equitable, sustainable and flourishing future. The challenge is not merely generating new ideas, but creating environments where diverse voices can collaboratively examine assumptions, share perspectives and design solutions together.

Using the collaborative framework popularized by Wikipedia, OneHouse seeks to shift the conversation from documenting our past toward intentionally designing our future. Rather than prescribing fixed answers, it provides an evolving space where people can collectively explore questions related to education, governance, resource stewardship, community development, economics, culture and human well-being.

The project reflects a belief that no single individual, institution or ideology possesses all the answers. Meaningful progress emerges through open dialogue, continuous learning, respectful disagreement and collective intelligence.

At its heart, OneHouse is not about systems, policies or technology.

It is about expanding humanity's capacity to collaborate in service of a shared future.

About All of Us

2026-06-09T16:57:40Z

Ohadmin: Created page with "After decades of living and working across multiple continents, cultures and industries, I became increasingly interested in a question that seemed to underlie many of the challenges facing humanity: **How can human beings live better together?** While technology, education, economics, governance, agriculture and culture are often treated as separate domains, I came to see them as interconnected parts of a larger human system. This realization led to the creation of O..."

After decades of living and working across multiple continents, cultures and industries, I became increasingly interested in a question that seemed to underlie many of the challenges facing humanity:

**How can human beings live better together?**

While technology, education, economics, governance, agriculture and culture are often treated as separate domains, I came to see them as interconnected parts of a larger human system.

This realization led to the creation of OneHouse, an open collaborative initiative built on the idea that humanity already possesses much of the knowledge required to create a more equitable, sustainable and flourishing future. The challenge is not merely generating new ideas, but creating environments where diverse voices can collaboratively examine assumptions, share perspectives and design solutions together.

Using the collaborative framework popularized by Wikipedia, OneHouse seeks to shift the conversation from documenting our past toward intentionally designing our future. Rather than prescribing fixed answers, it provides an evolving space where people can collectively explore questions related to education, governance, resource stewardship, community development, economics, culture and human well-being.

The project reflects a belief that no single individual, institution or ideology possesses all the answers. Meaningful progress emerges through open dialogue, continuous learning, respectful disagreement and collective intelligence.

At its heart, OneHouse is not about systems, policies or technology.

It is about expanding humanity's capacity to collaborate in service of a shared future.

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2026-06-09T16:56:57Z

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== THE BACKEND WISHBONE ==
The backend functionality, sustainability, theories and perspectives; the vision and mission, should we choose to accept it.
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* [[About All of Us]] Short and Sweet AI-Generated Summary
* [[Purpose, Mission and Vision]] What is One House and why? (Some of) The (long-winded, but impactful) thinking behind the mission
* [[The Drive, The Push, The Pull]] More on why we need such a platform (Working on video; ping me if you want to help)
* [[The Purpose]] - [[Perennial Illusions]] - [[A Time for Change]] More Reading, if you care.
* [[Guideline: Keep it Simple]] Free tools exist that can develop our dialogue and debate.
* [[Technical and Financial]] One'Ouse Project Setup, Configuration, Management Costs and Sustainability
* [[Author]] Just another human like you, great alone, but synergistically awesome if/when we stand together

'''''A Good Life Lived Truly Free'''<br><br>Curiosity leads to discovery.<br>Discovery sparks new feelings.<br>Feelings inform our learning.<br>Learning feeds our growth.<br>Growing urges creation.<br>Creation provides meaning.<br><br>So Living without Curiosity, Discovery, Emotion, Learning, Growth and Creation may lead to a mundane existence, perhaps devoid of meaning. Perhaps this is when we are most susceptible to manipulation. To believing others' stories as our own.<br><br>Life does not have to be a fight. We can all choose to make our life a never-ending dance. We just need to be curious enough to discover the frequencies around us and learn to surf them together; to grow together; to create together; to live freely, together.<br><br>It all starts with you and I respecting ourself enough to value our existence, without the need for anyone else validating or affirming this for us. You and I are important simply in existing, not because anyone tells us that we are. Not our priests. Not our politicians. Not our teachers. Not our role models. Not even our parents, guardians, caregivers or any other person we trust.<br><br>We value our existence by living our authentic selves, by being, ourselves at all times, and by trusting ourselves before anyone, or anything else. That is how we form a personal identity. One that directly and indirectly impacts our environment, whether we like it or not. Our environment will shape us, but our choices dictate whether we remain static with a fixed mindset, or we self-actualize through a growth mindset. The choice is ours, and ours alone to make.<br><br>We are all teachers. We are all students. Be curious. Stay curious. Don't just observe. Don't be shy. Participate. We all need you to jump in, if we are ever going to figure this out together.''