50 statements and 14 connections, in the order of the six questions. Open one to see where it sits, who contributed it, who accepted it, and a brief for your AI.
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Commons: Reason Commons: Rufus and David’s collaboration
Release: 2026-10-22.1, published 22 October 2026
Question: What are we trying to achieve?
Item: g-e-ltp-used-in-world (Goal)
Standing in this release: accepted for now by Rufus Pollock and David Joseph
The Logical Thinking Process, made accessible through AI, is used in the world to help people think and act better together.
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Release: 2026-10-22.1, published 22 October 2026
Question: What are we trying to achieve?
Item: g-e-resourced (Success factor)
Standing in this release: accepted for now by Rufus Pollock and David Joseph
The work is resourced beyond Rufus and David's spare time.
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Release: 2026-10-22.1, published 22 October 2026
Question: What are we trying to achieve?
Item: g-e-real-users (Success factor)
Standing in this release: accepted for now by Rufus Pollock and David Joseph
Real people use the tool, with Second Renaissance as the first user and testbed.
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Release: 2026-10-22.1, published 22 October 2026
Question: What are we trying to achieve?
Item: g-e-picturable-product (Success factor)
Standing in this release: accepted for now by Rufus Pollock and David Joseph
The product is something people can picture themselves using.
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Release: 2026-10-22.1, published 22 October 2026
Question: What are we trying to achieve?
Item: g-e-clear-agreement (Success factor)
Standing in this release: accepted for now by Rufus Pollock and David Joseph
Rufus and David have a clear agreement on ownership, licensing and commitment.
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Connection: “The work is resourced beyond Rufus and David's spare time.” is needed for “The Logical Thinking Process, made accessible through AI, is used in the world to help people think and act better together.”
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Release: 2026-10-22.1, published 22 October 2026
Question: What are we trying to achieve?
Item: g-rel-resourced-for-goal (Connection)
Standing in this release: accepted for now by Rufus Pollock and David Joseph
The work is resourced beyond Rufus and David's spare time.
is needed for
The Logical Thinking Process, made accessible through AI, is used in the world to help people think and act better together.
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Connection: “Real people use the tool, with Second Renaissance as the first user and testbed.” is needed for “The Logical Thinking Process, made accessible through AI, is used in the world to help people think and act better together.”
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Release: 2026-10-22.1, published 22 October 2026
Question: What are we trying to achieve?
Item: g-rel-users-for-goal (Connection)
Standing in this release: accepted for now by Rufus Pollock and David Joseph
Real people use the tool, with Second Renaissance as the first user and testbed.
is needed for
The Logical Thinking Process, made accessible through AI, is used in the world to help people think and act better together.
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Connection: “The product is something people can picture themselves using.” is needed for “The Logical Thinking Process, made accessible through AI, is used in the world to help people think and act better together.”
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Release: 2026-10-22.1, published 22 October 2026
Question: What are we trying to achieve?
Item: g-rel-product-for-goal (Connection)
Standing in this release: accepted for now by Rufus Pollock and David Joseph
The product is something people can picture themselves using.
is needed for
The Logical Thinking Process, made accessible through AI, is used in the world to help people think and act better together.
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Connection: “Rufus and David have a clear agreement on ownership, licensing and commitment.” is needed for “The Logical Thinking Process, made accessible through AI, is used in the world to help people think and act better together.”
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Release: 2026-10-22.1, published 22 October 2026
Question: What are we trying to achieve?
Item: g-rel-agreement-for-goal (Connection)
Standing in this release: accepted for now by Rufus Pollock and David Joseph
Rufus and David have a clear agreement on ownership, licensing and commitment.
is needed for
The Logical Thinking Process, made accessible through AI, is used in the world to help people think and act better together.
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Release: 2026-10-22.1, published 22 October 2026
Question: What stands in the way?
Item: r-e-only-own-time (Problem)
Standing in this release: accepted for now by Rufus Pollock
Rufus and David have no resources for the work other than their own time.
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Release: 2026-10-22.1, published 22 October 2026
Question: What stands in the way?
Item: r-e-no-funding-applied (Problem)
Standing in this release: accepted for now by Rufus Pollock
Rufus and David have not applied for funding.
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Question: What stands in the way?
Item: r-e-no-customers (Problem)
Standing in this release: accepted for now by Rufus Pollock
Rufus and David have no customers.
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Release: 2026-10-22.1, published 22 October 2026
Question: What stands in the way?
Item: r-e-product-unclear (Problem)
Standing in this release: accepted for now by Rufus Pollock
Rufus and David are not clear what the product should look like.
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Release: 2026-10-22.1, published 22 October 2026
Question: What stands in the way?
Item: r-e-no-user-picture (Problem)
Standing in this release: accepted for now by Rufus Pollock
Rufus and David cannot yet show an average user a clear picture of how they would use the product.
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Release: 2026-10-22.1, published 22 October 2026
Question: What stands in the way?
Item: r-e-no-pmf (Problem)
Standing in this release: accepted for now by Rufus Pollock
Rufus and David have seen no sign of product-market fit.
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Question: What stands in the way?
Item: r-e-unclear-path (Cause)
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Rufus and David have not been clear on their goal, how they move towards it, or what is next.
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Question: What stands in the way?
Item: r-e-no-shared-actioning (Problem)
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Rufus and David have no shared, structured way of turning the goal into action, covering who ships what, what counts as progress and what is next.
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Rufus and David both want the work to become a startup as well as seek philanthropic funding, and do not want it to depend on philanthropic funding in the long term; David is, if anything, keener on the startup.
Where it sits
Not yet connected. No published connection leads into or out of this statement.
History
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Release: 2026-10-22.1, published 22 October 2026
Question: What stands in the way?
Item: r-e-want-both-routes (Observation)
Standing in this release: accepted for now by Rufus Pollock and David Joseph
Rufus and David both want the work to become a startup as well as seek philanthropic funding, and do not want it to depend on philanthropic funding in the long term; David is, if anything, keener on the startup.
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Rufus judges that selling the tool to companies is hard, because it needs teams to work, has to be sold at a senior level and is not a small subscription an individual buys.
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Release: 2026-10-22.1, published 22 October 2026
Question: What stands in the way?
Item: r-e-company-sale-hard (Observation)
Standing in this release: accepted for now by Rufus Pollock
Rufus judges that selling the tool to companies is hard, because it needs teams to work, has to be sold at a senior level and is not a small subscription an individual buys.
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The Reason Commons repository is released under the MIT licence from 2026-09-26, and Rufus and David are happy for all the software, the app included, to be MIT-licensed.
Where it sits
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History
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Release: 2026-10-22.1, published 22 October 2026
Question: What stands in the way?
Item: r-e-repo-mit (Observation)
Standing in this release: accepted for now by Rufus Pollock and David Joseph
The Reason Commons repository is released under the MIT licence from 2026-09-26, and Rufus and David are happy for all the software, the app included, to be MIT-licensed.
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Release: 2026-10-22.1, published 22 October 2026
Question: What stands in the way?
Item: r-e-goal-agreed (Observation)
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Rufus and David agreed the goal of their collaboration on 2026-09-25.
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Question: What stands in the way?
Item: r-e-no-outside-users (Problem)
Standing in this release: accepted for now by Rufus Pollock and David Joseph
No one other than Rufus and David uses any app they have built.
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Rufus and David do not know who their users are in general, though for the nonprofit-oriented version they have candidate communities in the AI-risk debate, effective altruism and Second Renaissance.
Where it sits
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Question: What stands in the way?
Item: r-e-users-candidates (Problem)
Standing in this release: accepted for now by Rufus Pollock and David Joseph
Rufus and David do not know who their users are in general, though for the nonprofit-oriented version they have candidate communities in the AI-risk debate, effective altruism and Second Renaissance.
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Question: What stands in the way?
Item: r-e-david-low-market-interest (Cause)
Standing in this release: accepted for now by David Joseph
David has limited interest in market testing and selling.
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Release: 2026-10-22.1, published 22 October 2026
Question: What stands in the way?
Item: r-e-david-demo-confidence (Cause)
Standing in this release: accepted for now by David Joseph
David lacks confidence that there is a coherent product to demo.
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Release: 2026-10-22.1, published 22 October 2026
Question: What stands in the way?
Item: r-e-david-user-testing-held-back (Problem)
Standing in this release: accepted for now by David Joseph
David is held back from testing with potential users.
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Release: 2026-10-22.1, published 22 October 2026
Question: What stands in the way?
Item: r-e-david-willing-test-coherent-demo (Observation)
Standing in this release: accepted for now by David Joseph
David would want to test with a potential user if he had a demo he felt was coherent.
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Connection: “Rufus judges that selling the tool to companies is hard, because it needs teams to work, has to be sold at a senior level and is not a small subscription an individual buys.” contributes to “Rufus and David have no customers.”
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Release: 2026-10-22.1, published 22 October 2026
Question: What stands in the way?
Item: r-rel-company-sale-drives-no-customers (Connection)
Standing in this release: accepted for now by Rufus Pollock
Rufus judges that selling the tool to companies is hard, because it needs teams to work, has to be sold at a senior level and is not a small subscription an individual buys.
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Rufus and David have no customers.
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Connection: “No one other than Rufus and David uses any app they have built.” contributes to “Rufus and David have seen no sign of product-market fit.”
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Release: 2026-10-22.1, published 22 October 2026
Question: What stands in the way?
Item: r-rel-outside-users-drives-no-pmf (Connection)
Standing in this release: accepted for now by Rufus Pollock
No one other than Rufus and David uses any app they have built.
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Rufus and David have seen no sign of product-market fit.
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Connection: “Rufus and David are not clear what the product should look like.” contributes to “Rufus and David cannot yet show an average user a clear picture of how they would use the product.”
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Release: 2026-10-22.1, published 22 October 2026
Question: What stands in the way?
Item: r-rel-product-unclear-drives-no-picture (Connection)
Standing in this release: accepted for now by Rufus Pollock
Rufus and David are not clear what the product should look like.
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Rufus and David cannot yet show an average user a clear picture of how they would use the product.
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Release: 2026-10-22.1, published 22 October 2026
Question: What stands in the way?
Item: r-rel-no-picture-drives-no-outside-users (Connection)
Standing in this release: accepted for now by Rufus Pollock
Rufus and David cannot yet show an average user a clear picture of how they would use the product.
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No one other than Rufus and David uses any app they have built.
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Question: What stands in the way?
Item: r-rel-no-pmf-drives-no-customers (Connection)
Standing in this release: accepted for now by Rufus Pollock
Rufus and David have seen no sign of product-market fit.
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Rufus and David have no customers.
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Question: What stands in the way?
Item: r-rel-no-customers-drives-own-time (Connection)
Standing in this release: accepted for now by Rufus Pollock
Rufus and David have no customers.
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Rufus and David have no resources for the work other than their own time.
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Question: What stands in the way?
Item: r-rel-no-funding-drives-own-time (Connection)
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Rufus and David have not applied for funding.
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Rufus and David have no resources for the work other than their own time.
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Connection: “Rufus and David have not been clear on their goal, how they move towards it, or what is next.” contributes to “Rufus and David have no shared, structured way of turning the goal into action, covering who ships what, what counts as progress and what is next.”
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Release: 2026-10-22.1, published 22 October 2026
Question: What stands in the way?
Item: r-rel-unclear-drives-no-actioning (Connection)
Standing in this release: accepted for now by Rufus Pollock
Rufus and David have not been clear on their goal, how they move towards it, or what is next.
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Rufus and David have no shared, structured way of turning the goal into action, covering who ships what, what counts as progress and what is next.
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Question: What stands in the way?
Item: r-rel-david-low-interest-holds-back-testing (Connection)
Standing in this release: accepted for now by David Joseph
David has limited interest in market testing and selling.
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David is held back from testing with potential users.
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Question: What stands in the way?
Item: r-rel-david-demo-confidence-holds-back-testing (Connection)
Standing in this release: accepted for now by David Joseph
David lacks confidence that there is a coherent product to demo.
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David is held back from testing with potential users.
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Release: 2026-10-22.1, published 22 October 2026
Question: Where do needs pull two ways?
Item: c-e-objective (Shared objective)
Standing in this release: accepted for now by Rufus Pollock
Real people use the tool, with Rufus and David as the first users.
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Release: 2026-10-22.1, published 22 October 2026
Question: Where do needs pull two ways?
Item: c-e-req-learn-by-using (Need)
Standing in this release: accepted for now by Rufus Pollock
Rufus and David learn what the tool must do by using it on their own real work.
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Question: Where do needs pull two ways?
Item: c-e-pre-use-now (Position)
Standing in this release: accepted for now by Rufus Pollock
Rufus and David use the current app on their real work now, rough as it is.
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Release: 2026-10-22.1, published 22 October 2026
Question: Where do needs pull two ways?
Item: c-e-req-good-enough (Need)
Standing in this release: accepted for now by Rufus Pollock
The tool Rufus and David put in front of people is good enough to be worth using.
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Release: 2026-10-22.1, published 22 October 2026
Question: Where do needs pull two ways?
Item: c-e-pre-build-first (Position)
Standing in this release: accepted for now by Rufus Pollock
Rufus and David keep building and redesigning the tool before relying on it.
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Release: 2026-10-22.1, published 22 October 2026
Question: What will we change?
Item: f-e-use-while-building (Change)
Standing in this release: accepted for now by Rufus Pollock
Rufus and David use the tool on their real work now while they keep building and redesigning it.
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Release: 2026-10-22.1, published 22 October 2026
Question: What has to happen first?
Item: p-e-obj-resourced (Objective)
Standing in this release: accepted for now by Rufus Pollock and David Joseph
The work is resourced beyond Rufus and David's spare time.
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Question: What has to happen first?
Item: p-e-only-own-time (Obstacle)
Standing in this release: accepted for now by Rufus Pollock and David Joseph
Rufus and David have no resources for the work other than their own time.
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Question: What has to happen first?
Item: p-e-no-funding-applied (Obstacle)
Standing in this release: accepted for now by Rufus Pollock and David Joseph
Rufus and David have not applied for funding.
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Question: What has to happen first?
Item: p-e-no-customers (Obstacle)
Standing in this release: accepted for now by Rufus Pollock and David Joseph
Rufus and David have no customers.
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Question: What has to happen first?
Item: p-e-obj-real-users (Objective)
Standing in this release: accepted for now by Rufus Pollock and David Joseph
Real people use the tool, with Second Renaissance as the first user and testbed.
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Question: What has to happen first?
Item: p-e-no-pmf (Obstacle)
Standing in this release: accepted for now by Rufus Pollock and David Joseph
Rufus and David have seen no sign of product-market fit.
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Question: What has to happen first?
Item: p-e-obj-picturable-product (Objective)
Standing in this release: accepted for now by Rufus Pollock and David Joseph
The product is something people can picture themselves using.
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Question: What has to happen first?
Item: p-e-product-unclear (Obstacle)
Standing in this release: accepted for now by Rufus Pollock and David Joseph
Rufus and David are not clear what the product should look like.
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Question: What has to happen first?
Item: p-e-no-user-picture (Obstacle)
Standing in this release: accepted for now by Rufus Pollock and David Joseph
Rufus and David cannot yet show an average user a clear picture of how they would use the product.
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Question: What has to happen first?
Item: p-e-obj-clear-agreement (Objective)
Standing in this release: accepted for now by Rufus Pollock and David Joseph
Rufus and David have a clear agreement on ownership, licensing and commitment.
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Question: What has to happen first?
Item: p-e-ownership-undiscussed (Obstacle)
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Rufus and David have never discussed ownership or profit share.
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Release: 2026-10-22.1, published 22 October 2026
Question: What has to happen first?
Item: p-e-io-startup-wanted (Step)
Standing in this release: accepted for now by Rufus Pollock and David Joseph
Rufus and David both want to turn the work into a startup.
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Question: What has to happen first?
Item: p-e-io-mit (Step)
Standing in this release: accepted for now by Rufus Pollock and David Joseph
The Reason Commons software is released under the MIT licence.
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Question: What has to happen first?
Item: p-e-no-outside-users (Obstacle)
Standing in this release: accepted for now by Rufus Pollock and David Joseph
No one other than Rufus and David uses any app they have built.
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Rufus and David do not know who their users are in general, though for the nonprofit-oriented version they have candidate communities in the AI-risk debate, effective altruism and Second Renaissance.
Where it sits
Not yet connected. No published connection leads into or out of this statement.
History
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Release: 2026-10-22.1, published 22 October 2026
Question: What has to happen first?
Item: p-e-users-candidates (Obstacle)
Standing in this release: accepted for now by Rufus Pollock and David Joseph
Rufus and David do not know who their users are in general, though for the nonprofit-oriented version they have candidate communities in the AI-risk debate, effective altruism and Second Renaissance.
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Rufus and David together run the choice of near-term focus, grant applications or the product and customers, through the tool, from notes to a tree to a decision.
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Item: t-e-act-funding-decision (Action)
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Rufus and David together run the choice of near-term focus, grant applications or the product and customers, through the tool, from notes to a tree to a decision.
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Item: t-e-act-agreement (Action)
Standing in this release: accepted for now by Rufus Pollock
Rufus and David together run their agreement on ownership, licensing and commitment through the tool.
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Question: Who does what?
Item: t-e-act-friction-log (Action)
Standing in this release: accepted for now by Rufus Pollock
Rufus starts a friction log, and Rufus and David record in it each place the tool falls short while they use it.
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Item: t-e-act-own-question (Action)
Standing in this release: accepted for now by Rufus Pollock
David uses the tool on a real question of his own outside this collaboration, and Rufus may do the same.
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Rufus and David shortlist funders, starting with Coefficient Giving and the Survival and Flourishing Fund and adding others found by research or by asking around.
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Item: t-e-act-shortlist (Action)
Standing in this release: accepted for now by Rufus Pollock
Rufus and David shortlist funders, starting with Coefficient Giving and the Survival and Flourishing Fund and adding others found by research or by asking around.
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Question: Who does what?
Item: t-e-act-apply (Action)
Standing in this release: accepted for now by Rufus Pollock
Rufus and David apply to the shortlisted funders through Life Itself, using the one-page pitch.
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