field report · for all eyes
a field wiki
of analog intelligence
defiance springs · no. 001 · status: #lit!
reading the centerpoint…
// what this is, in one breath · tap to step, or just watch
a card. a story. two compasses. a table.
one card. a problem on the front, a solution on the back. made by a person, at a table.
// what this is · three seconds
reclaiming the hu·story… one card at a time.
GritWik · our stories… #lit!
An invitation to something possibly epic: the direction of the next epoch, the refounding of the story of how we hyper-thrive in the next age. Remembering the old and riffing out new solutions in the valleys of the Earth, almost underground; non-anonymous, fearless, brave, all for the sake of the maternal song: thriving, so that we may all thrive.
GritWik is an ever-expanding catalogue of the micro-moments between us.
the wiki, lit. #lit! a wiki is lit when two or more people are reading the same card out loud.
what happens when the human story is #'d??
This is our collective analog intelligence, told in a deck of people-generated cards: prompt cards for how to mutually thrive in the age of AI.
what happens when we band together with this crowd-sourced compendium of hacking reality into one we actually want to live in?
// the amplifier · added nov 8
Like the great libraries of history: an analog way to assemble wisdom and distill it down to one card. A library of the micro-moments, now, for the current age, indexed and categorized.
the relation is vibrationally amplifying the point of it all. an amplifier of omni. the story going outward.
An analog-intelligence thriller, a rabbit-hole generator with a little game vibe and a film vibe, always sending you back out: into the real world, the actual relation, the natural world. An organ of collective, member-owned re-relation. A reclamation of agency, ten thousand years overdue. A federated system of ownership. Beneficial disruption.
// the wick lighting
the wick, lit: the vapors illuminating illegible states.
An accelerator of the omni outward. An accelerator of useful ideas into the world, quickly, to the right people, to the right families. Not corruptible. Rebellious. A revival, a reclamation, a declaration: a seizing of our potency, our agency. No longer do we accept servitude, enslavement and control by a tiny, tiny, tiny few determining the simulation we view.
// early adopters · the next signal
We collect people by text message, through our mobile app. We abandoned email. The next signal is private, secure, member-owned, family-focused. The only eligibility: be legible. how to get in →
// the gateway · the waypoint gate · added nov 10
The entry point, the instant desire to belong, is around the story. On one hand that seems too simple for a venture this audacious. It is the perfect balance of audacity and humility. The stories are told mostly through the cards of infinite decks: tales of remembering and innovating; indexed, catalogued, hashtagged, analog. And the stories relate to the reciprocal joy of the Omni, the compass, and the integration of the compass.
mastery is solutions generation when alive and safe.
A reciprocal, flowing, spiraling notion: bringing our value, our mastery, our zone of Omni genius, into the flow state of what our needs are. In each person, as they engage, it is mastery and needs; it is self and other, once again. Not knowledge alone makes mastery: how you apply it to current conditions. Needs are thought in the mind and, by definition, come back to the two base needs: aliveness and safety. The integration of the two compasses creates the true center point, the Omni middle.
So the site, with the pairing, becomes something entirely different and exactly what we have been doing all along: matchmaking like-minded compasses. Not quite a dating site; no doubt romance will occur, or be enhanced. Families and singles will find themselves, and find each other. A new way of creating belonging.
Omni is the natural state of alignment of your compass with theirs. One can omni alone with one's parts; the point, though, is the critical middle: always two or more. GritWik is the deck of cards for getting there.
// from the actual table · photographs of real cards, not renders
analog. marker on paper. here is the proof.
every card on this site started like this: somebody at a table at Defiance Springs with a pen. the website is only the catalogue.
palm to sternum, three breaths, smell the air, widen the eyes. read it →
bring all your parts to the table. read it →
old ways above the line, epoch below it. perhaps 300 card ideas. read it →
photographs of the actual cards and pages · these three were not generated or redrawn · 47 cards in the deck so far, 36 of them photographs of real pages, the rest drafted and labeled as such · walk the whole deck →
// the collaboration salon · from a card to a room · built, as a mock-up
instead of doom scrolling, we contemplate, connect, and activate cards.
Every analog concept, idea, pleading, card: expanded and elevated by comments in a messaging thread. Any thread can be expanded, by request, into a full suite of basic collaboration: a to-do list with reminders, a calendar, a documents area. So the really cool ideas that want to expand (not that any have to) get scaled, hashed out and activated by a group of like-minded people.
It interconnects with the mastery network: the thread is where somebody's mastery meets somebody's need, in the open, with real names. And all of it opens as you play the game and your credibility on the site grows: read, flip, riff, mail a card, and the rooms unlock.
we spend our time contemplating and connecting, and actually activating cards.
// the input game
hey, you omni?
which way does your compass tip right now? pick one, pick several, change your mind as fast as you like. the orb and the hum follow you, and your answer moves the needle for everyone: one orb, shared. a tilt is a direction, not a verdict.
first, hold your heart: palm to sternum, three breaths, smell the air, widen the eyes · pick one or several · anonymous · nothing else is stored
// the hum
two tones a fifth apart, tuned to the lean of the room.
turn the valve. the drone follows where everyone is leaning; your picks above add a voice each, so several picks make a chord. drone shifts the pitch, shimmer opens it up. hold the orb and it breathes.