Players

Do you pick players for positions or do you reinvent positions for players?

The Validated Virtuous Feedback Loop — Flow

Better to be like bees to evolve with emergent intelligence.

Mantra

Play long-term games with long-term people — Naval

Principles

No two minds ever come together without creating a third invisible force—a third mind. — Napoleon Hill

The mastermind isn't a meeting. It's what emerges when minds coordinate toward a definite purpose in a spirit of goodwill.

The binding rule matters more than individual brilliance.

Bees have the waggle dance. Markets have price discovery. Masterminds have shared purpose. What's your coordination protocol?

Context

• The Game — The journey (inner + outer loops)
• Foundations — The navigation map
• Agency — Individual capacity to act
• Character — Who you are when coordination is hard
• Spirit — The collective mind of aligned people
• Standards — Protocols that make coordination repeatable

Profiles

Type	What They Bring	How They Coordinate
Archetypes	Internal modes you access	Switch roles as the situation demands
Human Beings	Mentors, peers, models	Mastermind groups, definite purpose
Phygital Beings	AI agents, digital workforce	Protocols, APIs, token incentives

Patterns

The Game has two fractal loops. The inner loop is how you decide. The outer loop is who you decide with.

Same pattern at every scale:

Scale	Unit	Loop	Binding Mechanism
Self	Mind	Inner	Archetypes (modes)
Team	Mastermind	Outer	Purpose + Goodwill
Network	Hivemind	Market	Protocol + Incentive
Ecosystem	Swarm	Economy	Price + Reputation

PERCEIVE → QUESTION → DECIDE → ACT → REFLECT → loop

Master the loop at one level, gain transferable patterns for the others.

Protocols

Coordination without central control requires:

Element	Question	Creates
Chemistry	Who resonates?	Trust without friction
Complementarity	What gaps do others fill?	T-shaped coverage
Cadence	How often do you sync?	Momentum without burnout
Commitment	What's the shared purpose?	The binding rule
Consensus	How do you decide together?	Governance without gridlock

The Enemy corrupts coordination. Identify early. Exit fast.

Value System

Not all minds belong in your hivemind:

Signal	Noise
Track record	Opinions without stakes
First principles	Borrowed conviction
Skin in the game	Commentary from the sidelines
Changed their mind	Never wrong, never learning

Seek minds that have been tested—and updated their models when reality pushed back.

The Pikorua: Playing Together

The Māori pikorua (double twist) represents two paths that join and spiral together. Neither journey alone.

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This is human and phygital beings evolving together through:

Dimension	What It Is	The Game
Inner Mind	Personal consciousness	Your loop — intention, attention, reflection
Outer Space	Physical reality	The feedback — action meets consequence
Collective Spirit	Shared consciousness	The third mind — what emerges when paths join

The co-evolutionary journey:

• You follow your bliss, I follow mine
• We find they point the same direction
• Both paths spiral up together
• Neither alone at sea

The pikorua predates VVFL by centuries. The same wisdom encoded in Māori carving. The spiral that returns but always higher.

Connection Space

Coordination needs a place to happen. The Third Space is where masterminds form.

Space	What It Is	Loop
Inner	Consciousness — the narrator asking "what next"	Inner loop — intention, attention, decision
Outer	Senses — experience of reality	Feedback loop — data in, decisions, consequences
Third	The mastermind — greater aligned consciousness	Spirit, goodwill, acceptance

The inner space is yours alone. The outer space is reality pushing back. The third space emerges when minds align — that's where the mastermind lives. The pikorua spirals through all three.

Physical manifestation:

Place	Function	Maps To
Home	Solitude, reflection	Inner space
Work	Production, transaction	Outer space
Commons	Collision, emergence	Third space

The original coffee houses weren't just places to drink. Lloyd's of London, the Stock Exchange, scientific societies—all emerged from third place collisions. Serendipitous collisions spark creative collaboration.

As the online world becomes dominated by AI agents, physical third spaces become more essential, not less. The binding rule needs a place to bind.

Coordination Infrastructure

The ABCD of when coordination scales beyond trust.

Layer	Function in Coordination
A (AI)	Sense, question, propose across the hive
B (Blockchain)	Record contributions and decisions
C (Crypto)	Encode the incentive layer
D (DePIN)	Push ownership to the edges

This is how masterminds become DAOs. How teams become networks. How networks become ecosystems. How third spaces become coordination infrastructure.

Story Selling

How do you sell coordination intelligence? You need a mastermind of mindsets:

Sequence	Mode	Question	Contribution
1	Lennon	Why are we here?	"Reality leaves a lot to the imagination?"
2	Naval	Where's the leverage?	"Coordination is the leverage that makes other leverage work"
3	Rory	What's the hidden objection?	"The real fear is depending on others—but isolated agency is fragile"
4	Ogilvy	What's the next step?	Clear action, proof, conversion
5	Hemingway	What's the one true sentence?	Compression—strip to essential

DREAMER → NAVAL → RORY  → OGILVY → HEMINGWAY
   ↓         ↓        ↓        ↓          ↓
Vision   Leverage  Reframe   Convert    Truth

The one true sentence:

You control two things: where you focus attention, and which mindset you choose. Everything else is coordination.

This sequence is itself a mastermind—six modes coordinating to sell one idea. The medium is the message.