Game B - the infinite game
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete. – Buckminister Fuller
Living B the minimal viable element
for the next order of complexity
Living B is a coherent regenerative community living a Game B life that can be replicated. Like the origin of life, the origin of a Living B will mark the next order of complexity at the scale of community.
Ingredients
More than Dunbar’s number or 150 people in close proximity
Membranes
Governance systems that enable collective sensemaking, value discovery, and decision-making
Collaboration
A collaborative culture where the whole is greater than the sum of its parts
Metabolism
An economic system that eventually leads to self-sustainability
Memory
A shared and adaptive knowledge base that preserves lessons learned, enables continuous improvement and replication of models that work
What is the path to Game B?
What are the steps to Game B?
“Change happens at the speed of trust.” — Jim Joseph
Step 1
Gather a network of people in an Origin Event around inquiry
Bring together over 150 people from diverse communities around a key question, such as “how do we create high-trust communities?”
Step 2
Leverage the Ephemeral Group Process (EGP) to discover key community values
Use the EGP break the community into small groups and ask deeper questions to discover many of the right questions around the community question. These values are turned into the success criteria of a successful solution to the community problem.
Step 3
Raise crowdfunding using Design Criteria
Utilize the design criteria to raise funds for prizes, similar to XPRIZE competitions, motivating multiple groups to contribute innovative solutions.
Step 4
Use existing infrastructure across the network to foster in-person high-trust pods to create innovative solutions
Participants may form small 3-7 people "crews" after the event, potentially living together in pods to address problems collaboratively and develop innovative solutions, honing skills for communal living and teamwork.
Step 5
Create temporary infrastructure using "Pop-Up Cities" to experiment
As the vision clarifies, bring innovations and groups together in "pop-up cities" for 1-3 month experiments a few times a year. These serve as testing grounds for collaboration, exploration of different locations, and identification of optimal environments for innovations.
Step 6
Gain commitment to build permanent Proto B Communities
Gradually escalate commitment to people, locations, and systems over time. Eventually, the community will be excited to commit to their vision of Proto B in a specific location as infrastructure and vision align.
Step 7
Transition to Living Bs
Over time, networks will form different Proto B communities, exploring various models and learning from experiments. Successful innovations and models can be duplicated. An important milestone is when a Proto B community becomes self-sustainable, contains Game B systems, and can replicate itself, marking the transition to a Living B.
Step 8
Spread Living B across the world to emerge a Game B world
Because Living Bs can collaborate well to generate better products and services than Game A, it will bring in resources. Living B will replicate itself and adapt to other environments, and over time, proliferate across the world to create a high-trust civilization.