Work Log

Process journal for the creation of this wiki.

2026-02-20

Phase 1: Analysis

Read the complete transcript (9,073 lines, ~228 KB)
Read the chat log (68 lines of shared links, research notes, and context)
Read the instructions document (adapted from two-person call template)
Noted this is a 3-person call, not 2-person — adapted the template to accommodate a third participant while maintaining the dialogue-focused approach

Key Adaptation: Three Participants The instructions were written for a two-person call. With three people, the wiki needed:

Three participant pages instead of two
Awareness of different dyad dynamics (Pete-Jessie, Pete-Nameless One, all three)
The Nameless One joining partway through (around 8:45 AM) changes the call's structure
Jessie's screen-share of DayBalancer is a uniquely visual moment in a mostly verbal call

Conversation Mapping Identified the call's natural arc:

Pete and Jessie catch up (8:00-8:40) — personal, relational, Wendy confusion
The Nameless One joins (8:45) — energy shifts to bigger vision
Namelessness theme emerges organically from vault-naming anecdote (9:40)
Pete presents IFP (~9:45-10:00) — most technical segment
Agentic AI stories and course (~10:00-10:20) — practical applications
Emergent co-op pattern and TA offers (~10:20-10:30) — relational depth
DayBalancer demo (~10:30-10:42) — Jessie's contribution
Schema negotiation and bards (~10:44-10:58) — Pete goes deep
Currencies and proof of worthiness (~10:15-11:18) — the longest single thread
Circles and closing (~11:19-11:25) — convergence

Depth Classification

Deep threads (6): IFP, Namelessness, Agentic AI Course, Circles, DayBalancer, Regenerative Economics
Medium threads (6): Local Community Building, Ecosystem Layer, Bards, Circulation as Metric, Angel Story, Nameless University
Brief mentions (many): individual people, projects, tools, places

Phase 2: Creation

Created 3 infrastructure pages: README, Conversation Flow, Concept Index
Created 3 participant pages
Created 12 conversation thread pages (6 deep, 6 medium)
Created 20+ reference pages (people, projects, organizations, concepts, stories)
Created navigation pages: Alphabetical Index

Phase 3: Orphan Resolution

Decisions Made:

Named the wiki "Unnamed 2026-02-20" per Pete's instruction
Referred to ~ as "The Nameless One" throughout, per call conventions
Preserved the note that "Cloud" in the transcript means "Claude" (Claude Code)
Treated the Angel as a parable/thought experiment, not a reference to a real person
Kept Jesse/Jessie distinction: transcript says "Jesse," but chat shows "Jessie Upp" — used "Jessie" in wiki pages as that appears to be her preferred form

Observations:

The call has a warm, spiritual quality unusual for a tech-adjacent conversation
All three participants are building parallel systems (IFP, DayBalancer, circles/game) that serve similar ends
The namelessness theme emerged organically and gave the whole call its character
Pete's real-time research in the chat (correcting Boardy AI info, posting Graham Boyd context) shows his pattern of grounding conversations in facts
The Nameless One's speaking style is notably different from Pete's — more flowing, more spiritual, longer turns. The wiki tries to preserve both voices.

Pete and Claude Code worked together to deepen the wiki with external source documents and new synthesis writing.

Phase 1: Manifesto Integration

Copied the Inter-Face Manifesto into the wiki from the inter-face-bootstrap repo (written before the call)
Updated 9 existing pages to connect manifesto concepts to call discussion:
- Interface Protocol (IFP) — new "The Manifesto" section mapping manifesto concepts to call topics
- IETF — manifesto's "rough consensus" principle and departure from the Robustness Principle
- Nostr — manifesto confirms NIPs as inspiration, zero-padding lesson
- Bards and Beat Reporters — manifesto's cool/warm/hot spectrum as context for bard role
- Circles and Emergent Organization — manifesto's peer-to-peer topology mirrors circles pattern
- A Thousand Small Mints — manifesto builds same architecture as social protocol
- Pete Kaminski, README, Concept Index, Alphabetical Index — added references

Phase 2: Mutual Credit Technical Background

Integrated Pete's Architectural and social aspects of mutual credit networks into relevant pages
Added "Technical Background" section to A Thousand Small Mints — Classic Ripple lineage, Ryan Fugger, rippleusers community, Swaptacular/Villages.io/Credit Commons
Updated Regenerative Economics and Currencies and Nostr with links to the technical background

Phase 3: Synthesis Pages Three new pages articulating the larger pattern across the wiki:

The Aquifer (v1) — a told parable: builder, gardener, listener discover they're drawing from the same nameless underground water source. Analytical coda maps to Pete/Jessie/The Nameless One and names five shared structural properties.
The Aquifer, v2 — rewritten as a first-person narrative. A narrator whose cistern runs dry walks the valley, encounters each of the three through lived experience (tasting well water, adjusting channel stones, sitting in a circle), becomes the connector between them, and ends by picking up a shovel to dig. The cistern is the old centralized model; the aquifer is the distributed pattern.
The Nameless Can Never Be Named — a journalistic overview in modern indie longform style. Opens on Jessie's closing koan, introduces the three people and what they're building, walks through technical roots (mutual credit, Ripple, Nostr), the Angel story and currency thread, the honest part (AI Coaching Forum collapse, personal financial exposure), the naming problem, and the February 2026 moment. Key editorial point: these three aren't discovering convergence — they've known. The call was about groping toward how to do it together, pulled by something none of them can quite name.

Decisions Made:

Manifesto was written before the call, not after — all references reflect this
The Aquifer v1 kept as-is after v2 was written; both linked from indexes
The journalistic piece avoids framing convergence as surprise discovery — Pete, Jessie, and The Nameless One all know they're building the same thing, as do others in their network
Sidebar updated by Pete to link to "The Nameless Can Never Be Named" as a starting point