Allo.Capital Ecosystem Map v0.0.1

[owocki]

had a moment of inspiration tonight, and put together an allo.capital ecosystem map…

here’s a v0.0.1. ff to fork it https://www.figma.com/design/HCNzuatdHj40kCwclq6WtB/Allo.Capital-Ecosystem-Map?node-id=0-1&t=EPNbZzrXFXxahWNt-1

(this ecosystem map is a complement to the other ecosystem maps we released at allo summoning on 2/26)

[owocki]

@T_W asks:

• Arenas, or agoras?

• how are the units of capital quantized, or qualified?

• what shapes do the attractors take? Presumably a different shape for each receptor site?

• how are you feeling about the meta form this diagram proposes? Is the focus to identify all the points of contact, or to illustrate a meta fountain, or otherwise? How is your mind considering the priorities of these points of contact?

• more than anything else, I’m curious about how the “world” is represented next to but somehow outside of the main “capital” flow. With this “beyond” state of contact for other orgs being located far outside of the primary world. HMW consider all of this being one world, or multiple worlds, or an action of manifesting via worlding, or worlds-within-worlds?

• “virtuous cycle” = a flywheel, presumably, but HMW define that mechanism more concretely as a world/capital/allo generator?

Final thought: excellent effort and thank you for generating so many questions for me/us to chew on. Very nice fidelity.

[owocki]

@owocki

• Arenas, or agoras?

Arenas, agoras, political economies, complex systems, and many other type of holonic structures!

@owocki

• how are the units of capital quantized, or qualified?

@owocki

• what shapes do the attractors take? Presumably a different shape for each receptor site?

(quick plug for attractor comics we did last year!)

ideally simple attractors for the end product we produce (eg they are easy to use in your community to fund what matters).

and then the daos behind them are prolly strange attractors. or a network of strange attractors all bonded to us socially/economically/technologically (we are a mesh network of daos that rise and fall together)a

@owocki

• how are you feeling about the meta form this diagram proposes? Is the focus to identify all the points of contact, or to illustrate a meta fountain, or otherwise? How is your mind considering the priorities of these points of contact?

root level order of operations for ecosystem building:

1. observe - explore the design space
2. orient - cartography the design space and our relationship to it
3. decide - figure out whats missing and/or the highest leverage use of resources
4. act - manifest value through agentic action
5. repeat

there is no priority weighting i dont think. were building an ecosystem that can be a massively parallel distributed search algorithm over the design space. the OODA loop is happening everywhere all at once (and ideally dynamically responding to where it finds energy - rerouting resources from failing holons to those that will be economically exothermic. [this all kind of remoinds me of capturing value like a slime mold ] )

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my focus right now for this v0.0.1is to cartography the ecosystem, the different agents in it and how they relate to each other. (note: the opening talk to my summoniing ceremony talk also did this in the first few slides

i think the north star we are looking for is

1. a positive sum symbiosis between the different constituencies* in the diagram
2. that grows over time
3. and eventually gains its own momentum

*at the highest level: between the biggest constituencies are:

1. financial capital
2. the agoras/arenas we participate in
3. the world it impacts

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another thread that may be interesting is to go more micro… eg.. once we’ve mapped the highest level constituencies and what they give/get from the symbiotic flywheel… then we could move on to mapping individual actors, the relations between them, and identifying missing parts of the network we should bring into relationship with the rest of us.

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another mapping we’re doing is creating a pattern language for capital allocation. i hope @omniharmonic posts the drafts hes been working on soon!

@owocki

• more than anything else, I’m curious about how the “world” is represented next to but somehow outside of the main “capital” flow. With this “beyond” state of contact for other orgs being located far outside of the primary world. HMW consider all of this being one world, or multiple worlds, or an action of manifesting via worlding, or worlds-within-worlds?

my intent was to show a co-equal relationship between these two flywheels (1)world/allo.capital ecosystem AND (2)allo.capital ecosystem/it’s financial capital . this was important to me because so many companies i believe are out of right relationship with the world imo, its important for allo.capital’s legitimacy for it to maintain a balance.

but given your input… maybe a different (maybe complementary) way of diagraming it is having the world all around the upward spiral and the dao; insofar as it receives capital/resources/assets (and liabilites) back from every single actor in the diagram

@owocki

• “virtuous cycle” = a flywheel, presumably, but HMW define that mechanism more concretely as a world/capital/allo generator?

first thoughts:

capital goes in; capital goes out

• ideally in right relationship with all of its various constituents
• ideally more capital at higher efficacy/value throughput over time

and more capital goes in over time, reflexively creating more growth and strength and legitimacy as the system cycles forward into its next evolutionary epoch.

[owocki]

@T_W @drnicka

here is a higher level map of the above document that removes some of the details..

this might make it easier to think about the ecosystem at a high level at 100k ft. without getting lost in the details at 10k ft.