Implement shaped proposal 202401: Presenting our Strategy

[elisapaka]

An issue for implementing the shaped proposal 202401 "Presenting our Strategy".

Summary of shaped proposal

• Appetite: 3d (reduced by 1d given we spent 1.5d in shaping and work we did in shaping will help)
• Problem: lot of strategy-related materials but they aren't woven together or consolidated which creates a sense of overwhelm and confusion and prevents them being published and used.
• Solution: inventory materials, create framework to organize them, create roadmap for publication. If we can, start on consolidated strategy.

Acceptance

• A complete inventory of existing materials related to Life Itself strategy (V2 and V3) in the strategy repo
• A framework for organising materials
• Most important materials are organised according to the framework in a visual map or similar
• A roadmap for publishing the consolidated strategy (e.g. in the form of a DAG of recommended outputs with estimates)
• Bonus: Sketch of long-form consolidated v3 strategy
• Bonus: Consolidated v2 strategy

Tasks

• Complete the inventory of strategy materials in the Strategy repo 🚧 2024-02-23 90% complete
  • Add all materials in the excalidraw (https://app.excalidraw.com/l/9u8crB2ZmUo/3EkbCxN8qBi) to the strategy/materials vault ✅ 2024-02-22 See here for complete list: https://github.com/life-itself/strategy/tree/main/materials
  • Create Dataview layout
  • After 1-2 entries, assess what frontmatter/metadata to add Proposal for frontmatter properties to include (in no particular order): https://github.com/life-itself/strategy/blob/main/Framework.md
  • Add all materials from list "Oct 2021 Consolidated List of Materials"
  • Go through strategy folder on drive and check for anything we may have missed https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Vf3yL9xSgbaMSJ5bxpCfXqPG7Bq6-36a
• Develop framework for organising the most important materials
• Organise materials in inventory according to the framework
• Create a roadmap for publishing the consolidated strategy

Misc

• Have we included the brand documents Yes - we have brand narrative 2020, and brand narrative 2022)
• More generally have we gone through entire strategy v3 folder in drive and processed everything (either decided it's worthy of inclusion or not - probably worth having that checklist somewhere with brief notes either way e.g. Inbox page in strategy repo or similar. BONUS: deleting / archiving / deprecating stuff in that folder)
  • Is this (+going through everything in drive) crossing into a rabbit hole of looking for materials we ever produced on this? this isn't everything, just that specific folder
• Strategy wiki: what is the 'Oct 2021 Consolidated List of Materials'? ✅2024-02-27 explained this.
  • What do the 3rd and 4th columns represent? Hypothesis: 4th column is notes - 3rd column I don't have a guess for!
• What is "Multiple why levels issue 36 Sep 2021"?

[elisapaka]

@rufuspollock I've sketched out a suggestion for what frontmatter properties to include here: https://github.com/life-itself/strategy/blob/main/Framework.md. Let me know your thoughts / feel free to edit directly.

Other updates: added several materials and renamed the images.

[elisapaka]

@rufuspollock I've added all the strategy materials that we had on the excalidraw. See here: https://github.com/life-itself/strategy/tree/main/materials

I saw that you've added one material called "Multiple why levels issue 36 Sep 2021". It has no url or any other identifying information, so I haven't done anything with that.

I also saw you added "Oct 2021 Consolidated List of Materials" - I've yet to go through this list.

Edit: spent 3 hours on this