A working repository for Life Itself's strategy — developing where we're going and why, and keeping an overview of the portfolio of activities that expresses that strategy.
Two main purposes:
- Develop strategy — working space for thinking through, drafting, and archiving Life Itself's strategy materials (SCQHs, theories of change, narratives, plans)
- Portfolio overview — a structured, living map of our initiatives and projects to support strategy work and give a clear picture of what we're doing
Interactive views of Life Itself initiatives and projects. Open any HTML file directly in a browser — no server needed.
- Force-Directed Map — drag, zoom, filter by type. Best for exploring connections.
- Horizontal Tree — collapsible dendrogram. Best for parent-child hierarchy.
- Indented Tree — file-explorer style list with status and tags.
The underlying data lives in initiatives/ and projects/. The index is rebuilt automatically on commit whenever those files change.
materials/ is an archive of pre-existing strategy documents — SCQHs, theories of change, narratives, plans and reviews going back to 2017. See materials/README.md for a full index.
Key working documents at root level:
A log of projects to work on strategy itself:
- Jun 2024–ongoing — Strategy review and planning (ongoing)
- Jan 2024 ⏸️ — Presenting our strategy (as is) — produced this KB and most materials; never reached evaluation and publication
- Appetite: 3d; Problem: lots of strategy materials not woven together, creating overwhelm; Solution: inventory, organise, create roadmap for publication
- Task: life-itself/community#1048 · Pitch: shaping doc
- Sep 2021 — Updated and consolidated Core SCQH / logic of existence / theory of change
- Task: life-itself/community#36
- Nov 2022 — LI v3 Strategy & Implementation
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See AGENTS.md for the full data model, frontmatter schema, file conventions, status values, and build instructions.