The Field Guide: How to Use This Site

This website is the gift.

There’s no paywall, no subscription, no hidden catch.
What you’re reading is the course — a living, evolving self-study lab you can explore at your own pace. Everything here was built to help you experiment with new ways of seeing, learning, and creating alongside Algorithmic Intelligence.

How to Navigate the Living Lab

1. Watch. Start with the short videos. They’re orientation beacons — context for what you’re seeing and why it matters.

2. Read. Each page offers field notes: ideas, reflections, and real examples of Human + Algorithmic collaboration in motion.

3. Reflect. Pause to notice what lands. The goal isn’t to agree or disagree — it’s to observe your own curiosity as data.

4. Glean. When something sparks, follow it. Copy, remix, write back. Gleaning is our practice of slowing down to harvest insight — turning scattered thoughts into clarity.

5. Join. If you want to go deeper, join our daily Clubhouse conversation at High Noon, Mountain West or subscribe to the weekly Field Notes dispatch.

You can’t do this wrong.
This isn’t about mastery; it’s about relationship — with your own intelligence, your tools, and the living world around you.

Why It Matters

The Living Lab isn’t just a collection of ideas — it’s a prototype for a different kind of education:
learning that is open-source, interdisciplinary, and rooted in curiosity rather than certification.

We believe knowledge should circulate like light — free to travel, illuminate, and be reflected in many forms

START with FOUNDATIONS

Discover your beginning.
Join a Group Mixer for the AI-Curious, REVAMP your ABOUT PAGE, and start your Field Notes — a living, evolving record that helps build your AI’s knowledge base while reflecting your personal growth in real time.

Then, test-drive your Self-Discovery Quest with the Gameboard/Map and learn how to glean with purpose and permission.

All of these experiences are available to both individuals and groups — a great way to meet new people and practice the gleaning process together in real time.
🪶 Every big story starts small.

TAKE THE STAGE as a GUIDE

Share what you know.
If you’re an educator, creator, or expert with a body of work that deserves a bigger stage — this is where you step into the light.
Learn to translate your expertise into teachable formats, design your first 5-Week Course, and host your sessions through participating libraries or online.

RemarkableU provides the tools, templates, and AI-assisted systems to help you scale your wisdom without burning out.
🎙️ The next generation is listening — your story is their spark.

BECOME A BENEFACTOR

Fuel the movement.
Behind every lighthouse is a keeper — someone who chooses to invest in the light.
Benefactors make the work possible: funding library programs, scholarships, and creative infrastructure that support Guides, Learners, and Community Collaborations across rural and underserved regions.

Sponsorships begin at $5,000 and build legacies that live beyond a single donation.
💛 Your contribution keeps the light steady — in storm and silence alike.

GLEAN + LEARN on the FLY

Follow your curiosity.
Jump into the River of ideas — explore our blog, dispatches, and recorded dialogues.
You’ll find real examples of how AI and human intelligence co-create in the wild, alongside free tools, templates, and permission-to-practice exercises.

Learn by doing, remix what you find, and leave the trail brighter for the next traveler.
💫 Gleaning is learning in motion.

JOIN the CIRCLE of STEWARDS & CHAMPIONS

Fuel what you love. Help the light reach farther.

This circle gathers those who see the value of investing in both human potential and community infrastructure.
Stewards tend the flame. Champions carry it forward. And soon, through the power of the Commons, the crowd will help keep it shining bright.

🌟 Sponsors — The Champions of Access
Support a library, event, or learning lab.
Your name or business will be celebrated in our Playbill and on-site signage, and you’ll be invited to our Library-as-Lighthouse Gala, an evening honoring creativity, civic imagination, and collective impact.

💛 Patrons — The Champions of Creativity
Champion a Guide, learner, or creative project that speaks to your heart.
Your gift helps new voices take the stage and ensures their work reaches those who most need the light.

🌅 Benefactors — The Stewards of Legacy
Invest in the foundation — the systems and tools that sustain the movement.
You’ll be recognized on the Foundational Gameboard/Map and invited to Double-Base Business Roundtables, private gatherings exploring regenerative models that win by both ethical and economic standards.

🌾 The Commons — The Power of the Many (Coming Soon)
Micro-donations. Collective challenges. Local crowdfunds.
When the Circle meets the Crowd, we create something larger than charity — a living demonstration of shared abundance.
Together, we’ll show how even the smallest acts of contribution can light the largest networks of care.

🕯️ Stewards, Champions, and the Commons form the Circle Whole — those who tend the light, carry it forward, and keep it shared.
Every spark you give becomes a signal fire for someone else to find their way home.