Life Itself Strategy

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:

1. Develop strategy — working space for thinking through, drafting, and archiving Life Itself's strategy materials (SCQHs, theories of change, narratives, plans)
2. 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

Portfolio of Initiatives & Projects

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.

Strategy Materials

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:

• Strategy v3 consolidated
• Strategy v2 consolidated
• Framework for strategy and strategy materials

Overview of existing materials

History of strategy work

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: https://github.com/life-itself/community/issues/1048 · Pitch: shaping doc
• Sep 2021 — Updated and consolidated Core SCQH / logic of existence / theory of change
  • Task: https://github.com/life-itself/community/issues/36
• Nov 2022 — LI v3 Strategy & Implementation [uber][epic]
  • Task: https://github.com/life-itself/community/issues/196

Working on this repo

See AGENTS.md for the full data model, frontmatter schema, file conventions, status values, and build instructions.