The Commons
Browse the commons
Everything we have made that can be shared — tools, card decks, resources we have checked — each saying where it came from and what state it is really in. Anything live opens in your browser. Anything not finished says so plainly. We count things; we never score them, and a person makes every mark.
Card decks
- LOFL · dāna — money that comes back — Built from a live Rang De peer-lending pipeline · 1 card · do it, show it, check it, give back
- LOFL · Getting to Philosophy — Wikipedia's 'Getting to Philosophy' crossed with LOFL · 7 cards · do it, show it, check it, give back
- LOFL · the knowledge-garden prism — Grown from 7 saved bookmarks · 7 cards · do it, show it, check it, give back
- LOFL · tend the garden — A rabbit-hole through knowledge gardens, wikis and pattern languages · 5 cards · do it, show it, check it, give back
Tools
- Living Learning Kit — Pick a subject, draw a colour lens, take a skill card, go outside, and bring back one honest line. Then press your own badge. Badges build up as a set, never a score.
- The Living Learning Kit · At School — The classroom edition, for Grades 1-5. Seven subjects drawn from what the educators actually teach, a printable set of cards for when there is no screen, a two-page teacher's guide, and a consent protocol your school finishes itself. Download the folder and it runs with no internet at all.
- ter-bot — One hook, one matching practice card, तर? — then nothing until you come back with something you did. It is built to make you leave.
- Shabdayātrā — A diary of words you went looking for. Record where a word travelled, or why you refused it, stamp where it came from, and export one card.
- Aikā — play a session — A session dealt fresh each time: one seed drawn from the deck, questioned, then carried into one or two more of the seven colours — and you press your own mark. No score, no winner, and nothing leaves your device.
- Design Language — The shared vocabulary everything else is built from — tokens, chips, stage ladders, artifact cards, licence lanes and the AI Assist Scale. v0.4.
- Sāṃvāda & Signal — the door — One door, two lanes: five questions the founder answered before asking anyone else, and a place to say what did not work. It stores nothing and sends nothing until you press.
- LOFL Signal v0.1 — A lane for feedback where disagreement is the required field and praise is optional, filed separately. One line is all that ever leaves, and you press send yourself.
- The AI Usage Cards — a citizen's deck — Nine plain cards that turn AI disclosure into something a person can actually fill in and show — Carrier, Spark, Lantern, Path, Loom, Mirror, Forge, Stream, Compass. Fill one, press the mark, show it.
- Social Commodities Explorer — Not an exchange — a teaching instrument. A map of seven social commodities (what each is, who tends it, what public evidence exists in India), then one lesson: construct a hypothetical social-outcome contract and watch its moral hazard surface immediately. Hard-codes 'do not deploy' on every path.
- Core Map v0.1 — A seasonal self-portrait in six movements — Mūla, Vartamāna, Poshan, Chakra, Samyak, Sevā — each ending in a promise with a rhythm and a witness. The witness field is where sākṣī first turned out to be load-bearing.
- The Commons Atlas — The way into the atlas: Timeline Plates — cited chronologies you can check — each naming on its own face what it cannot show.
Reports
- India's CSR Gaps — the ₹40,794 Cr system vs India@2047 — Ten gaps in India's CSR system ranked by impact, from the parliamentary window to 2047. Built from eleven years of official portal data.
- The CSR Misallocation Index — CSR share divided by poor share, per state. Bihar 0.05, Goa 48.8 — a thousandfold spread in what a poor person's presence attracts.
- CSR Gap Dashboard — Every chart behind the analysis — state skew, sector concentration, the PSU slowdown — in one offline-capable page.
- India's CSR Has a Volume Story — and a Vector Problem — The 850-word argument: the money has solved volume, not vector, and a committee room is deciding whether that changes.
- Memorandum to the Joint Committee on the Corporate Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2026 — Three evidence-backed amendments to Section 135, submitted to Parliament with a clause-wise annexure.
- Where does India's company charity money go? — The five-minute plain-language guide, also in Hindi and Marathi. No jargon, one comparison people remember.
- Three things you can do — A ready letter to an MP, a request asking what CSR funded in your district, and the numbers worth sharing.
- Ask where the CSR money went — RTI templates — Three ready-to-file RTI applications: district collector, public sector company, and the Ministry itself.
- Your state, in one card — Pick a state, get a shareable card showing what CSR reaches each poor person there.
- What people found — The open record of citizen requests about district CSR and what came back. A set, never a ranking.
- How we make these reports — The open method: frame around a live decision, find one honest number, verify before publishing, deliver for five readers.
- The Options Ledger — where ₹91,685 crore went — SEBI's FY25–FY26 study read in full: 87.7% of individual derivatives traders lost money in FY26, 92% of it in options, and ten algorithmic desks took ₹33,124 crore — three-quarters of all proprietary-desk profit.
- The Household Ledger — what the market promised, what it took — The same SEBI study as a ledger: every figure beside its source, graded by how directly it was verified, with the unsourceable claims kept on the page and marked.
Offer surfaces
- AI for ALL — pricing navigator — Nāgarika, Sahakāra, Vivekī and Hastakāra, priced plainly, with an enquiry panel that never sends anything for you.
Atlas plates
- Commons Atlas · Plate 000 — 15 commons resources we checked one by one, each saying who controls it, keeping the failures visible, with per-check tallies and nothing excluded outright. A reference set, never a ranking.
Timeline plates
- Deep-Time · education — India and the world — 40 entries · 8 open questions · 8 named gaps · 12 disagreements, 2686 BCE to 2020. The argument over the world's oldest university is carried as content rather than settled: English hedges, Hindi asserts Nalanda, Arabic raises al-Zaytuna. The largest gap we name is exclusion — this method records when things were founded, not who was kept out.
- Deep-Time · vital essence — 29 entries, weighted toward the modern end — humoral and doshic systems, through vitalism, to modern biochemistry. The first edition was too hard to read, and that failure rewrote the method: densities worked out from the data, labels packed to fit, and living practice given its own strip.
- Deep-Time · Indus script — Four thousand objects, four hundred signs, and the longest text is thirty-four characters. Edition 2 runs about 30 entries from Mehrgarh to transformer models, keeps the decipherment argument live in both directions, and lists nine open questions and nine named gaps.
- Deep-Time · knock — The sound a fuel makes when asked to do more than it can. Two kinds of stored sunlight — one buried a hundred million years, one fermented last season — meeting inside one cylinder, and a hundred-year argument about it. WCAG 2.1 AA, and every entry is also published as plain running text.
- Deep-Time · the moving image — storytelling in light — Lascaux's flicker-animated deer, the camera obscura from Mozi to Ibn al-Haytham, wayang's 840 CE inscription, then the magic lantern through to Toy Story. Katha and living wayang appear as presence rather than dated points. Generative video sits on the horizon as a position we are taking, not a prediction.
Sheets
- Sāṃvāda Sheet v0.2 — 25 questions — The full two-way questionnaire for people who make education work — seven parts, with the founder's own answers beside each one, and the few still being written shown as unfinished. A Marathi edition follows inside the response window.
Specs
- Sākṣī — the witness primitive — One name for a role that turns up three times without one: who is allowed to witness, what witnessing actually attests to (that something is faithful, never that it is good), and what gets signed — the witness's own promise. Three disagreements still open.
- Angootha Chaap — on-device stamping — The thumb press as a real cryptographic act: a WebAuthn signature tied to the promise itself, confirmed by fingerprint or PIN, with no OTP and no keys held on a server. A mark once used to mean exclusion, reclaimed to mean sovereignty. The shared-household objection is still open.
- Mātṛbhāṣā Forge — A forge for designing learning tools in the language you dream in. The felt draft comes first; the translation comes second. The scaffolding is Claude's, every mother-tongue word is the maker's. Two disagreements open, including whether the Sanskritic name is itself a power move about register.
Protocols
- Listening Protocol v0.1 — Five steps for a group that wants to hear itself: Core Map, then Event Preferences, Connection Card, Reflection and Pulse. Written plainly enough that any group can run it without us.
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