A first-ninety-days roadmap for anyone running the treaty campaign with a nonprofit, a website with the voting widget, and the book. Assumes no money, no staff, and no time. Most of the work fits in four focused hours a day.
Think by Numbers runs cost-benefit analyses for a species that spends $604 on weapons for every $1 on clinical trials. We suspect a math error.
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Your orientation film. 1950s educational film style, 3 minutes, producible with AI for the budget of a medium wedding.
A systematic checklist for repurposing the book and its arguments into platform-native formats across Medium, Substack, LinkedIn, X, Bluesky, Reddit, Hacker News, and short-form video. The book exists. The job left is putting it in front of humans on the channels they already visit.
A public accountability primitive. Named individuals and institutions are assigned specific tasks (sign the treaty, embed the widget, fund the prize pool). A live death-counter runs next to every unfulfilled task. Anonymous inaction becomes named inaction, priced in humans per day.
One day a year, every human votes to make Earth 1% less irrational. The treaty percentage ratchets up another percent, and politicians who refused to sign become named entries on a public list.
Every commissioner is appointed President of Earth Optimization Services on camera, given two metrics, and asked what they would do first. Each one inaugurates at least two successors. A binary tree reaches 8 billion in 33 generations.
Every guest is appointed President of Earth Optimization Services and asked how to optimize Earth using two metrics. Each one inaugurates at least two successors. Production guide: docs/funniest-show-production.md
The formal instrument of your appointment as President and Chief Executive Officer of Earth Optimization Services. Yours to print and frame. No President of the United States has ever received one.
The ceremony script for commissioning a new President of Earth Optimization Services. Two questions, one commission, under two minutes.
Parameter definitions, formulas, uncertainty ranges, and data sources.