You've probably felt this:
The job titles don't fit. The career paths feel like prisons. The identities people adopt—"founder," "creator," "leader"—feel like performances you're supposed to commit to forever.
Meanwhile, you can see why people play the games they're playing. You understand their positions. You can model their perspectives. Sometimes you can see the whole system so clearly that you don't know where you belong in it.
This isn't confusion. It's clarity that looks like confusion to everyone else.
The internet promised us fluid identity.
Instead we got identity capture.
Every platform wants you to pick a lane. Pick an audience. Pick a niche. Build a personal brand and optimize it forever.
But what if you're not one thing? What if the static identity everyone's demanding is exactly what's stopping you from coordinating with the people who actually matter?
And what if the window to build the alternative is closing faster than you think?
The Window Is Closing
Right now, there's chaos.
AI is dissolving job categories. Remote work fractured "office culture." The creator economy proved you can't monetize attention without selling your soul. Web3 promised coordination without institutions and delivered speculation instead.
Everyone's searching for new models. New ways to work. New ways to build. New ways to coordinate.
The next 12-24 months will determine what gets built.
The people who understand why the old coordination infrastructure is broken will build the new one.
The people who are still trying to "find their niche" in the old system will wake up in five years wondering why nothing works anymore.
The Problem Isn't You
Jobs: Pretend roles are permanent identities. Switching feels like failure.
Freelancing: Every engagement has different rules. Trust is impossible to build.
Social Media: You are your metrics. There's no exit that isn't failure.
Networks: Require persistent identity. If you change, you're flaky.
None of these work for people who can see clearly enough to know that identity should be temporary, contextual, and role-based—not fixed, permanent, and all-consuming.
You're not broken. The coordination infrastructure is.
And the people building the replacement are moving fast.
What If Games Had Roles Instead of Identities?
Imagine:
You join a game. The game has defined roles. You take a role. You play it well for a season. The season ends. You exit cleanly. Your performance is recorded. You move to the next game.
No permanent identity required.
Just demonstrated capability in specific contexts.
Your reputation becomes: "They play the strategist role well in network games" or "They're excellent at the guide role in transformation games."
Not: "This is who they ARE."
This is how coordination worked before the internet tried to freeze everyone in place.
It's how sports work. How theater works. How healthy projects work.
The game provides:
- Roles (clear expectations for behavior)
- Rules (shared understanding of how to play)
- Seasons (bounded time commitment)
- Outcomes (observable results, not claimed expertise)
- Clean exits (no shame in leaving when the season ends)
You're Not Lost. You're Between Games.
The feeling you have—that you don't fit anywhere—isn't because you're confused about who you are.
It's because you need infrastructure that doesn't exist yet.
Infrastructure for people who:
- Can see multiple valid perspectives simultaneously
- Understand systems well enough to know fixed positions are traps
- Need to move between contexts without accumulating identity debt
- Want to coordinate deeply without committing permanently
- Have skills that don't fit neat categories
You're waiting for Internet 2.0—where ego doesn't dominate and coordination does.
Where identity is what you do in a specific game, not what you claim to be forever.
Where trust builds through observable performance, not through frozen personal brands.
Where flickering between games is normal, expected, healthy.
The Six Games Framework
There are only six games that matter for transformation:
- G1 - Identity/Canon: Curating who matters and what counts
- G2 - Idea Mining: Extracting applicable insights from the territory
- G3 - Model Building: Understanding how things actually work
- G4 - Performance/Coaching: Improving measurable capabilities
- G5 - Meaning/Sensemaking: Creating coherence from change
- G6 - Network/Coordination: Connecting the right people
Most people play all six badly because they're forced to do it from a single frozen identity.
You could play each one well—if you could take the right role in the right game at the right time.
This 5-Day Course Will Show You How
Five days. One framework. Real work.
This isn't "consume content and feel good." This is "understand the game and prove you can play."
Each day includes:
- Core concept (10-15 min read)
- Deep dive (30-45 min extended reading)
- Exercise (30-60 min applied work)
Complete all five exercises and submit them → Get 50% off the 4-week intensive workshop ($500 value)
Why proof-of-work? Because this is how the game is structured for a reason.
The people who will build Internet 2.0 aren't passive consumers. They're people who can see a structure, understand it, and demonstrate capability within it.
If you can't complete five exercises in five days, you're not ready to build coordination infrastructure for others.
Day 1: The Trap of Static Identity
Why high clarity looks like confusion to everyone else
→ Extended reading: The validation distance problem
→ Exercise: Map your identity contradictions
Day 2: Games Create Coordination
How temporary roles enable deeper trust than permanent brands
→ Extended reading: Observable games vs. algorithmic capture
→ Exercise: Audit the games you're currently playing
Day 3: The Six Games Framework
Every transformation happens through one of six game types
→ Extended reading: G1-G6 detailed breakdown
→ Exercise: Score yourself across all six games
Day 4: Roles, Seasons, and Clean Exits
The infrastructure that makes flickering functional
→ Extended reading: Why seasons solve the commitment problem
→ Exercise: Design a game with roles you'd actually play
Day 5: Building Internet 2.0
Your role in creating coordination infrastructure
→ Extended reading: From edges to federations
→ Exercise: Define your first season
Timeline:
- Days 1-5: Daily emails with exercises
- Day 6-7: Submit completed exercises
- Day 8: Workshop invitation (50% off if you submitted all five)
The workshop: 4 weeks, live cohort, building actual games with real stakes
This Is For You If:
- You can see everyone else's position clearly but can't find your own
- You've tried "finding your niche" and it felt like a prison
- You understand why people believe contradictory things
- You're ready to build instead of just understanding
- You can commit to 5 days of real work, not passive consumption
- You want to help create the coordination infrastructure for what comes next
- You know the window is closing and you need to move now
This Is NOT For You If:
- You want someone to tell you what your permanent identity should be
- You're looking for tactics to optimize your personal brand
- You can't dedicate 1-2 hours per day for five days
- You need everything explained three times before you act
- You're satisfied with how coordination works now
- You think the problem is you, not the infrastructure
- You want to "think about it" for a few months
What You'll Get
5 daily emails that progressively build understanding:
- Day 1: Why clarity looks like confusion
- Day 2: How games create real coordination
- Day 3: The Six Games framework
- Day 4: Roles, seasons, and infrastructure
- Day 5: Your role in building what's next
Each email includes:
- Core concept (delivered to your inbox)
- Deep dive link (extended reading, 30-45 min)
- Applied exercise (30-60 min of real work)
Complete all 5 exercises:
→ Submit within 7 days
→ Get 50% off the 4-week workshop ($500 value)
→ Join the cohort building actual coordination infrastructure
The workshop (4 weeks, live):
- Design real games with observable outcomes
- Build role-based coordination systems
- Create your first season with real stakes
- Join others building Internet 2.0
This isn't theory. This is building.
The Next Cohort Starts March 3rd
You have a choice:
Wait and watch while others build the coordination infrastructure for the future.
Or commit five days and prove you can play.
The course is free. The work is real. The window is closing.
If you complete the exercises, you'll get 50% off the workshop.
If you don't, you weren't ready anyway.
No personal brand required.
No permanent commitment demanded.
Just five days to prove you understand the game.
Start Day 1 now. Free. 5 days. Unsubscribe anytime.
The people who will build Internet 2.0 are already moving.
The only question is whether you're one of them.
From Leo Guinan
Hitchhiker to the Future
Building MetaSPN - Observable games for transformation
FAQ
- Q: Is this just another personality framework?
- No. The Six Games aren't personality types. They're role categories in different coordination contexts. You'll learn to play multiple games, not get categorized into one.
- Q: Why only 5 days?
- Because the people who need this don't have time to waste. Either you can commit to understanding the framework in five days or you can't. If you can't, this isn't for you yet.
- Q: What if I can't complete all the exercises?
- Then you don't get the workshop discount. Simple. This is proof-of-work by design. The people building coordination infrastructure don't need hand-holding.
- Q: How much time will this actually take?
- 1-2 hours per day for five days. If you can't carve out 5-10 hours in a week for something this important, you're not serious about building what comes next.
- Q: What's the workshop?
- 4 weeks, live cohort. You'll design actual games, build role-based systems, and run your first season with real stakes. Not theory—building.
- Q: Is the email course free?
- Yes. The framework needs to spread. The workshop has a cost because real coordination requires real commitment.
- Q: What if I'm not ready to build "Internet 2.0"?
- Then don't take the course. This is for people who are ready to move now, not people who want to "think about it."