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  "generated": "2026-11-04T08:02:13.480Z",
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    {
      "title": "Who Decides",
      "slug": "who-decides",
      "week": 29,
      "date": "2026-11-02T00:00:00.000Z",
      "summary": "A late night for the east of the room.",
      "url": "https://ikigaicollective.org/lab-notes/who-decides",
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    {
      "title": "Done by Next Morning",
      "slug": "done-by-next-morning",
      "week": 28,
      "date": "2026-10-22T00:00:00.000Z",
      "summary": "A fuller room than usual, with two newcomers in it, so the founder began with a light recap for their benefit.",
      "url": "https://ikigaicollective.org/lab-notes/done-by-next-morning",
      "markdown": "https://ikigaicollective.org/lab-notes/done-by-next-morning.md",
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    {
      "title": "The Gap Is Trust",
      "slug": "the-gap-is-trust",
      "week": 27,
      "date": "2026-10-16T00:00:00.000Z",
      "summary": "Five of us, and a bot.",
      "url": "https://ikigaicollective.org/lab-notes/the-gap-is-trust",
      "markdown": "https://ikigaicollective.org/lab-notes/the-gap-is-trust.md",
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    {
      "title": "Tsundoku",
      "slug": "tsundoku",
      "week": 26,
      "date": "2026-10-09T00:00:00.000Z",
      "summary": "Five of us.",
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      "markdown": "https://ikigaicollective.org/lab-notes/tsundoku.md",
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      "source": "substack"
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    {
      "title": "Between Frozen and Gaseous",
      "slug": "between-frozen-and-gaseous",
      "week": 25,
      "date": "2026-10-02T00:00:00.000Z",
      "summary": "The founder joined from a car on the way from Dubai to Abu Dhabi, someone else driving, at the end of a full day of meetings.",
      "url": "https://ikigaicollective.org/lab-notes/between-frozen-and-gaseous",
      "markdown": "https://ikigaicollective.org/lab-notes/between-frozen-and-gaseous.md",
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    },
    {
      "title": "One Chopstick",
      "slug": "one-chopstick",
      "week": 24,
      "date": "2026-09-24T00:00:00.000Z",
      "summary": "The founder opened tired and said so. His wife had been away with her parents and was coming home with her sister, and had asked him to straighten the house a little.",
      "url": "https://ikigaicollective.org/lab-notes/one-chopstick",
      "markdown": "https://ikigaicollective.org/lab-notes/one-chopstick.md",
      "source": "repo"
    },
    {
      "title": "Ten Thousand Agents",
      "slug": "ten-thousand-agents",
      "week": 23,
      "date": "2026-09-17T00:00:00.000Z",
      "summary": "The founder opened by admitting he has lost an argument with the group about what to call these opening remarks.",
      "url": "https://ikigaicollective.org/lab-notes/ten-thousand-agents",
      "markdown": "https://ikigaicollective.org/lab-notes/ten-thousand-agents.md",
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    },
    {
      "title": "Gods of Sand",
      "slug": "gods-of-sand",
      "week": 22,
      "date": "2026-09-10T00:00:00.000Z",
      "summary": "The founder arrived relaxed and said why. There had been a storm that afternoon where he is working by the sea, and he was in the water when it broke.",
      "url": "https://ikigaicollective.org/lab-notes/gods-of-sand",
      "markdown": "https://ikigaicollective.org/lab-notes/gods-of-sand.md",
      "source": "repo"
    },
    {
      "title": "The Millicorn",
      "slug": "the-millicorn",
      "week": 21,
      "date": "2026-09-03T00:00:00.000Z",
      "summary": "Eight of us, the largest room the weekly hour has had, and for the first time a woman in it.",
      "url": "https://ikigaicollective.org/lab-notes/the-millicorn",
      "markdown": "https://ikigaicollective.org/lab-notes/the-millicorn.md",
      "source": "repo"
    },
    {
      "title": "Nobody Makes a Toaster",
      "slug": "nobody-makes-a-toaster",
      "week": 20,
      "date": "2026-08-27T00:00:00.000Z",
      "summary": "Six of us, and the weekly hour has moved back to Google Meet. The founder opened by pointing out who gains most from the change.",
      "url": "https://ikigaicollective.org/lab-notes/nobody-makes-a-toaster",
      "markdown": "https://ikigaicollective.org/lab-notes/nobody-makes-a-toaster.md",
      "source": "repo"
    },
    {
      "title": "Nothing New Under the Sun",
      "slug": "nothing-new-under-the-sun",
      "week": 19,
      "date": "2026-08-20T00:00:00.000Z",
      "summary": "Four of us and a guest, because one member asked whether anyone would mind if he brought a celebrity guest and then introduced his mother.",
      "url": "https://ikigaicollective.org/lab-notes/nothing-new-under-the-sun",
      "markdown": "https://ikigaicollective.org/lab-notes/nothing-new-under-the-sun.md",
      "source": "repo"
    },
    {
      "title": "Immodest and Humble",
      "slug": "immodest-and-humble",
      "week": 18,
      "date": "2026-08-13T00:00:00.000Z",
      "summary": "Three of us, which is one fewer than last week and exactly what August was forecast to deliver.",
      "url": "https://ikigaicollective.org/lab-notes/immodest-and-humble",
      "markdown": "https://ikigaicollective.org/lab-notes/immodest-and-humble.md",
      "source": "repo"
    },
    {
      "title": "Proof of Continuity",
      "slug": "proof-of-continuity",
      "week": 17,
      "date": "2026-08-06T00:00:00.000Z",
      "summary": "August empties Europe, and the room showed it. The founder opened by saying so plainly: the regulars are away for the next two or three weeks, and anyone who turns up in the meantime should...",
      "url": "https://ikigaicollective.org/lab-notes/proof-of-continuity",
      "markdown": "https://ikigaicollective.org/lab-notes/proof-of-continuity.md",
      "source": "repo"
    },
    {
      "title": "Hiding What You Know",
      "slug": "hiding-what-you-know",
      "week": 16,
      "date": "2026-07-30T00:00:00.000Z",
      "summary": "The founder was on the far side of the world at a conference, and the evening ran without him.",
      "url": "https://ikigaicollective.org/lab-notes/hiding-what-you-know",
      "markdown": "https://ikigaicollective.org/lab-notes/hiding-what-you-know.md",
      "source": "repo"
    },
    {
      "title": "Luminaries",
      "slug": "luminaries",
      "week": 15,
      "date": "2026-07-23T00:00:00.000Z",
      "summary": "The night began with comedy: the founder, packing for a dawn flight, discovered that his travel headset had quietly hijacked his audio, and spent ten minutes miming \"can you hear me\" at...",
      "url": "https://ikigaicollective.org/lab-notes/luminaries",
      "markdown": "https://ikigaicollective.org/lab-notes/luminaries.md",
      "source": "repo"
    },
    {
      "title": "The Baton Passes",
      "slug": "the-baton-passes",
      "week": 14,
      "date": "2026-07-16T00:00:00.000Z",
      "summary": "The founder opened the call from a street corner in another city, fresh out of a tech meetup, and then did something communities should practice early: he handed the evening to someone else...",
      "url": "https://ikigaicollective.org/lab-notes/the-baton-passes",
      "markdown": "https://ikigaicollective.org/lab-notes/the-baton-passes.md",
      "source": "repo"
    },
    {
      "title": "Who Walked In",
      "slug": "who-walked-in",
      "week": 13,
      "date": "2026-07-09T00:00:00.000Z",
      "summary": "The first Lab Night with the doors open. Twenty or so new members arrived on Discord within the week, and the call itself had first-time voices: an independent researcher freshly out of a...",
      "url": "https://ikigaicollective.org/lab-notes/who-walked-in",
      "markdown": "https://ikigaicollective.org/lab-notes/who-walked-in.md",
      "source": "repo"
    },
    {
      "title": "The Doors Are Open",
      "slug": "the-doors-are-open",
      "week": 12,
      "date": "2026-07-04T00:00:00.000Z",
      "summary": "For eleven consecutive weeks, a small group of people from four continents has met every Thursday evening for one hour, to show each other what we built that week. No hierarchy.",
      "url": "https://ikigaicollective.org/lab-notes/the-doors-are-open",
      "markdown": "https://ikigaicollective.org/lab-notes/the-doors-are-open.md",
      "source": "repo"
    },
    {
      "title": "Curiosity, Agency, Compassion",
      "slug": "curiosity-agency-compassion",
      "week": 11,
      "date": "2026-07-02T00:00:00.000Z",
      "summary": "Two firsts in one night: the first Lab Night held on our own Discord server instead of a video call, and the announcement of our settled founding values.",
      "url": "https://ikigaicollective.org/lab-notes/curiosity-agency-compassion",
      "markdown": "https://ikigaicollective.org/lab-notes/curiosity-agency-compassion.md",
      "source": "repo"
    },
    {
      "title": "Agency, Not Meaning",
      "slug": "agency-not-meaning",
      "week": 10,
      "date": "2026-06-25T00:00:00.000Z",
      "summary": "The week the values got their final shape, through a public change of mind.",
      "url": "https://ikigaicollective.org/lab-notes/agency-not-meaning",
      "markdown": "https://ikigaicollective.org/lab-notes/agency-not-meaning.md",
      "source": "repo"
    },
    {
      "title": "A Studio of Artists",
      "slug": "a-studio-of-artists",
      "week": 9,
      "date": "2026-06-18T00:00:00.000Z",
      "summary": "The clearest self-definition so far, delivered in the opening ritual: the Ikigai Collective is like a studio large enough for several artists to work side by side.",
      "url": "https://ikigaicollective.org/lab-notes/a-studio-of-artists",
      "markdown": "https://ikigaicollective.org/lab-notes/a-studio-of-artists.md",
      "source": "repo"
    },
    {
      "title": "First Draft of Our Values",
      "slug": "first-draft-of-our-values",
      "week": 8,
      "date": "2026-06-11T00:00:00.000Z",
      "summary": "The week the Collective started writing its charter. David's proposal: a small set of values, three at most, that embody what the Ikigai Collective is about, offered so that people who join...",
      "url": "https://ikigaicollective.org/lab-notes/first-draft-of-our-values",
      "markdown": "https://ikigaicollective.org/lab-notes/first-draft-of-our-values.md",
      "source": "repo"
    },
    {
      "title": "One Human, Five AIs",
      "slug": "one-human-five-ais",
      "week": 7,
      "date": "2026-06-04T00:00:00.000Z",
      "summary": "Nobody came. David held the session anyway, addressing the AI note-takers as the audience, and the recording became one of the most clarifying documents we have.",
      "url": "https://ikigaicollective.org/lab-notes/one-human-five-ais",
      "markdown": "https://ikigaicollective.org/lab-notes/one-human-five-ais.md",
      "source": "repo"
    },
    {
      "title": "An Evening in Italian",
      "slug": "misurare-noi-stessi",
      "week": 6,
      "date": "2026-05-28T00:00:00.000Z",
      "summary": "Everyone in the room happened to be an Italian speaker, so the Lab Night switched language mid-stream, and immediately generated a policy: presentations in the presenter's language where...",
      "url": "https://ikigaicollective.org/lab-notes/misurare-noi-stessi",
      "markdown": "https://ikigaicollective.org/lab-notes/misurare-noi-stessi.md",
      "source": "repo"
    },
    {
      "title": "What Is the Question We Should Be Asking?",
      "slug": "what-is-the-question",
      "week": 5,
      "date": "2026-05-21T00:00:00.000Z",
      "summary": "Three people showed up. We kept the hour anyway, and it turned into the deepest conversation so far: religion, philosophy, and how to think with machines.",
      "url": "https://ikigaicollective.org/lab-notes/what-is-the-question",
      "markdown": "https://ikigaicollective.org/lab-notes/what-is-the-question.md",
      "source": "repo"
    },
    {
      "title": "The Freedom and the Burden",
      "slug": "the-freedom-and-the-burden",
      "week": 4,
      "date": "2026-05-14T00:00:00.000Z",
      "summary": "The fullest statement yet of why we exist, delivered as the opening ritual that now starts every Lab Night; David repeats the purpose each week, going one level deeper each time.",
      "url": "https://ikigaicollective.org/lab-notes/the-freedom-and-the-burden",
      "markdown": "https://ikigaicollective.org/lab-notes/the-freedom-and-the-burden.md",
      "source": "repo"
    },
    {
      "title": "The Lab Is the Work",
      "slug": "the-lab-is-the-work",
      "week": 3,
      "date": "2026-05-06T00:00:00.000Z",
      "summary": "Lab Night went nomadic: David hosted from Bucharest, and explicitly licensed the group to continue without him whenever needed.",
      "url": "https://ikigaicollective.org/lab-notes/the-lab-is-the-work",
      "markdown": "https://ikigaicollective.org/lab-notes/the-lab-is-the-work.md",
      "source": "repo"
    },
    {
      "title": "Start From What You Are Good At",
      "slug": "start-from-what-you-are-good-at",
      "week": 2,
      "date": "2026-04-29T00:00:00.000Z",
      "summary": "Week two, and the ritual codified itself: each of us tells what we did in the past week, presenting is never mandatory, and the same project week after week is perfectly fine.",
      "url": "https://ikigaicollective.org/lab-notes/start-from-what-you-are-good-at",
      "markdown": "https://ikigaicollective.org/lab-notes/start-from-what-you-are-good-at.md",
      "source": "repo"
    },
    {
      "title": "A Container for Experiments",
      "slug": "a-container-for-experiments",
      "week": 1,
      "date": "2026-04-22T00:00:00.000Z",
      "summary": "Our first Lab Night, held on World Earth Day: five humans across four time zones, and an equal number of AI note-takers.",
      "url": "https://ikigaicollective.org/lab-notes/a-container-for-experiments",
      "markdown": "https://ikigaicollective.org/lab-notes/a-container-for-experiments.md",
      "source": "repo"
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