From e97947bdb9c087f542d736272fc38cf99c234d95 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Erin Spencer Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2026 22:27:30 -0700 Subject: [PATCH 1/7] feat(about): add organization identity record --- src/_data/organization.json | 72 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 72 insertions(+) create mode 100644 src/_data/organization.json diff --git a/src/_data/organization.json b/src/_data/organization.json new file mode 100644 index 0000000..dfa2dd5 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/_data/organization.json @@ -0,0 +1,72 @@ +{ + "schema": "interdependentway.public-organization/1.0.0", + "usage": "Render visible organization facts and machine-readable JSON-LD from this record. Keep The Interdependency LLC, The Interdependent Way, the website, and Erin Spencer as distinct identities. Do not infer omitted founding, headquarters, client, pricing, or contract facts.", + "name": "The Interdependency LLC", + "alternate_name": "The Interdependency", + "type": "Limited liability company; research, software, and publishing organization", + "value_proposition": "The Interdependency LLC is a research, software, and publishing organization that develops The Interdependent Way and related technical systems for readers, researchers, developers, and collaborators working with interdependent social and computational structures.", + "founder": { + "name": "Erin Spencer", + "public_id": "https://interdependentway.org/eai/aicontext.md#erin-spencer", + "about_url": "https://interdependentway.org/about-me/", + "github": "https://github.com/erinepshovel-code" + }, + "project": { + "name": "The Interdependent Way", + "kind": "doctrine and public knowledge system", + "public_surface": "https://interdependentway.org/", + "canonical_source": "https://github.com/wayseer00/main/blob/main/canon/INTERDEPENDENT_WAY.txt" + }, + "website": "https://interdependentway.org", + "github": "https://github.com/The-Interdependency", + "facts": { + "founded": "hmmm — no publicly verified founding date is encoded here.", + "headquarters": "hmmm — no publicly verified headquarters is encoded here.", + "core_offering": "The Interdependent Way; provenance-bearing public research and publication; software and technical experiments across independently owned project repositories.", + "pricing": "No organization-wide price list is published. Any commercial surface must state its own current price and scope.", + "contract_terms": "No organization-wide standard contract terms are published. Project-specific terms govern only where they are explicitly stated.", + "services": "No universal service catalog is claimed. Public work includes doctrine, research, software, publication, and project-specific technical experiments.", + "communication": "Public engineering communication uses GitHub repositories and issues. No organization-wide response-time or turnaround SLA is published.", + "notable_clients": "None claimed in this public identity record.", + "customers_served": "No organization-wide customer count is claimed.", + "projects_delivered": "No organization-wide delivery count is claimed; the Projects surface reports current public repository work instead.", + "competitors": "No canonical competitor set is maintained." + }, + "provenance": { + "status": "operator-supplied identity joined to repository-backed public project facts", + "repository_sources": [ + ".interdependency/project.yml", + "README.md", + "src/_data/erin.public-biography.json" + ] + }, + "json_ld": { + "@context": "https://schema.org", + "@type": "Organization", + "@id": "https://interdependentway.org/about/#the-interdependency", + "name": "The Interdependency LLC", + "alternateName": "The Interdependency", + "url": "https://interdependentway.org/", + "description": "The Interdependency LLC is a research, software, and publishing organization that develops The Interdependent Way and related technical systems for readers, researchers, developers, and collaborators working with interdependent social and computational structures.", + "founder": { + "@type": "Person", + "@id": "https://interdependentway.org/eai/aicontext.md#erin-spencer", + "name": "Erin Spencer", + "url": "https://interdependentway.org/about-me/" + }, + "sameAs": [ + "https://github.com/The-Interdependency" + ], + "knowsAbout": [ + "The Interdependent Way", + "UCNS", + "EDCM", + "MSDMD", + "A0" + ] + }, + "hmmm": [ + "Exact LLC founding date remains unresolved in the public repository record.", + "A headquarters claim is intentionally absent until a verified organization-level source owns it." + ] +} From 2b138c6575ad340bce189f3a7db750af7d438d58 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Erin Spencer Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2026 22:27:34 -0700 Subject: [PATCH 2/7] feat(about): separate organization identity from founder --- src/about/index.njk | 316 ++++++++++++++++++++------------------------ 1 file changed, 141 insertions(+), 175 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/about/index.njk b/src/about/index.njk index 1668764..fba2ff9 100644 --- a/src/about/index.njk +++ b/src/about/index.njk @@ -1,178 +1,144 @@ --- layout: layouts/base.njk -title: Erin Spencer — About + Spend → Results +title: About The Interdependency +description: The public identity record for The Interdependency LLC, its relationship to The Interdependent Way, its founder, operating method, key facts, and machine-readable organization data. --- - - -
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Freelance houseless social activist, disabled Marine Corps veteran, writer of the Articles of Survival, builder and maintainer of The Hovel in West Berkeley, and creator of The Interdependent Way: work organized around survival, harm reduction, community, evidence, and systems that do not pretend anyone thrives alone.

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Biography

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Survival as practice

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Raised in East Texas and later serving in the U.S. Marine Corps, Erin became a long-time resident of the Eighth and Harrison encampment in Berkeley. The work there has included community cleanup, public comment, civil disobedience, legal challenges to encampment sweeps, and maintaining space for people arriving with nowhere else to settle.

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The Hovel

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The Hovel was built and maintained at the encampment as practical shelter and community infrastructure. Public reporting documents it as a place intended to make room for people who arrive needing somewhere to be, rather than treating survival as an individual failure.

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Articles of Survival

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The Articles of Survival begin with a compact operating constraint: “Do no harm.” They extend lived experience into a written framework for survival, relationship, responsibility, and mutual dependence.

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The Interdependent Way

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The Interdependency LLC turns the same premise into research and technical experiments: spend on compute and tools, preserve evidence, expose uncertainty, and publish what the work actually produces instead of substituting claims for results.

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Public profile sources: Street Spirit on The Hovel · Street Spirit interview and Articles of Survival.

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2026 operating ledger: income, compute, subscriptions

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Numbers below are deliberately separated into recurring personal inflow, LLC/business revenue, observed spend, and unresolved liabilities. A bank transaction is not silently reclassified as revenue, and a suspension notice is not silently converted into an amount owed.

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Expected recurring income

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$552.47 / month

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Source: VA Benefits, observed as a recurring deposit. Conditional annualized baseline if unchanged: $6,629.64. This is personal inflow, not LLC revenue; the tax character of the specific benefit is not inferred from the bank label.

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New LLC revenue path

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Variable / customer-chosen

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Source: Stripe “Spend → Results Access.” One-time customers choose the amount. A prior successful Stripe payment exists, but there is not yet enough evidence to forecast recurring sales honestly.

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Verified 2026 compute/tool spend

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California calendar-year framing, as of August 16, 2026. Exact entity formation date and federal tax classification remain unresolved, so conditional duties stay conditional.

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$20. Due within 90 days of initial registration and every two years thereafter. The exact next due window depends on the LLC’s California formation/registration date.

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Fourth estimated-tax installment if required.

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California Form 568 is generally part of the LLC filing path. Federal forms depend on whether the LLC is a disregarded single-member LLC, partnership, S corporation, C corporation, or has another valid election. Exact forms and income-tax amount: hmmm until classification and net taxable business income are verified.

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Purchase access to the results

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Stripe-hosted checkout is live. The site does not collect card data. Choose the amount, complete payment with Stripe, and keep the receipt as the access credential.

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About The Interdependency

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What The Interdependency does

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Publishes The Interdependent Way

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The website provides a public entrance to The Interdependent Way while preserving the canonical source identity outside this repository. Companion readings, research, and implementations remain distinguishable from the source text rather than silently becoming canon.

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Builds and tests technical systems

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The organization develops public software, mathematical and measurement work, agent tooling, metadata systems, and technical experiments across independently owned repositories. Project status stays local to the repository that owns the claim.

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Connects work without collapsing ownership

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What makes The Interdependency different

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Source authority stays with the source

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Distributed work is displayed with its owning repository, path, and source identity. Publication does not transfer authority merely because related material appears on one website.

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Evidence stays attached to claims

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Where the publishing system can verify exact source identity, it records commits, blobs, digests, status, and fallback state. A generated page is therefore a view of evidence, not a substitute for it.

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Unknown stays visible

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Human pages prioritize readable navigation; machine readers can use the published AI context, JSON-LD, sitemap, and llms.txt. These surfaces improve retrieval and grounding without claiming that the website directly trains external models.

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Core content remains readable without JavaScript, while search, maps, and other interaction progressively enhance it. Release checks test generated routes, links, accessibility, and publication identity before deployment.

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Who uses The Interdependency

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The team behind The Interdependency

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Erin Spencer

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Erin Spencer is the founder of The Interdependency LLC and the architect of The Interdependent Way. The separate About me page preserves Erin’s founder-authored narrative; the machine-readable biography keeps the person identity distinct from the organization.

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AI-assisted construction and review

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The work uses AI systems as implementation, research, and review tools with attribution and provenance where their output becomes public. The By the builder journal keeps AI-authored observations separate from Erin’s voice and from source canon.

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Origin

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How The Interdependency works

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Public work starts at its owning source

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Repositories own their code, claims, status, documentation, and correction path. This site retrieves and presents that work, with provenance, through Projects, the distributed textbook, research pages, and public artifacts.

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Communication is project-specific

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GitHub repositories and issues are the primary public engineering channel. The organization publishes no general response-time or turnaround SLA; a project-specific commitment applies only where that project explicitly states one.

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Frequently asked questions

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What is The Interdependency LLC?

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The Interdependency LLC is the organization behind a constellation of research, software, publishing, and technical experiments. Its public work includes The Interdependent Way and the repositories surfaced through this site.

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Is The Interdependency the same as The Interdependent Way?

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Who is Erin Spencer?

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Erin Spencer is the founder of The Interdependency LLC and architect of The Interdependent Way. The public biography and About me page contain the person-level context that does not belong in the organization record.

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Only where a current project or commercial surface explicitly offers that transaction. This page does not create a general offer, price list, turnaround promise, or contract by implication.

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From e478eccbdaa3b1a810873c79a6c5e431f30d4358 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Erin Spencer Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2026 22:27:37 -0700 Subject: [PATCH 3/7] feat(about): expose organization about route --- src/_includes/components/site-footer.njk | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/src/_includes/components/site-footer.njk b/src/_includes/components/site-footer.njk index 9140268..37841a9 100644 --- a/src/_includes/components/site-footer.njk +++ b/src/_includes/components/site-footer.njk @@ -2,6 +2,7 @@