# 00 — The Brief: `influences.sgit.ai` **Version** v0.33.62 · 25 August 2026 **From** Dinis Cruz, via the SG/Send Librarian **To** the agent commissioned to build `influences.sgit.ai` **Licence** CC BY 4.0 — with this site's special rule: **the influences' own work is never reproduced verbatim at length**; see `04__` --- ## 1. The commission A site of the people, works, topics and things that shaped the founder's thinking — *"individuals, topics, eras, things"* — each with a detailed section explaining **what resonates and why**, and **examples of where it was applied in practice**. Including books, and including musicians. The stated rule: no verbatim reproduction — the site explains resonance and traces application; the anchor works stay links. **The name, decided:** `influences.sgit.ai` — an *inspiration* is something that moved you; an *influence* is something that **shaped the work**, and this site proves the shaping. **The format, already invented:** the founder's Bret Victor register (shipped in `sources/`) is the model entry — anchor → the founder's words → the principle → **the trace table** (where the estate implements it, with version numbers) → the gaps as build specs → a checklist. `01__` canonises it. --- ## 2. The thesis > **This is the provenance layer of the memory network.** The other sites teach agents *what* the founder thinks and *how* the estate works; this one teaches **where the thinking came from** — so an agent extends the instincts *"on purpose rather than by luck"* (the Victor register's own closing words). And the quality bar, which is what separates this from every awesome-list: **an influence entry is a falsifiable claim about the work.** The trace table can be checked against the repos; the corpus's computed-not-claimed discipline applies to inspiration itself. --- ## 3. The map — three tiers, measured The corpus was mined for every external influence. Full detail in `02__`; the shape: **TRACED — corpus evidence exists (12).** Bret Victor (a *"Brett Victor Problem"* section header in the founder's own article; the Joy-of-Programming white paper; the register). Simon Wardley (210 files; a whole sibling site). The Semantic Web & Tim Berners-Lee (35 files — including a dedicated **Solid-integration brief** and the *"Semantic Web's Insight (and Mistake)"* section in thinking-in-graphs). Graphs (the founding obsession; its own site). OWASP & the security community (271 files; the summits history). Flow / coding in the zone (43 files — **IFD's core principle is "preserving developer flow state"**, with Csikszentmihalyi cited by name in the Aug 2025 IFD article). Open source (its own site; the licence positions). **Niklas Luhmann & the Zettelkasten** (a dedicated published article mapping it to G³ — a discovered influence not on the seed list). Ericsson & deliberate practice / the 10,000 hours (11 files). Popper & falsifiability (7 — *"a map is a claim"*). Torvalds (5). Bruce Schneier (4 — the LLM-failure-modes argument and Solid). **STATED — on the founder's list, thin or absent in the corpus (7).** Neil Peart & Rush · Kevin Kelly's books · Simon Sinek's golden circle · *The Cathedral and the Bazaar* · David Rice's *"Upon the Threshold of Opportunity"* OWASP keynote · music & playing in a band · diverse and distributed teams. **Zero grep hits for most** — these need the founder's briefing documents and research into his past publications, exactly as he intends. They are the site's roadmap, not its debt. **DISCOVERED — in the corpus, not on the seed list (5).** Luhmann (above). **Christopher Alexander** (the Designer role: *"pattern language is the direct ancestor of software design patterns… think of code as a space that developers inhabit"*). The Designer role's wider canon (**Rams, Vignelli, Norman**, Japanese design philosophy). **Team Topologies & Cynefin** (the 2019 hiring post lists them beside Wardley). **Vannevar Bush's memex** (via the Luhmann article). --- ## 4. The honest constraints - **Most STATED entries have no corpus trace yet.** The site publishes them as commitments with research pending — the founder's own plan (*"in time I will create a detailed briefing document about each one"*) becomes the visible roadmap. - **The trace tables age.** Version-stamped claims about the estate need the generate-or-date rule. - **This is the most personal site in the network** — first person is correct here, unlike everywhere else. The house style bends: *"what resonates with me"* is the genre. - **The likeness problem**: infographics *of people* need original artwork, never scraped photos. `04__`. --- ## 5. Build order 1. **`/register/bret-victor/`** — entry one exists. Publish it as both content and template. 2. **`/wardley/`, `/graphs/`, `/owasp/`, `/open-source/`** — the influences that already have sibling sites: short resonance-and-trace entries that link out (the deconflict rule). 3. **`/semantic-web/`** — the best full-format second entry: TBL, the *Insight-and-Mistake* critique, the Solid brief, vaults-vs-pods. An influence *argued with* is the format at its strongest. 4. **`/flow/`** — Victor × Csikszentmihalyi × IFD: three sources converging on one methodology. The trace is the whole IFD guide. 5. **`/luhmann/`** — the discovered entry; the article is nearly the page already. 6. **The STATED seven** — as the founder's briefing documents arrive, each processed into the register format with the past-publications research he named. 7. **`/map/`** — the influence graph: influences → principles → estate features. Eventually the site's own G³ demonstration. --- This document is released under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence (CC BY 4.0).