Glossary
Terms and acronyms
Concepts, abbreviations and terms from the Existonomist universe. Hover marked words in the weeknotes to get a short explanation. Every new weeknote is checked against this list for missing terms, sources, and explanations.
| actuality What exists independently of human interpretation: bodies, limits, consequences, time and energy. | |
| AA | Adaptive Accelerator The English working term for Betriebskatalyse: a school of thought that treats organizations as living systems. |
| ASC | Appreciative Smart Contract A Misthos agreement layer for fair partnership and value contribution sharing. |
| Astro Web framework used to build this multilingual static site. | |
| Claude Cowork A working mode in which Claude acts as an AI colleague for text, structure or code. | |
| Duo Concierge A venture for better client onboarding in tax firms, especially around DATEV Unternehmen online. | |
| EO | Energy Owner A venture for app-based energy management of solar and home battery systems. |
| Ethos The value-based stance and cultural radiation of an organization. | |
| existonomist A person who acts economically in the spirit of Existonomy. | |
| Existonomy An approach that asks which economic rules support existence. | |
| Extended Mind Thesis that thinking happens not only in the head, but with external tools and environments. | |
| Fokusgarten Francois Zietlow’s venture: a tool that makes progress visible even when the plan refuses to behave. | |
| gatekeeper The image for review as a boundary before public release. | |
| Hermes Personal AI assistant that orchestrates tools, sources and profiles. | |
| HiNotes Recording and transcription platform for conversations and audio material. | |
| HM | Holistic Metrics Whole-system metrics from Eric Ries’ Incorruptible. |
| Incorruptible Eric Ries’ book about organizations that resist corruption when money, people and fear enter the room. | |
| lifeboat The image for founding from pressure rather than free departure. | |
| Miro Online whiteboard for shared workshop work, models and decision maps. | |
| Misthos A service for fair, democratic participation in economic value. | |
| Noesis Neo4J-based knowledge graph for the Second Brain. | |
| Odoo Open-source ERP system. | |
| One Tax | One Tax / capital transfer tax An Existonomy tax model: one tax on capital movements. |
| outcome The real effect of work, beyond visible production. | |
| output Produced work. Useful only when it also changes what matters. | |
| PARA | PARA-Methode Organization system: Projects, Areas, Resources, Archives. |
| partnership work Cooperation that also carries economic risk and responsibility. | |
| review The gatekeeper before publication: what works stays; what is unclear gets marked, not smoothed over. | |
| RiskMastery Pro A venture for professional risk management: see risks early, evaluate them cleanly, and make decisions more robust. | |
| SB | Second Brain Personal knowledge-management system built on digital notes. |
| shared reality Human-made orders such as rules, markets, money, roles, contracts and organizations. | |
| Soul Sadhaka Tanja Milich’s venture: coaching with a dog as a living counterpart, not seminar decoration. | |
| source work The duty to check origin, errors and attribution before material becomes public thought. | |
| TrustGrid A tool for making value contributions and risks visible in a team. | |
| value contribution Actual contribution to value creation, not automatically the same as time or presence. | |
| venture An undertaking with an economic hypothesis, risk, roles and an open outcome. | |
| workbench The place where a piece of work becomes visible enough to be examined. | |
| workshop The central image for visible work that is still protected. |