# Upgrading Playbook

We encourage you to experiment at your level and share your learnings to help evolve the system. You may do so in the form of ideas. 

### Process

1. **Proposal**\
   Create an issue on the [Github Repo](https://github.com/thevantageproject/playbook) describing the idea and your lens.<br>
2. **Sanity check**\
   The idea is auto-added to the agenda of the weekend syncup to solicit feedback.<br>
3. **Draft**\
   If and when it is vetted, it is taken up in the partner syncup and concluded.<br>
4. **Merged**\
   A PR is made and the change merged onto the main chain.&#x20;

### Principles

1. **No Retrospective Changes**\
   All changes are applied looking forward. And when upgrading, consent is re-solicited.<br>
2. **Owner's skin. Owner's call.**\
   Ownership is a mindset, but it is also real material skin in the game. All equity holders are called Partners. And only they may impact a system-level change.<br>
3. **Meritocracy. Not mobocracy.** \
   Transparency may look like democracy. It is not. \
   Democracy may look like freedom. It is not.\
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   The goal is to empower individual drive. Not sacrifice it to consensus. In cases of dissonance; fork. And let evolution take its course.&#x20;

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### How to become a Partner

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[Basics of Ascending](/evolving/basics-of-ascending.md)
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