{
 "kind": "route",
 "format": "kosplora-route/0.1",
 "question": "What makes a recurring gathering outlive its founder?",
 "move": [
  "understand",
  "organize"
 ],
 "audience": "For anyone who hosts something, or wants to stop being indispensable to it.",
 "time": {
  "solo": "2h30m",
  "together": "60m"
 },
 "authors": [
  {
   "name": "Bentley, with Claude",
   "date": "2026-08-18"
  }
 ],
 "drafted_with": "Claude (Anthropic), directed and edited by Bentley",
 "would_change": "A gathering that has survived two founder departures with no written agreements and no informal center of power would weaken station 1's premise; the route would take it in as a study case rather than argue around it.",
 "conditions": {
  "asks": [
   "time",
   "energy",
   "social"
  ],
  "note": "Filled in the walker, kept on your device, expires with the route."
 },
 "stations": [
  {
   "type": "orient",
   "time": "35m",
   "task": "Read the classic argument that groups without formal structure still have structure, just hidden and unaccountable.",
   "sources": [
    {
     "title": "The Tyranny of Structurelessness",
     "author": "Jo Freeman",
     "date": "1972",
     "url": "https://www.jofreeman.com/joreen/tyranny.htm",
     "origin": "published"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "type": "source",
   "time": "40m",
   "task": "Read the design principles drawn from commons that lasted centuries, and mark the three that could apply to a weekly gathering.",
   "sources": [
    {
     "title": "Governing the Commons, the design principles for long-enduring institutions",
     "author": "Elinor Ostrom",
     "date": "1990",
     "origin": "published"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "type": "person",
   "time": "40m",
   "task": "Speak with someone who has hosted a recurring gathering for two years or more, and with someone who let one end. Ask both what was never written down."
  },
  {
   "type": "counterpoint",
   "time": "20m",
   "task": "State the strongest case that writing the structure down would kill what makes the gathering worth attending.",
   "sources": [
    {
     "title": "The Utopia of Rules",
     "author": "David Graeber",
     "date": "2015",
     "origin": "published"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "type": "make",
   "time": "45m",
   "template": "continuity-plan",
   "task": "Write a one-page continuity plan for a real gathering: what is actually agreed, who else can host, what money or space depends on one person, and what would dissolve it on purpose rather than by neglect."
  },
  {
   "type": "reflect",
   "time": "15m",
   "task": "Show the plan to one regular attendee. Record what they corrected and what stays unresolved."
  }
 ],
 "artifact": {
  "template": "continuity-plan",
  "keeps": "A one-page continuity plan the gathering can adopt, amend, or refuse."
 },
 "exit": [
  "keep",
  "share",
  "fork",
  "teach",
  "correct-a-source",
  "close"
 ],
 "revisions": [
  {
   "date": "2026-08-18",
   "change": "First version.",
   "by": "Bentley and Claude"
  }
 ]
}