Got Work You’re Proud Of—or Ideas You Care About?

🎨 Got Work You’re Proud Of—or Ideas You Care About?

You’re One Step Away from Contributing to the Meta-Layer Initiative.

Whether you’ve written a manifesto, built a prototype, recorded a podcast—or curated powerful ideas from people you admire—you’re not just a creator or a curator. You’re a systems thinker. And the Meta-Layer Initiative needs your voice.

But here’s the best part:
You don’t need to start from scratch.

Using a free tool called NotebookLM, you can map your ideas (or ones you care about) directly to the Desirable Properties of the Meta-Layer—and help shape a public protocol in just a few minutes.

🌐 What’s the Meta-Layer?

The Meta-Layer is a protocol for meaning:
A shared space above the webpage where humans and agents interact in context—with presence, creativity, and trust.

It’s being defined now.
And your ideas—your essays, projects, interviews, memes, or curated resources—could help determine what this layer will enable.

🧠 Use NotebookLM to Align Your Work with the Protocol

NotebookLM is an AI research assistant from Google that lets you upload or link to your own content—and then ask questions across those materials.

You can include up to 50 sources in a single notebook. That’s more than enough to bring in:

• Your own published or unpublished works

• Links to online essays, blog posts, Substacks, PDFs

• Transcripts from talks or podcasts

• Ideas from others that you believe should be supported in the next layer of the internet

🧭 How to Use It to Contribute

✅ Step 1: Go to NotebookLM

Sign in with a Google account. You’ll land on your Notebook Dashboard.

Click “+ New Notebook” to begin.

✅ Step 2: Add Your Sources

In the notebook’s left-hand panel, click:

“Add Sources” → Upload files or Paste Links

You can:

• Upload PDFs, Google Docs, or text files

• Paste links to articles, blog posts, or Substacks

• Upload transcripts or documents by creators you want to support (even if you didn’t write them)

You can include up to 50 documents or URLs.

✅ Tip: You can even paste in plain text if you don’t have a file handy.

🧠 You don’t have to be the original author—curation is contribution.
If someone else’s vision resonates with you, lifting it into the protocol design process is a powerful act.

✅ Step 3: Add Meta-Layer Source Material

To align your thinking with the Meta-Layer design, paste in these two key sources:

• https://themetalayer.org

• https://themetalayer.org/desirable-properties

These will help NotebookLM understand what Desirable Properties have already been defined—and how your work might align, expand, or challenge them.

✅ Step 4: Ask the AI Assistant to Identify Overlap

Once your sources are uploaded, use the “Ask a Question” field at the bottom right. Try this prompt:

“Please identify the specific Desirable Properties of the Meta-Layer that would be necessary to support or enable the ideas outlined in these sources.”

Or go deeper:

“Which Meta-Layer properties are most aligned with these works, and which ideas might require new properties or extensions?”

✅ You can also click on any individual source and highlight passages to ask targeted follow-ups.

🎧 Optional: Use the Podcast View

Want to explore how your ideas play together?

NotebookLM also offers a Podcast-style interface where you can hear your sources “discuss” or be summarized like co-hosts. It’s a fun way to surface insights, themes, or points of conflict.

To try it:

• Click “Podcast” in the notebook’s top navigation bar

• Select a few sources and hit Generate Podcast

You’ll get a conversational-style summary that can spark even more connections.

✨ Why This Matters

Most infrastructure is built before it’s ever made to reflect the people who’ll use it.

But the Meta-Layer is being shaped by public input—and you can help ensure that the things you’ve already made, shared, or supported help guide it.

Your vision—or the vision you carry—should not only influence the future of the web.
It should be supported by it.

📚 You don’t have to be the original author. If you’ve carried an idea, amplified a piece, or protected a principle… you’ve contributed. Now it’s time to document that contribution.

🎖️ What You’ll Receive

• A BRC-333 Ordinal Badge on Bitcoin, recognizing your contribution

• Recognition on the Metaweb Contributor Wall

• Inclusion in the early Metaweb Cultural Archive

• And the quiet satisfaction of helping guide the infrastructure of the future

✍️ Ready to Submit?

Once you’ve explored your ideas in NotebookLM and surfaced some alignment:

👉 Visit themetalayer.org/contribute

You’ll be asked to:

• Share a link or description of your work (or someone else’s)

• List the Desirable Properties your submission touches on

• Add a Taproot-enabled Bitcoin wallet to receive your badge

🌱 The Next Layer is Being Written—Don’t Let It Forget What You’ve Already Done

Whether you’re contributing your own original work, lifting up someone else’s, or just surfacing what should be reflected in protocol design—this is your chance to make it count.

The tools are free.
The door is open.
The protocol is listening.