Here’s a draft **invitation email to Anthony Waller** — it aims to be both warm and intellectually engaging, highlighting his strengths while inviting genuine collaboration: ---
# Anthony Waller Invite
Dear Anthony, It feels like the right time to reconnect. We’re in the midst of “rewilding” **H2G2.com** into a living, evolving experiment — Hitchhiker’s Guide to Earth — and I’d love for you to join as one of the Vision Fish helping shape its early direction.
You were there at the start of the original Guide project, and your insights into how law, technology and governance interlace have never been more relevant. This next phase builds on that same curiosity — how a planetary guide might actually *govern itself*.
At the heart of the project is the Hitchhiker Congress — a constitutional assembly that will prototype new forms of participatory lawmaking for a digital commons. We’re exploring how to **create the world’s first globally, mutually-owned digital platform**, and to do so, we’re developing a framework that unites: - Participatory Legal Design — drawing from the latest in legal design labs and community-driven governance - Constrained Legal Languages — enabling clarity, transparency, and machine-readable constitutional drafting - Computational Law and AI-assisted Governance — tools that can make legal norms executable, auditable, and responsive to community input - The broader philosophical question of how humans can collaboratively define, test and evolve the rules that shape algorithmic systems themselves
In short, we’re building a constitution that can **govern both people and algorithms**, with co-design as the democratic process.
Given your longstanding role at the boundary of law and technology — and your early support of The Guide — your perspective on how to convene and structure the constitutional assembly would be invaluable. You’ve always balanced the practical with the visionary, and that’s exactly the mix this project needs as we start to assemble a global founding cohort.
Would you be open to a Short Conversation to discuss how you might want to be involved, perhaps as a founding advisor or co-convenor of the legal-design track?
With warmth, gratitude, and a well-packed towel, **Robbie Stamp and the Vision Fish** Hitchhiker’s Guide to Earth