BuildingUpdated Sep 19Studio
Public file / POAM.comSignal / Messages from the field now reach the mission tool as they happen.
Field checked
StudioBuilding
POAM
Street-level missions, dispatches, and curious citizens.
Last updated: Sep 19
A studio for missions, field dispatches, street-level curiosity, and artful civic action.
A mission is easier to join when it has a shape, a place, and a visible trail of people doing something real.
The site card now uses a cleaner mission-board cover and the shorter public domain label.
Messages from the field now reach the mission tool as they happen.
Missions
- 2023
Ban Babies On Valencia
POAM's first mission: a satirical campaign to ban babies from Valencia Street, played completely straight.
- 2023
Pigeon Post
A proposal that everyone swap their phone for a carrier pigeon.
- 2023
23 Rules
POAM's first printed book, and the thing that got POAM onto shop shelves.
- 2023–
Memory Market
Bring an object you have a memory of, a memorologist documents it, and you go home with a different one.
- 2023–
Missing Patron
A citywide street game: find the six manifestations of Arthur B. Sellers III.
- 2024
Local Business Protection Initiative
A citywide scavenger hunt for locally owned businesses, before they go extinct in 2057.
- 2024–
Solicited Wisdom Hotline
A phone line dispensing wisdom nobody asked for.
- 2024–
Input Archive
A record of moments when someone felt the Guiding Hand.
- 2024–2025
Will This Still Be Funny In The Future
A live stage show of satire, games and improv, with the audience playing along.
- 2025–
Disposable Culture
A newsstand at Church & Market selling a paper about passing signals, not current events.
- 2026–
Get Lost SF
Finding San Francisco without algorithms, optimized routes or recommendations.
Project log
Live message handling
What you can do now: messages from the field reach the mission tool as they happen, and a person’s full conversation history is searchable in one place.
POAM card simplified
What you can do now: read POAM as a clean project card on JasonReichl.com with a short POAM.com label and a direct path to peopleonamission.com.
Mission systems mapped
What you can do now: see POAM as a public mission system with a website, HQ, and field experiences connected under one project story.
Public site documented
What you can do now: visit the photography-forward People On A Mission site for missions, volunteer paths, contact points, and the public POAM story.
BuildingUpdated Sep 19Studio
Public file / POAM.comSignal / Messages from the field now reach the mission tool as they happen.
Field checked
StudioBuilding
POAM
Street-level missions, dispatches, and curious citizens.
Last updated: Sep 19
A studio for missions, field dispatches, street-level curiosity, and artful civic action.
A mission is easier to join when it has a shape, a place, and a visible trail of people doing something real.
The site card now uses a cleaner mission-board cover and the shorter public domain label.
Messages from the field now reach the mission tool as they happen.
Missions
- 2023
Ban Babies On Valencia
POAM's first mission: a satirical campaign to ban babies from Valencia Street, played completely straight.
- 2023
Pigeon Post
A proposal that everyone swap their phone for a carrier pigeon.
- 2023
23 Rules
POAM's first printed book, and the thing that got POAM onto shop shelves.
- 2023–
Memory Market
Bring an object you have a memory of, a memorologist documents it, and you go home with a different one.
- 2023–
Missing Patron
A citywide street game: find the six manifestations of Arthur B. Sellers III.
- 2024
Local Business Protection Initiative
A citywide scavenger hunt for locally owned businesses, before they go extinct in 2057.
- 2024–
Solicited Wisdom Hotline
A phone line dispensing wisdom nobody asked for.
- 2024–
Input Archive
A record of moments when someone felt the Guiding Hand.
- 2024–2025
Will This Still Be Funny In The Future
A live stage show of satire, games and improv, with the audience playing along.
- 2025–
Disposable Culture
A newsstand at Church & Market selling a paper about passing signals, not current events.
- 2026–
Get Lost SF
Finding San Francisco without algorithms, optimized routes or recommendations.
Project log
Live message handling
What you can do now: messages from the field reach the mission tool as they happen, and a person’s full conversation history is searchable in one place.
POAM card simplified
What you can do now: read POAM as a clean project card on JasonReichl.com with a short POAM.com label and a direct path to peopleonamission.com.
Mission systems mapped
What you can do now: see POAM as a public mission system with a website, HQ, and field experiences connected under one project story.
Public site documented
What you can do now: visit the photography-forward People On A Mission site for missions, volunteer paths, contact points, and the public POAM story.