# Minimum Necessary Alignment the set of beliefs you need to agree on with someone to put everything else aside and move forward on a common goal. ### Related * [[Playing the same game is the only way people can align for extremely long time scales]] * [[Alignment between people playing different games can happen on finite time scales]] * [[Goal aligning happens on specific scopes and timescales]] ## Reference * Originally from [[Balaji Srinivasan]] [Balaji S. Srinivasan on Twitter: “Minimum necessary alignment: the set of beliefs you need to agree on with someone to put everything else aside and move forward on a common goal.”](https://twitter.com/balajis/status/1082097138396348417?s=12)