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Create ownership in everything. Revenue shares in projects. Equity in micro-companies. Stakes in outcomes. The Old Game keeps you permanently renting

When individual entry is impossible, collective entry becomes optimal. When traditional financing fails, alternative structures win. The groups doing

“We have to overcome some legal hurdles, but we could unionize musicians tomorrow,” DeFrancesco said. “SAG is like an alternate history for musicians.

Gen Z and the End of Predictable Progress - by kyla scanlon

The game has shifted, and the winning strategy with it. It’s no longer about understanding specialized details; it’s about grasping the high-level glo

What we do with our freedomThe examples of the excruciating etiquette of the aristocratic courts, the marriage market Rhimes dramatised, the civil ass

🧱Alternative funding model (inspired by cooperative breweries) Get 1,000 people to chip in $1,000. Make them members/ co-owners. Put each person's

If you make a cooperative, you have to know that you can’t design them; you can only grow them, like plants. If you grow one and you do it with other

Effective Altruism Is Pushing a Dangerous Brand of ‘AI Safety’

..it is possible that every bit of complex technology will in its turn reveal to us something about ourselves we did not know. Part of inventing and t

I’m equally responsible to the people who pay me to design and the people who have to live with my designs

My Techno-Optimism

We should be skeptical of both utopian and dystopian technology predictions. New tools will amplify both our virtues and our vices, just like every pr

..it is possible that every bit of complex technology will in its turn reveal to us something about ourselves we did not know. Part of inventing and t

via shawn smucker <3 Be sure to use AI when making your next, I don’t know, meal plan, for example. Definitely do not call your friend who loves to co

Anxiety of incompetence: my skills are devalued and i have to learn new onesAnxiety of irrelevance: people might not relate to, value, or think about

..it is possible that every bit of complex technology will in its turn reveal to us something about ourselves we did not know. Part of inventing and t

Now on to the good news. Your no thanks doesn’t need to be an absolute, total, eternal no. We can use typewriters to write letters and write a poem on

The Technology That Actually Runs Our World

At the Institute for the Future we believe that the value of futures thinking is not in predicting the future (something no one can do), but in imagin

Cayce Pollard as the positive archetype for how to navigate volatility. So by intensely tuning oneself in to subjective responses to things, you can c

The purpose is to scout the path and shift the discourse.

honestly i'm so good at consuming content LMAO. like how do I make it my job to literally just read, watch, and listen to stuff??

A Vision of Metascience

It’s about the same trap in professional life: doing the thing for years, getting more experienced, and staying stuck at the same level. You can work

I don't know if I'm ever going to get rich doing this but I am going to keep making things that I want to exist, in a way that seems fun and to a leve

What we see as an agency in our work with creatorsWe work with a lot of creators around the world for different brands, markets and niches and the one

So who survives?First, creators who publish citable work. Newsletter writers who go deep on one thing. Analysts who publish original data. Technical w

If you have a theory that’s been working pretty well for a while — it made good predictions, it solved real problems, it explained a lot of mysteries

Real explanations will sometimes sound weird, crazy, or too complicated because reality itself is often weird, crazy, or too complicated. It’s unfortu

Things change as contradictory evidence piles up, but even then, it doesn’t mean you should scrap the theory you started out with. Everyone back in th

The model was helpful—but only to an extent. They found that while AI improved the output of less creative writers, it made little difference to the q

Lots of theories have been tried, and lots of them have been given up because of something that looks like contradictory evidence. But the evidence mi

If you have a theory that’s been working pretty well for a while — it made good predictions, it solved real problems, it explained a lot of mysteries

Real explanations will sometimes sound weird, crazy, or too complicated because reality itself is often weird, crazy, or too complicated. It’s unfortu

Things change as contradictory evidence piles up, but even then, it doesn’t mean you should scrap the theory you started out with. Everyone back in th