Abundant Systems

And more than anything, it feels particularly, uncomfortably, acutely uncertain.

Our Centaur Future - A RADAR Report

The biggest thing we can do is give people a sense of a secure present from which to explore potential abundant futures.

Competition is an outdated concept. Instead of trying to ensure you win, try to help everyone win. There's plenty to go around. Refusing to share is just holding you back.

The new economy isn't zero-sum. It's time to realize that and start approaching things differently.

Leo Guinan • The Build In Public Manifesto

abundance at the core

Your financial reality can shift dramatically in a short period of time and often due to things outside of your control.

Designing Your Own Infinite Game In The Creator Economy - Boundless

Does this have to be true?

There is a whole lot of goodness out there when the right systems are in place.

High-quality access to information : social technologies that help people form high-quality opinions about important topics in an adversarial environment. I personally am bullish on prediction markets and Community Notes; you may have a different take on the solutions, but the point is that this topic is important.

Vitalik Buterin • Against Choosing Your Political Allegiances Based on Who Is "Pro-Crypto"

We need ways to filter, validate, and value large amounts of information. Traditionally, this has been limited to the wealthy in the form of “experts”

Over time, plenitude is a process in which more and more goods and services are provided to more and more people, as technologies advance and costs come down to grant new free ‘indulgences’ every year.

noemamag.com • Will AI Bring Plentitude or Further Imperil the Planet? | NOEMA

I love this idea

At large scales, average anything goes to zero.

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Future • Trust Economies - The Future of Social Networks

Damn, that’s a big truth.

I like the term economism . It describes how economic thinking and practice have become ingrained into all sorts of aspects of our lives, even non-economic ones. In today’s world governed by economism , everything seems to need to be measured by economic logic: am I using my time efficiently?

Rabbit Holes 🕳️ #78

Haven’t heard this term before, but I think it follows from the collapse of things into measurements. We started with measuring money as a collapse of information, and that led to collapses of other aspects of the world as a proxy for money where money isn’t available to measure value.

it's important we don't rush.

Divya Siddarth • Building Capacity for Exit to Community

Things need to evolve on the timelines that information is returned.