Abundant Systems
by Leo Guinan · updated 10d ago
Abundant Systems
- a scarce system is one in which there are limited resources and one person in the system getting those resources means that everyone else can’t have those same resources. A zero-sum game.
from Introduction to Abundant Systems
Leo Guinan added 1mo ago
- Kindness has unlimited upside.”
from 3 Ideas, 2 Quotes, 1 Question (December 26, 2019) | James Clear by James Clear
Leo Guinan added 1mo ago
- “AI will lift the ceiling, leading to more creative outputs made possible by more powerful tools; it will also lower the floor, making it easier for anyone to design and collaborate.”
from Our Centaur Future - A RADAR Report
Leo Guinan added 13d ago
When the gap between the ceiling and flow increases, the way to prevent unrest is by adding more steps between. It’s important to see clearly how to level up to the ceiling, and not only enable people who have the ability to make the leap between the existing steps. More people being able to do something shouldn’t threaten the existence of anyone currently doing the thing.
- "All parts of our economy were previously based on scarcity. In almost every case, that scarcity has disappeared. The way you win on the internet is to be the starting place where people go - Google, Facebook, these aggregators - or you're highly differentiated and you leverage the fact that you have zero distribution to reach anyone."
from Platforms, Ecosystems, and Aggregators by Ben Thompson
Leo Guinan added 2mo ago
- 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.
from Will AI Bring Plentitude or Further Imperil the Planet? | NOEMA by noemamag.com
Leo Guinan added 1mo ago
I love this idea
- scarce systems do what is most likely to succeed right now, because tomorrow isn’t guaranteed. Abundant systems assume that tomorrow will be there, so it’s ok to focus on longer term goals.
from Introduction to Abundant Systems
Leo Guinan added 1mo ago
System timelines - short-term scarcity vs long-term abundance
- Abundance is different: its advent means we can start treating previously valuable things as if they were cheap enough to waste, which is to say cheap enough to experiment with. Because abundance can remove the trade-offs we’re used to, it can be disorienting to the people who’ve grown up with scarcity.
from Cognitive Surplus: How Technology Makes Consumers into Collaborators by Clay Shirky
Leo Guinan added 2mo ago
- Yet, one of the superpowers of connected technologies - networks - is that they will remove scarcity if at all possible. Connected networks by definition make things abundant that were once scarce.
from On art and business and context and mirrors by Andy Weissman
Leo Guinan added 2mo ago
- Each technology not only unlocks a new state of expanded acceleration (that will be hardcoded into our lives as the new basis for our survival), but will also be used as the basis for new technologies to continue that process. The vast majority of people do not experience this technology as ‘liberating’ them. Rather, they experience it as something... See more
from Our Centaur Future - A RADAR Report
Leo Guinan added 13d ago
Because we don’t think about valuing the work to be done in the future, only the work to be done now, we don’t give people space to explore what the future holds. Instead, we stress people out by giving them vague possibilities of an uncertain future with no time to explore them. By giving people the time, space, and freedom to explore what the future might hold, they will find abundant futures that are bright and exciting. Those are the futures they will work to actively create.