Economics of Human Energy

Thoughts about how money and human energy relate

Despite my tendency to procrastinate, I’ve gotten (mostly) good at not being late for things because I spend a lot of my energy trying to not let other people down.

TRUSTWORTHY TRUST

How much energy is lost for the sake of trying to maintain some level of “adulting”?

By the simplification-as-collapse theory, good futures, ones worth working for, are by definition going to be too complex to be legible before we’ve actually lived through them. If you tell your story in a powerful, inspiring, coherent way that millions resonate with, and cannot see in what way your story invisibly features degrowth and collapse,... See more

every story is a degrowth story

Ok, I think I see where he’s going. But I think there’s also a possibility of a counter narrative that can re-write the degrowth one in terms of growth.

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”

They want your time , enough of it to make you theirs, even if they have no use for most of it. Otherwise why hasn’t the average work week gone down by more than a few minutes in the last sixty years?

Bob Black • The Abolition of Work

Getting found is about being findable.

Tina Mai • Kernel | Chaos Theory

Takes less energy to be found if you are findable. Less energy it takes, more likely to happen.

Similarly, I wonder whether the creator economy, as it matures, will resemble less of its original promise (a way for people to do the things they love), in favor of a “creator industrial complex.” Part of the problem is that creativity comes in fits and starts, and can’t always be tamed into a predictable routine. If you’re obligated to create... See more

Nadia Asparouhova • The creator economy

Creativity collapsing to productivity because money doesn’t know how to reward creativity

a community is more than just a group of like-minded people. it requires a shared emotional energy.

Case in point: communities share energy, companies share time

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Human Centered Design

“Wotan, the All-Father, understood that violence without wisdom leads to destruction, while wisdom without violence remains impotent. To gain true knowledge, he sacrificed himself to himself, hanging from the World Tree, Yggdrasil, for nine days and nights, wounded by his own spear. Only through this voluntary suffering, this self-inflicted wound,

At least now I know what I did.