Economics of Human Energy

You don’t need to wait until your curiosity is automatically triggered. Make space for exploring, learning, wondering and mind wandering. Make curiosity a habit.

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.

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?

Similar to Zhang Yiming, Mark Zuckerberg doesn’t care very much about the content on his platforms and is much more interested in technology and AI.

The faster the experimentation cycles, the faster the learning, the more of an advantage you have over established people and companies.

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

H]uman beings need all the relatives they can get–as possible donors or receivers not necessarily of love, but of common decency.

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When we were children in Indianapolis, Indiana, it appeared that we would always have an extended family of genuine relatives there. Our parents and grandparents, after all, had grown up there with shoals of siblings

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At present most work is useless or worse and we should simply get rid of it.

• Paladin saves the world? Degrowth story.


• Barbarian masculine energy saves the world? Degrowth story.


• Enlightened sexless bureaucracy saves the world? Degrowth story.


• Nurturing feminine energy saves the world? Degrowth story.


• Unbridled technological acceleration saves the world? Degrowth story.


• Unbridled GDP growth saves the world? Degrowth story.


• Saintly

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