Economics of Human Energy
Thoughts about how money and human energy relate
Economics of Human Energy
3. Energy Usage: Neurons use energy for various functions, like transmitting signals, maintaining the balance of ions across their membranes, and synthesizing neurotransmitters and other molecules. Neuroenergetics examines how energy is utilized for these critical tasks.
Anne-Laure Le Cunff • Neuroenergetics: Your Brain’s Energy Budgeting System
How can we minimize the amount of energy we spend so we can maximize the energy spent on others?
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”?
Creators make money so they can make stuff, instead of the other way around.
Dr. Gena Gorlin • Fantastic Builders and Where to Find Them, 5th Installment
This is an important thing to realize.
What is the value of work in a world on the cusp of automation, and how will humans redefine their relationship with it?
Our Centaur Future - A RADAR Report
Work isn’t valuable. People are. People can set a value on the work that is done, therefore, they are the most valuable piece of the equation. Work for the sake of work has no value.
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
In the US, this began with the launch of TikTok.
Jonah Peretti • The Anti-SNARF Manifesto
this began well before TikTok.
It was always there from the time we networked the first computers together, because it’s the flaw with the economy first and foremost.
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.
Our Centaur Future - A RADAR Report
When you think about the future, you spend a little energy now to optimize what will come later
This is the paradox of our time: the very tools designed to free us from labor are trapping us in an endless cycle of escalating work.
Tina He • Jevons Paradox: A personal perspective
Yes.