Economics of Human Energy
Thoughts about how money and human energy relate
by Leo Guinan · updated 3d ago
Economics of Human Energy
- What is the value of work in a world on the cusp of automation, and how will humans redefine their relationship with it?
from Our Centaur Future - A RADAR Report
Leo Guinan added 13d ago
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.
- We are always telling stories, whether we realize it or not. We might as well get good at it. Good stories win people over. They provoke and inspire and inflame the human spirit. It’s a tremendous source of power.
from a matryoshka of possibilities by visakan veerasamy
Leo Guinan added 3mo ago
- In the past jobs were about muscles, now they’re about brains, but in the future, they’ll be about the heart.
from Resistance and Embracing Your Nature by Nicholas Goodey
Leo Guinan added 3mo ago
- I was unwilling to be trapped by something that looked successful on the outside, but felt like shit on the inside.
from All that remains
Leo Guinan added 2mo ago
Leo Guinan added 1mo ago
- This state the importance of unread books in a library. They're the reflection of the things we don't know. Just like Empty notes are better than no notes at all, it's a very socratic approach, considering his famous quote:
What I know is that I know nothing
Knowing this, we should not expect the proportion of unread books in our library to decrease.... See morefrom Antilibrary - My second-brain
Leo Guinan added 1mo ago
- Work is a waste of my time. The things that I’m best at, that I get the most benefit from, and see the most big-picture results from, don’t feel like work.
from Resistance and Embracing Your Nature by Nicholas Goodey
Leo Guinan added 3mo ago
“Work” is wasting energy, because energy goes down. But the truly valuable things make energy go up.
In practice, a startup nonprofit has several important distinctions from traditional nonprofits: 1) it begins with a large goal and works backwards to identify incremental steps to achieve that goal, 2) it has an iterative, experimental mindset, and 3) it is an internet first organization.
from Startup Nonprofits by marklutter.com
Leo Guinan added 13d 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.