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Living in separation is toxic for humans, regardless of whether we win or lose. Winners and losers adopt predictable behaviors even over very short-term gains. This is investigated in the rigged monopoly game experiments, in which a coin flip creates “rich” players, who by necessity win because they have many more resources. They regularly act in... See more
Miki Kashtan • Why Capitalism Cannot Be Redeemed
Reciprocity is not merely generosity; giving away a surplus is an investment, insurance that others will help in your own time of need
Kathleen DuVal • A 600-Year-Old Blueprint for Weathering Climate Change
Part of what I feel is important right now is to be in the system and to be creating these pockets and spaces and kind of stretching the constraints of people deeply in the current broken system to think differently, to expand their perspective, to exercise their moral imagination to look at a situation from a seven generations in the future, or... See more
Felix de Rosen • Sensing Towards Personal & Cultural Transformation
Our current instruments and infrastructures are struggling to cope. Traditional employment contracts enforce rigidity, property rights are divisive and major institutions like the International Monetary Fund only consider narrow, money-centred definitions of value.Developing civic infrastructures such as food forests would reduce strain upon global... See more
Dark Matter Labs • Radicle Civics – Unconstituting Society 071022.pdf
Lessons from Edward Tufte
anilbas.github.io
But that is not how the mind works. First of all, the mind doesn’t truly care about “success”; it just wants to feel loved and then it mistakenly assumes that that is what “success” will bring. Second, whether or not your life feels “lame” is really a matter of how earnestly you pay attention to the world, rather than how much “success” you’ve achieved. In other words: “success”, in the conventional sense, can be completely decoupled from your happiness, and so can failure.
If you have unconventional ideas, you can create a large impact by forcing those ideas onto people and systems that exist in conventional institutions
-Palmer Luckey
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