Gus Guerrero
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Gus Guerrero
In social science, hope is not simply the belief that one’s circumstances will get better; for that, we use the term optimism. Hope is the belief that an individual can make things better.
What we have is a compounded problem, in which people with generational wealth pull the levers on a society that they don’t understand. Whether corporate policies or social welfare or college financial aid, nearly every aspect of society has been designed by people unfamiliar with not only the experience of living in poverty but the experience of... See more
“Don’t be a hunter-gatherer in the wild, competing for food. go build yourself a magical forest-farm, and grow your garden of nourishing things… keep growing your world. Feed yourself, and have plenty of abundance left over — to feed your guests.”
“Strategy can be considered a simple machine that consists of just four working parts: Ends, Ways, Means, and Assumptions”
For Gray, Ends were the goals, Ways the actions taken, Means were the resources deployed, and Assumptions were the necessary leaps, imagination, and guesses.
Strategy, Rediscovered? — Martin Weigel
Strategy is about “shifting events and outcomes in one’s favour. Strategy in other words, is about creating new futures.”
he can write about anything he wants, but this freedom feels like a prison. “The less free I am, the freer I appear to be,” he tells the reader, in one of the book’s many takedowns of the creative life.
“Those who are truly decrepit, living corpses, so to speak, are the middle-aged, middleclass men and women who are stuck in their comfortable grooves and imagine that the status quo will last forever or else are so frightened it won’t that they have retreated into their mental bomb shelters to wait it out.”
Meanwhile, given that everything we write comes to us via the many lenses of the experiences we’ve accumulated across a life—we speak of trees, for example, according to what we know of trees by actual experience and through what we’ve experienced of trees in books, movies, nursery rhymes, and more—then everything we do is at some level research... See more
Devin Kelly • Carl Phillips's "Delicately, Slow, the World Comes Back"
what if public libraries were open late every night and we could engage in public life there instead of having to choose between drinking at the bar and domestic isolation
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