Leo Guinan
@leoguinan
Leo Guinan
"There is no way to happiness - happiness is the way." - Thich Nhat Hahn
Economics of Human Energy and What we value
Happiness makes things easier
I don’t want to wait for the world to change.
I want to live it.
I want to live it.
How I’m Planning to Defeat Global Ecosystem Collapse (By Living the Alternative)
This is the secret to time travel. You have to be the first one to the be the example that others can follow.
So, beyond pharmacological clock modulation, drugs that alter consciousness broadly often secondarily alter time perception by changing what the mind is attending to or capable of processing .
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What can the brain process that we haven’t realized yet?
Looking at quantitative vs. qualitative effects: stimulants and simple sedatives primarily cause quantitative changes in timing (people err in one direction on interval tasks, but they generally still understand that time is flowing). Psychedelics, cannabis, and dissociatives often add a qualitative layer – users report that their entire relationsh... See more
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From linear time to multidimensional time
This illustrates the earlier point about attention: if a stimulant greatly enhances focus on a particular activity to the exclusion of clock-watching, the person might underestimate time (time seems to fly) despite the physiological tendency of the drug to speed the clock
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Relative experience can flip between one and the other given the right criteria
Intriguingly, this effect was not dose-dependent within the range tested: even a low psychoactive dose produced nearly the same time dilation as a higher dose
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hmm….weed has a set amount of dilation, which is something I seem to be able to depend on.
In early 2021, while most founders were chasing quick exits, I was laying the foundation for something more sustainable. The digital fingerprints are clear in my content DNA—establishing values and identity wasn't just personal branding. It was memetic groundwork.
The Time Architect: From Building in Public to Bending Time
What we value and Economics of Human Energy
What’s your content DNA look like?
Good use of attention up the chain of society is rewarded. Bad use of it is punished. This system creates “sustainable marketing pathways”, a kind of information highway.
How do we bootstrap the Open Research Institute?
Memetic Foundations of Human Value and Reactions to Defender
The problem with this system is that it can be self-referential and lead to people who are trying to use attention well not being able to capture enough attention to bring resources to fix a large problem. We need better recognition systems instead of self-reporting ones.
Anne Helen Petersen once memorably described this as "LARPing your job"—performing a theatrical version of productivity. Workers engage in elaborate displays of "being at work": staying visible on Slack, responding to emails at all hours, and maintaining a digital presence that signals industriousness. The tools have evolved—from software that moni... See more
AI Phobia Is Just Fear That ‘Easier’ Equals ‘Cheating’
What we value and Memetic Foundations of Human Value
If you pretend to pay them, they’ll pretend to work.
Work has to be tied to performance and salary. People have to have an obvious target to shoot for.