Leo Guinan
@leoguinan
Leo Guinan
- 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.
from TRUSTWORTHY TRUST
How much energy is lost for the sake of trying to maintain some level of “adulting”?
- The tough thing about getting diagnosed with something later in life is that it makes you question everything that came before it.
from TRUSTWORTHY TRUST
Language and Thought and Beauty
This is powerfully true and vividly felt.
- All I can control is how present, open, and accepting I am to what is happening now.
from what's minnow been up to?
Welcome the now
- Coaching, I found, was essentially a portrait session without a camera.
from what's minnow been up to?
Love this view of coaching
- “The best way to be superhuman is to do things that you love with other people who love them, too.” - Cory Doctorow, Walkaway
from WORLDBUILDING: Multiplayer collaging the future
Beauty and
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- “AI will lift the ceiling, leading to more creative outputs made possible by more powerful tools; it will also lower the floor, making it easier for anyone to design and collaborate.”
from Our Centaur Future - A RADAR Report
Abundant Systems and
When the gap between the ceiling and flow increases, the way to prevent unrest is by adding more steps between. It’s important to see clearly how to level up to the ceiling, and not only enable people who have the ability to make the leap between the existing steps. More people being able to do something shouldn’t threaten the existence of anyone currently doing the thing.
- As Brian Merchant argues in his book, Blood in the Machine , the rebellion was more nuanced than we realize, standing “not against technology per se but for the rights of workers above the inequitable profitability of machines.”
from Our Centaur Future - A RADAR Report
Economics of Human Energy and Abundant Systems
This is what abundant systems recognize. It’s not about the machines or the data, it’s about the humans. When we build abundantly, we ensure that everyone is taken care of, because that builds the best possible long-term future.
- The better we know ourselves, the better we’re able to design systems, technologies, lenses that intentionally empower our lights vs. blindly perpetuate our shadows.”
from Our Centaur Future - A RADAR Report
Damn, this hits deep. I love this so much.
- 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
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.