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Leo Guinan

“The finest line of poetry ever uttered in the history of this whole damn country was said by Canada Bill Jones in 1853, in Baton Rouge, while he was

Visual Lexicon0
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The future1
Leo Guinan

"when the data and anecdotes disagree, the anecdotes are usually right. it’s not that the data is miscollected, it’s that you’re not measuring the rig

The Future1
Leo Guinan

Right now, as you read this, someone is profiting from your temporal poverty.Not your lack of hours—you have the same 24 as everyone else. But your in

Human Perception of Time6
Leo Guinan

Looking at quantitative vs. qualitative effects: stimulants and simple sedatives primarily cause quantitative changes in timing (people err in one dir

So, beyond pharmacological clock modulation, drugs that alter consciousness broadly often secondarily alter time perception by changing what the mind

I don’t want to wait for the world to change.I want to live it.

Right now, as you read this, someone is profiting from your temporal poverty.Not your lack of hours—you have the same 24 as everyone else. But your in

Economics of Human Energy58
Leo Guinan

In early 2021, while most founders were chasing quick exits, I was laying the foundation for something more sustainable. The digital fingerprints are

I don’t want to wait for the world to change.I want to live it.

"There is no way to happiness - happiness is the way." - Thich Nhat Hahn

Right now, as you read this, someone is profiting from your temporal poverty.Not your lack of hours—you have the same 24 as everyone else. But your in

Things to enjoy about the rise1
Leo Guinan

It's funny because personally I always thought the math was what was blocking people. Imo the piece missing is experiential, and that's why rigorous

What we value28
Leo Guinan

Anne Helen Petersen once memorably described this as "LARPing your job"—performing a theatrical version of productivity. Workers engage in elaborate d

In early 2021, while most founders were chasing quick exits, I was laying the foundation for something more sustainable. The digital fingerprints are

I don’t want to wait for the world to change.I want to live it.

"There is no way to happiness - happiness is the way." - Thich Nhat Hahn

Reactions to Defender1
Leo Guinan

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

Memetic Foundations of Human Value5
Leo Guinan

Through this work, we can create economies that truly serve human flourishing rather than merely extracting value from human activity—economies built

What we have long called the creator economy is evolving to become more of a “meaning economy,” where the creators and brands and experiences that eng

Anne Helen Petersen once memorably described this as "LARPing your job"—performing a theatrical version of productivity. Workers engage in elaborate d

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

Examples of Quality2
Leo Guinan

What we have long called the creator economy is evolving to become more of a “meaning economy,” where the creators and brands and experiences that eng

Personal Enterprise2
Leo Guinan

A go-to-market (GTM) strategy is a plan that helps you define your ideal customers, coordinate your messaging, and position your product for launch. A

In GTM, you aim to find a winning intercept between the needs of the target audience (called a minimal viable segment, or MVS) and your solution (call

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Build In Public University15
Leo Guinan

As an example: my book, nothing about it sucked. There was no pain. Sometimes I would get stuck on a word or paragraph, but I would just take a break

I still did have to go through some “suck” but it wasn’t the actions I was avoiding, it was the emotions I was avoiding

Maybe that's where the new scarcity lies - in the capacity for genuine human experience and connection.

“Wotan, the All-Father, understood that violence without wisdom leads to destruction, while wisdom without violence remains impotent. To gain true kno

Friendship Training Camp6
Leo Guinan

Friendships provide a safe place to be vulnerable, uncomfortable, ask “stupid questions,” and genuinely contribute to each other’s development, empath

Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another: ‘What? You too? I thought I was the only one.’”—C. S. Lewis

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature. Ralph Waldo Emerson

This was a table of 8 people: 5 people who had known each other for over 20 years. Then there were 2 of us who had known one of them for a few years.

Thinking Through Things Thursday1
Leo Guinan

Creation is a messy process. You don't know how long it's gonna take. You don't know exactly what it's gonna look like in the end. All you know is tha

Technical Tutorial Tuesday0
Leo Guinan

"I want to take this information and store it somewhere, then basically cut it up into the most notable parts and distribute it out. What I'm creating

Glitch1
Leo Guinan

Sublime: To rebuild the joy of code in a world optimized for everything but. We're bringing back the weird, human touch that made us fall in love with

Make the Internet Weird Again8
Leo Guinan

Many manifestos—and humans, for that matter—end up consumed by one or the other as they grasp at certainty and control.

Bridge energy, therefore, is the capacity to hold the old and new stories simultaneously, then choosing to dance between them in the present moment. B

The Rise of SNARFSNARF stands for Stakes/Novelty/Anger/Retention/Fear. SNARF is the kind of content that evolves when a platform asks an AI to maximiz

Sublime: To rebuild the joy of code in a world optimized for everything but. We're bringing back the weird, human touch that made us fall in love with

Examples of good vibe marketing0
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