Leo Guinan
@leoguinan
Leo Guinan
- “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
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- Reset or decay status indicators: One aggressive measure to battle status concentrations is to have every status indicator decay over time – a deflationary measure for your status indicators.For example, karma that decays the more you stay away from the network or losing followers over time (especially if you have gained a lot of followers from bei... See more
from Status Traps: Learning from Web2 Social Networks - a16z crypto by Sriram Krishnan
- While computing power grows in exponential leaps, the pace of transition to a green economy that would cleanly fuel that growth lags far behind.
from Will AI Bring Plentitude or Further Imperil the Planet? | NOEMA by noemamag.com
Abundant Systems and Engineering Generosity
Incentive structures don’t map to ultimate high-value results
- Isn’t that the desire of every heart? To be chosen ever so carefully by a pursuer of authentic beauty? To be cherished and allowed to be as one truly is, as one has been created to be before the pain of betrayal and selfish ambition.
To be known. Chosen. Always cherished. Often reread and appreciated for the unique creative work that it is.
No more.
N... See morefrom In the Quiet Library of the Heart: The Soulful Journey of Being Known by Kelly Gawitt
This hit deep
- So if you have large-scale bureaucracies that need to be organized and function coherently, then you need these kind of simple, nuance-free packets of information. And I think that’s one of the reasons we’ve seen this constant rise of simplified metrical analysis.
from A Philosophy of Games That Is Really a Philosophy of Life by New York Times
But you can’t optimize systems in a context that’s changing, especially if it’s changing in unpredictable ways. Removing inefficiencies when circumstances are as anticipated means that there isn’t much slack in the system to respond when the unanticipated happens. Optimization is intrinsically brittle , because it’s about closely matching the outpu
... See morefrom Against Optimization by Mandy Brown
Optimization of scarce systems is about past measurement. Optimization of abundant systems is about future outcomes.
- 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.
Curse of Knowledge : The inability to communicate your ideas because you wrongly assume others have the necessary background to understand what you’re talking about.
from 100 Little Ideas by Morgan Housel
Learn to simplify if you want to connect.
- Unions and management agree that we ought to sell the time of our lives in exchange for survival, although they haggle over the price.
from The Abolition of Work by Bob Black
Damn. Bars.