Leo Guinan
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Leo Guinan
- On the other hand—and I think this the crux of the matter and the revolutionary new departure—we have to take what useful work remains and transform it into a pleasing variety of game-like and craft-like pastimes, indistinguishable from other pleasurable pastimes except that they happen to yield useful end-products.
from The Abolition of Work by Bob Black
- I like the term economism . It describes how economic thinking and practice have become ingrained into all sorts of aspects of our lives, even non-economic ones. In today’s world governed by economism , everything seems to need to be measured by economic logic: am I using my time efficiently?
from Rabbit Holes 🕳️ #78
Haven’t heard this term before, but I think it follows from the collapse of things into measurements. We started with measuring money as a collapse of information, and that led to collapses of other aspects of the world as a proxy for money where money isn’t available to measure value.
- Creation could become recreation.
from The Abolition of Work by Bob Black
- scarce systems do what is most likely to succeed right now, because tomorrow isn’t guaranteed. Abundant systems assume that tomorrow will be there, so it’s ok to focus on longer term goals.
from Introduction to Abundant Systems
Engineering Generosity and Abundant Systems
System timelines - short-term scarcity vs long-term abundance
- Cooperation is the winning strategy in the Great Online Game.
from The Cooperation Economy 🤝 by Packy McCormick
This is the key to abundant systems - it’s the optimal strategy.
- Perhaps the most counterintuitive truth of the universe is that the more you give to others, the more you’ll get. Understanding this is the beginning of wisdom.
from 68 Bits of Unsolicited Advice by Kevin Kelly
- But the thing is, more and more of life is structured like a game. Increasingly, corporations, institutions, governments have begun to understand how powerful this way of transforming and shaping our agency, our behavior is. And so social media is structured like a game. Our school and work lives are structured around points, ratings, grades, metri... See more
from A Philosophy of Games That Is Really a Philosophy of Life by New York Times
- You can't win as much money if you sit at a table with small blinds. You'll get cleaned out if you sit at a table with players much better than you. To have the best result, you need to find a table where the stakes are high enough to be worth playing and where you have a chance of winning against the other players.
from Choose Your Table Wisely by Infinite Play
Choose the game you are playing if you want to win
Now that I've won a slam, I know something very few people on earth are permitted to know. A win doesn't feel as good as a loss feels bad, and the good feeling doesn't last long as the bad. Not even close.
from Open: An Autobiography by Andre Agassi
The pain of losing > the joy of winning