Leo Guinan
@leoguinan
Leo Guinan
It is never about winning. It is never about losing. It is only about contributing. It is only about learning.
Brian Collins • 101 Design Rules
Becase this freedom comes at a cost - in fact you'll probably need to die a little death.
It does get easier
The cost of freedom
It was my favorite way to escape until I stopped wanting to escape and I wanted to build a world around myself that I don’t need to escape from.
Corderosa Amada Kugla • Tweet
Build a world you don’t need to escape from
Instead of competing in the algorithmic feeds, create the content that is the most uniquely yours. Create the content you are interested in creating. Share your story. Share what is uniquely you. Fuck the algorithm.
Leo Guinan • The Build In Public Manifesto
The Problem With Measuring The Outcomes of Systems
Down with the algorithm
The structure of games is not that the points are valuable, but that the attempt to get those points, the attempts to win the game and the game’s terms sculpt some kind of interesting or beautiful activity.
New York Times • A Philosophy of Games That Is Really a Philosophy of Life
First, there’s the energy of the old story . It’s animated by a clear-eyed awareness of the injustice and suffering woven through the status quo. Old story energy is fire, anger, urgency, compassion. It’s what emerges when the veil is lifted on the inner workings of our disquiet, and you see what you’re fighting against. You’ve met the enemy, and... See more
manifesto energy
This is the old economic models, the value of money over people, the value of data over beauty. Banks and insurance companies profiting on the suffering of people. Making everything look the same. Like money.
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
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.
Creativity is not a process. creativity is not scripted.
One of the most salient traits of creative visionaries like Walt Disney and Steve jobs is the absence of process.
Process is an organized way of doing things. But they didn’t have a process. They just did the work. No strict adherence to budget or timelines. Just figure things out on the fly.
... See moreCreativity timelines aren’t predictable, so why do we try to put creative professions into timelines?
One of my favorite quotes from Bobby Knight is: "The key is not the will to win...everybody has that. It is the will to prepare to win that is important" Everybody has the will to win. People don't have the will to practice.
Bill Gurley • "Runnin' Down a Dream: How to Succeed and Thrive in a Career You Love"
will to practice > the will to win