Leo Guinan
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Leo Guinan
Yet, one of the superpowers of connected technologies - networks - is that they will remove scarcity if at all possible. Connected networks by definition make things abundant that were once scarce.
Andy Weissman • On art and business and context and mirrors
This isn’t actually true by default. Networks of scarce systems end up creating winner take all situations from abundance.
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?
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.
If a commons is being managed successfully, individuals feel like they're getting back more than they're putting in, that the thing is more than the sum of its parts, that running it together means we have something more powerful than any of us could on our own.
Divya Siddarth • Building Capacity for Exit to Community
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.”
Our Centaur Future - A RADAR Report
Damn, this hits deep. I love this so much.
“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 being robbed blind in a crooked game of faro. George Devol, who was, like Canada Bill, not a man who was averse to fleecing the odd sucker, drew Bill aside and asked him if he couldn't see that the... See more
A quote from American Gods
A new idea can be spread quickly if someone can explain it and communicate it to others before they have to discover it themselves. But the chief advantage of language is not communication but autogeneration. Language is a trick that allows the mind to question itself; a magic mirror that reveals to the mind what the mind thinks; a handle that... See more
Kevin Kelly • What Technology Wants
how can we use language to spread things faster? use language as tool for mind to question itself
Most people are creatures of habit and comfort. We don't want to take unnecessary risks, which may involve time, effort, or even ridicule from other people.The safest choice is usually to stick with the status quo.But as a creator, we are constantly trying to compel people to take some sort of action – which means we are inviting them to take risk.... See more
Jay Clouse • How to look more legitimate
it's important we don't rush.
Divya Siddarth • Building Capacity for Exit to Community
Things need to evolve on the timelines that information is returned.
1. Energy Production: This involves how the brain cells, or neurons, produce energy. Neurons are highly active cells that require a constant supply of energy. This energy is primarily produced through oxidative phosphorylation, a process similar to what happens in other body cells, where glucose and oxygen are used to produce ATP (adenosine... See more
Anne-Laure Le Cunff • Neuroenergetics: Your Brain’s Energy Budgeting System
What gives us energy? Can use feelings to gain a better understanding of what increases our individual energy levels.