Leo Guinan
@leoguinan
Leo Guinan
Money is an important heuristic for groups to measure their capacity to support their work properly and not burn people out. Money is not the be all end all, but people get really put off by how it's been so co-opted by the capitalist, extractive system that we're trying to escape. My theory of change is, instead of running away from it, we need to... See more
Divya Siddarth • Building Capacity for Exit to Community
Unions and management agree that we ought to sell the time of our lives in exchange for survival, although they haggle over the price.
Bob Black • The Abolition of Work
Damn. Bars.
We often think of language as a means to an end, but rarely take the time to consider whether language in itself is influencing our thoughts, not just enabling the sharing of them.
Steph Smith • Gaining Perspective Through Untranslatable Words
Does language influence our thoughts? How can we minimize (or maximize) that influence?
the only occasion on which man realizes his complete humanity by giving full “play” to both sides of his twofold nature, thinking and feeling.
Bob Black • The Abolition of Work
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
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. And there was a new friend we’d had for a day.
And our newest friend made an observation that perfectly expressed what I was feeling in that moment, amidst a group of incredibly tight friends who had... See more
And our newest friend made an observation that perfectly expressed what I was feeling in that moment, amidst a group of incredibly tight friends who had... See more
Engineering Friendship
Belonging
Games can therefore be understood as imagination infrastructures—engines for imaginative engagement. There are so many games out there these days, endless virtual worlds, that the utopian potential of this medium to break far beyond the limited possibilities for collective imagination in “normal” society also seems endless.
What does it look like... See more
What does it look like... See more
Rahel Aima • Imagination Infrastructuring for Real and Virtual Worlds
Games of imagination are the cheapest way to explore future possibilities
For better thinking, stop thinking.
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... See more