Leo Guinan

They value me as a resource, someone who GSD and makes things happen.

They value that I know how to do stuff, so they don’t have to.

But they don’t actually value who I am, what I stand for, or my potential to change the world.

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.

In a world of abundance, scarcity evolves. While pre-internet scarcity was about a physically constrained, or otherwise limited, number of resources, post-internet scarcity is about separating signal from noise.

Maybe that's where the new scarcity lies - in the capacity for genuine human experience and connection.

a scarce system is one in which there are limited resources and one person in the system getting those resources means that everyone else can’t have those same resources. A zero-sum game.

Discipline is what the factory and the office and the store share with the prison and the school and the mental hospital.

These two modes have drastically unequal visibility from the outside, which means if you had an equal amount of suffering between men and women in a society of traditional gender roles, this would look like a society in which women suffer more.

Getting found is about being findable.