Leo Guinan

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Looking at quantitative vs. qualitative effects: stimulants and simple sedatives primarily cause quantitative changes in timing (people err in one direction on interval tasks, but they generally still understand that time is flowing). Psychedelics, cannabis, and dissociatives often add a qualitative layer – users report that their entire... See more

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Human Perception of Time

From linear time to multidimensional time

Instagram ad. Note the callout to who and what that are clear to hook scrollers in.

Creation could become recreation.

Bob Black • The Abolition of Work

Beauty

There was a time in our own past when the “work ethic” would have been incomprehensible, and perhaps Weber was on to something when he tied its appearance to a religion, Calvinism, which if it emerged today instead of four centuries ago would immediately and appropriately be labeled a cult.

Bob Black • The Abolition of Work

Language and Thought

Friendship is powerful. The strength of its bond has the ability to get past everything that seems to be important and find the things that are truly important. Those things are never external. They always deal with the spirit. They are shared values and goals. Friendship is about who you truly are, not who you appear to be.

Jonathan Jenkins • Becoming God's Friend: Understanding Your Growth from Servant to Friend

Friendship Training Camp

I was unwilling to be trapped by something that looked successful on the outside, but felt like shit on the inside.

All That Remains

Economics of Human Energy

Alignment matters the most

“Infinite-minded leaders understand that “best” is not a permanent state. Instead, they strive to be “better.” “Better” suggests a journey of constant improvement and makes us feel like we are being invited to contribute our talents and energies to make progress in that journey.”

-Simon Sinek

Economics of Human Energy

Constant improvement, gains of energy via better efficiency

I see time to be directly linked to attention. You can fuse with your surroundings (archaic time), lock into one object (magical time/flow/addiction), orient around events, narrative or cycles (mythical time), or obsess over budgeting hours and minutes (rational time). The idea of escaping rational time and realizing “I am time” is liberating, and

Time

Coordinated time is only necessary because of the systems we’ve created.

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

Economics of Human Energy and

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.