Leo Guinan
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Leo Guinan
Kindness isn’t always easy or obvious, because the urgent race to the bottom, to easily measured metrics and to scarcity, can distract us. But bending the arc toward justice, toward dignity and toward connection is our best way forward.
Seth Godin • Three types of kindness
Engineering Generosity and Abundant Systems
Seth has a lot of good ideas on this. Should tie in to his ideas more.
Unlike other products of consumption, creativity is not a scarcity market, and writers have two main upsides to shared creativity:It helps them come up with new ideas - Because creativity doesn't strike in a snap of a finger, writers can't rely solely on their imagination for consistent content creation. They can't perceive the world in new ways... See more
Eliot Couvat • What Decentralized Media Means To The Future of Digital Writing
long vs short term winning
Curse of Knowledge : The inability to communicate your ideas because you wrongly assume others have the necessary background to understand what you’re talking about.
Morgan Housel • 100 Little Ideas
Learn to simplify if you want to connect.
Algorithms are simply subsystems of the companies that create them, so when we want to examine the systems we use and are a part of, it is an extremely helpful lens to use.
Introduction to Abundant Systems
Algorithms can be analyzed through the lens of systems
You can't win as much money if you sit at a table with small blinds. You'll get cleaned out if you sit at a table with players much better than you. To have the best result, you need to find a table where the stakes are high enough to be worth playing and where you have a chance of winning against the other players.
Infinite Play • Choose Your Table Wisely
Choose the game you are playing if you want to win
Leo Guinan • The Memetic Foundation of Human Value - A New Economic Paradigm
Memetic Foundations of Human Value
The research predicts the need for Sublime
Questions are places in your mind where answers fit . If you haven’t asked the question, the answer has nowhere to go. It hits your mind and bounces right off. You have to ask the question — you have to want to know — in order to open up the space for the answer to fit. 1
Long Questions/Short Answers
It’s all about asking the right questions
We can't change the world by focusing only on dismantling, we have to really build up the alternative and show that it can work in a different way, and radicalize people, not through convincing them of the rightness of an ideology, but through their lived experience of true participation, of the collective power of livelihood in a non-capitalist... See more
Divya Siddarth • Building Capacity for Exit to Community
Better systems win. Don’t need to destroy existing systems, build better ones and the others will die in time.