Leo Guinan

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High-quality access to information : social technologies that help people form high-quality opinions about important topics in an adversarial environment. I personally am bullish on prediction markets and Community Notes; you may have a different take on the solutions, but the point is that this topic is important.

Vitalik Buterin • Against Choosing Your Political Allegiances Based on Who Is "Pro-Crypto"

Economics of Human Energy and Abundant Systems

We need ways to filter, validate, and value large amounts of information. Traditionally, this has been limited to the wealthy in the form of “experts”

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

Beauty

Damn, this hits deep. I love this so much.

Find a cash business that pays the bills (and then some), but only invest enough time to keep it humming .

Nat Eliason • Fast Cash vs. Slow Equity

Human Insurance

This is basically the idea at the core of Human Insurance, and is trivial at scale.

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.

Introduction to Abundant Systems

Engineering Generosity and Abundant Systems

System timelines - short-term scarcity vs long-term abundance

Words shape our ideas, how we see the world, and how we relate to one another. As design teacher and researcher Anne Galloway says:

“Language doesn’t just make things—it assembles, cobbles together, entire worlds and all the relations within.”

Language makes it possible for us to navigate places and relationships; to express needs and requirements;... See more

Nicole Fenton • Words as Material

Language and Thought

Language is a mechanism of assembly

You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help enough other people get what they want.” ~ Zig Ziglar.

Engineering Generosity

Give before getting

Being good at reciprocity means knowing your friend well enough to know what kinds of things will contribute to them feeling loved and valued.

Kat Vellos • We Should Get Together: The Secret to Cultivating Better Friendships

Engineering Generosity

Trust and friendship

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.

Introduction to Abundant Systems

Abundant Systems and Engineering Generosity

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

Winning vs. Losing

Choose the game you are playing if you want to win