Leo Guinan
@leoguinan
Leo Guinan
At large scales, average anything goes to zero.
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Future • Trust Economies - The Future of Social Networks
Damn, that’s a big truth.
Example - Energy requirements of communication.
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
This is basically the idea at the core of Human Insurance, and is trivial at scale.
Whether you are starting out or have been building in public for a long time, building in community can always create a valuable layer of depth and support that you can't get 'in public'.
Rosieland • Building in community
There is a lonely absurdity in the idea of racing against the clock at the end of time,
Jenny Odell • Saving Time
This feels painfully right
AI is aggregated human intelligence. So it’s better to call it collective intelligence than artificial intelligence.
Emphasizing the collectivity (something built on the commons) over the artificiality (a feat of technology) gives us an entire new way to see, perceive and relate to the technology.
-via Holly Herndon, in conversation with Ezra Klein
This is exactly what abundant systems try to do. It takes the individual efforts as part of the collective, not in isolation.
I could write an entire blog post on this point alone. In fact, I did earlier this year! I truly believe that obsessing over design is one of the two most common traits I see among successful creators.
Jay Clouse • How to look more legitimate
Our design expectations get higher every single day. And for better or worse, we associate trust with design.When we see something beautifully-designed, we are automatically more inclined to trust it. When we see something poorly-designed, we are inclined to NOT trust it.
Jay Clouse • How to look more legitimate
Evolution toward abundance