Leo Guinan
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Leo Guinan
- Confidence is a necessary ingredient for success in any area of life. So is humility, but if you’re not careful, humility can morph into a kind of imposter syndrome that stops you in your tracks.
from (Con)fidence Man
Humility in actions and language can lead to imposter syndrome in thoughts
- The chief challenge, as Lee sees it, is how to make AI smarter without just throwing more data and computing power at it. His hope rests on the iterative tweaking of algorithms that improve the performance of AI at a “geometric pace.”
from Will AI Bring Plentitude or Further Imperil the Planet? | NOEMA by noemamag.com
Abundant Systems and Engineering Generosity
This is the goal of subminds
- A Harvard psychologist once asked Amos Tversky why he became a psychologist. “It’s hard to know how people select a course in life,” he said. “The big choices we make are practically random. The small choices tell us more about who we are. Which field we go into may depend on which high school teacher we happen to meet. Who we marry may depend on w... See more
from SIX at 6: The Seemingly Frivolous, Reading A Tongue, Experiencing A Spoon, Authenticating Paintings, The Systematic Choices, and Great Revelations
The small decisions are incredibly important for revealing big things
But you can’t optimize systems in a context that’s changing, especially if it’s changing in unpredictable ways. Removing inefficiencies when circumstances are as anticipated means that there isn’t much slack in the system to respond when the unanticipated happens. Optimization is intrinsically brittle , because it’s about closely matching the outpu
... See morefrom Against Optimization by Mandy Brown
Optimization of scarce systems is about past measurement. Optimization of abundant systems is about future outcomes.
- When a Collective joins a Fiscal Host, they get a clear service: we'll hold your money, you don't have to go get a bank account and form your own legal entity, we're going to take care of some really annoying paperwork stuff for you, and we'll give you this nice online tool that lets you share your budget transparently and pay your expenses. On the... See more
from Building Capacity for Exit to Community by Divya Siddarth
Abundant System Example
- Believing in magic can be an irresponsible thing to do if it leads you to disengage from your material responsibilities– but if you’re a responsible person trying to get meaningful work done, and there’s a real possibility that something wonderful could happen and make everything tremendously better, it’s worth making a little space for, isn’t it?
from if i'm honest with myself
Be magical
- Over time, plenitude is a process in which more and more goods and services are provided to more and more people, as technologies advance and costs come down to grant new free ‘indulgences’ every year.
from Will AI Bring Plentitude or Further Imperil the Planet? | NOEMA by noemamag.com
Engineering Generosity and Abundant Systems
I love this idea
- 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.”
from Our Centaur Future - A RADAR Report
Damn, this hits deep. I love this so much.
- Whilst this has been written from the perspective of Building in Public which is very much a creator and founder thing. We need to understand that the Building in Public movement is really just a 'grow in public' movement.
from Building in community by Rosieland