Leo Guinan
@leoguinan
Leo Guinan
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
ChatGPT
From linear time to multidimensional time
The structure of games is not that the points are valuable, but that the attempt to get those points, the attempts to win the game and the game’s terms sculpt some kind of interesting or beautiful activity.
New York Times • A Philosophy of Games That Is Really a Philosophy of Life
performative displays of expertise
Business Poetry
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
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.
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.
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
the only occasion on which man realizes his complete humanity by giving full “play” to both sides of his twofold nature, thinking and feeling.
Bob Black • The Abolition of Work
The best builders in public, imhro, are those that are authentic, transparent and educational. It does take practice and support to get there though. It's a scary thing to do. More people would get to that point with a better support system.
Rosieland • Building in community
Work is a waste of my time. The things that I’m best at, that I get the most benefit from, and see the most big-picture results from, don’t feel like work.
Nicholas Goodey • Resistance and Embracing Your Nature
“Work” is wasting energy, because energy goes down. But the truly valuable things make energy go up.