Leo Guinan
@leoguinan
Leo Guinan
something my six year old said today:
a tongue has no bones but it can break hearts
a tongue has no bones but it can break hearts
sari azout • Tweet
Freelancing is one of the best ways to make money in a strong economy, but it’s also one of the quickest things to disappear when companies are cutting costs.
Paul Millerd • Designing Your Own Infinite Game In The Creator Economy - Boundless
New Institutions and
This seems to imply that creating the impression of a strong economy is a self-fulfilling prophecy that creates more work.
Reset or decay status indicators: One aggressive measure to battle status concentrations is to have every status indicator decay over time – a deflationary measure for your status indicators.For example, karma that decays the more you stay away from the network or losing followers over time (especially if you have gained a lot of followers from... See more
Sriram Krishnan • Status Traps: Learning from Web2 Social Networks - a16z crypto
Instead of competing in the algorithmic feeds, create the content that is the most uniquely yours. Create the content you are interested in creating. Share your story. Share what is uniquely you. Fuck the algorithm.
Leo Guinan • The Build In Public Manifesto
The Problem With Measuring The Outcomes of Systems
Down with the algorithm
the peaks of shame and grandiosity
The Source 🌊
the past telling us we are bad for not conforming to the safety of rules that no longer apply and the future pulling us toward a state that we know surely must exist somewhere, and we’ve just got to get to it, then we’ll be safe.
All we know is that we aren’t safe now. And all we want to be is safe.
While computing power grows in exponential leaps, the pace of transition to a green economy that would cleanly fuel that growth lags far behind.
noemamag.com • Will AI Bring Plentitude or Further Imperil the Planet? | NOEMA
Abundant Systems and Engineering Generosity
Incentive structures don’t map to ultimate high-value results
We may live in an age of abundance, but with our sense of self tied to the proprietorship of rivalrous assets, scarcity will need to exist. Even if we must code it ourselves.
Mario Gabriele • Scarcity as an API
Abundant systems remove the need for this.
Similar to Zhang Yiming, Mark Zuckerberg doesn’t care very much about the content on his platforms and is much more interested in technology and AI.
Jonah Peretti • The Anti-SNARF Manifesto
Boom. This is the issue.