Leo Guinan
@leoguinan
Leo Guinan
Curse of Knowledge : The inability to communicate your ideas because you wrongly assume others have the necessary background to understand what you’re talking about.
Morgan Housel • 100 Little Ideas
Learn to simplify if you want to connect.
The first step of any meaningful pursuit is to severely underestimate its difficulty.
Sara Hooker • Tweet
It’s gonna be harder than you think, but that’s a feature, not a bug.
For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
Maud Muller, by John Greenleaf Whittier
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Future
The multiverse is formed from our regrets.
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
On the other hand—and I think this the crux of the matter and the revolutionary new departure—we have to take what useful work remains and transform it into a pleasing variety of game-like and craft-like pastimes, indistinguishable from other pleasurable pastimes except that they happen to yield useful end-products.
Bob Black • The Abolition of Work
“The best way to be superhuman is to do things that you love with other people who love them, too.” - Cory Doctorow, Walkaway
WORLDBUILDING: Multiplayer collaging the future
Beauty and
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The economy ranks as the most important of 22 issues that U.S. registered voters say will influence their choice for president. It is the only issue on which a majority of voters, 52%, say the candidates’ positions on it are an “extremely important” influence on their vote. Another 38% of voters rate the economy as “very important,” which means the... See more
Megan Brenan • Economy Most Important Issue to 2024 Presidential Vote
Pre-election, most voters signal the economy as important.
None of us are saints, but we can all try to be better. Each time you do something generous, you're shaping yourself into someone who's more likely to be generous next time, and that matters.
Ted Chiang • Exhalation: Stories
Generosity is self-perpetuating
We often think of language as a means to an end, but rarely take the time to consider whether language in itself is influencing our thoughts, not just enabling the sharing of them.
Steph Smith • Gaining Perspective Through Untranslatable Words
Does language influence our thoughts? How can we minimize (or maximize) that influence?