Leo Guinan

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Unlike other products of consumption, creativity is not a scarcity market, and writers have two main upsides to shared creativity:It helps them come up with new ideas - Because creativity doesn't strike in a snap of a finger, writers can't rely solely on their imagination for consistent content creation. They can't perceive the world in new ways... See more

Eliot Couvat • What Decentralized Media Means To The Future of Digital Writing

Fast learns, slow remembers. Fast proposes, slow disposes. Fast is discontinuous, slow is continuous. Fast and small instructs slow and big by accrued innovation and by occasional revolution. Slow and big controls small and fast by constraint and constancy. Fast gets all our attention, slow has all the power.

Stewart Brand • Pace Layering: How Complex Systems Learn and Keep Learning

Time

both forms needed in order to integrate noise and then determine signal over time.

Like most social and political theory, the story Hobbes and his successors told was really unacknowledged autobiography.

Bob Black • The Abolition of Work

Language and Thought

"when the data and anecdotes disagree, the anecdotes are usually right. it’s not that the data is miscollected, it’s that you’re not measuring the right thing"

Jeff Bezos on the Lex Fridman podcast

The future

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

Economics of Human Energy and

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.

Unions and management agree that we ought to sell the time of our lives in exchange for survival, although they haggle over the price.

Bob Black • The Abolition of Work

Damn. Bars.

High-quality access to information : social technologies that help people form high-quality opinions about important topics in an adversarial environment. I personally am bullish on prediction markets and Community Notes; you may have a different take on the solutions, but the point is that this topic is important.

Vitalik Buterin • Against Choosing Your Political Allegiances Based on Who Is "Pro-Crypto"

Economics of Human Energy and Abundant Systems

We need ways to filter, validate, and value large amounts of information. Traditionally, this has been limited to the wealthy in the form of “experts”

björk said that trying to communicate through talking feels like trying to put the ocean through a straw

Language and Thought

Example - Energy requirements of communication.

"Your boos mean nothing, I've seen what makes you cheer" is actually an excellent and life-affirming attitude

Divya Venn • Tweet

Human Insurance and

This is incredible