Leo Guinan
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Leo Guinan
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
First, there’s the energy of the old story . It’s animated by a clear-eyed awareness of the injustice and suffering woven through the status quo. Old story energy is fire, anger, urgency, compassion. It’s what emerges when the veil is lifted on the inner workings of our disquiet, and you see what you’re fighting against. You’ve met the enemy, and... See more
manifesto energy
This is the old economic models, the value of money over people, the value of data over beauty. Banks and insurance companies profiting on the suffering of people. Making everything look the same. Like money.
By the simplification-as-collapse theory, good futures, ones worth working for, are by definition going to be too complex to be legible before we’ve actually lived through them. If you tell your story in a powerful, inspiring, coherent way that millions resonate with, and cannot see in what way your story invisibly features degrowth and collapse,... See more
every story is a degrowth story
What we value and Economics of Human Energy
Ok, I think I see where he’s going. But I think there’s also a possibility of a counter narrative that can re-write the degrowth one in terms of growth.
Despite my tendency to procrastinate, I’ve gotten (mostly) good at not being late for things because I spend a lot of my energy trying to not let other people down.
TRUSTWORTHY TRUST
How much energy is lost for the sake of trying to maintain some level of “adulting”?
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.
Good use of attention up the chain of society is rewarded. Bad use of it is punished. This system creates “sustainable marketing pathways”, a kind of information highway.
How do we bootstrap the Open Research Institute?
Memetic Foundations of Human Value and Reactions to Defender
The problem with this system is that it can be self-referential and lead to people who are trying to use attention well not being able to capture enough attention to bring resources to fix a large problem. We need better recognition systems instead of self-reporting ones.
Cooperation is the winning strategy in the Great Online Game.
Packy McCormick • The Cooperation Economy 🤝
This is the key to abundant systems - it’s the optimal strategy.
The faster the experimentation cycles, the faster the learning, the more of an advantage you have over established people and companies.
Leo Guinan • The Build In Public Manifesto
speed wins
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.