Leo Guinan
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Leo Guinan
Perhaps I could lean into my weirdness and curiosity, and earn a living from a small group of similarly curious weirdos. It felt like the permission slip I needed to give it a shot.
All That Remains
Sometimes we still need permission in the permissionless economy
Believing in magic can be an irresponsible thing to do if it leads you to disengage from your material responsibilities– but if you’re a responsible person trying to get meaningful work done, and there’s a real possibility that something wonderful could happen and make everything tremendously better, it’s worth making a little space for, isn’t it?
if i'm honest with myself
Be magical
Your financial reality can shift dramatically in a short period of time and often due to things outside of your control.
Designing Your Own Infinite Game In The Creator Economy - Boundless
New Institutions and
Does this have to be true?
So this is not going to be fun 13 years, but it’s not going to be entirely bleak either.
every story is a degrowth story
This is a very bleak look at things, and I believe won’t age well. I predict that most of his biggest concerns will be alleviated in the next 2-3 years, because if we don’t, I think we won’t make it past those
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.
This was a table of 8 people: 5 people who had known each other for over 20 years. Then there were 2 of us who had known one of them for a few years. And there was a new friend we’d had for a day.
And our newest friend made an observation that perfectly expressed what I was feeling in that moment, amidst a group of incredibly tight friends who had... See more
And our newest friend made an observation that perfectly expressed what I was feeling in that moment, amidst a group of incredibly tight friends who had... See more
Engineering Friendship
Belonging
it seems that I’ll probably succeed financially a little less
Paul Millerd • Designing Your Own Infinite Game In The Creator Economy - Boundless
This shouldn’t be true. Success financially should be a choice, not an outcome.
It is never about winning. It is never about losing. It is only about contributing. It is only about learning.
Brian Collins • 101 Design Rules
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.