Leo Guinan
@leoguinan
Leo Guinan
Becase this freedom comes at a cost - in fact you'll probably need to die a little death.
It does get easier
The cost of freedom
Generosity is not a loan to repay or a debt to settle. It's a gift to appreciate. Yes, you can reciprocate a favor by paying it back. But the best way to honor an act of kindness is by paying it forward.
No, you don't owe me a favor
Forward, not back
Things to enjoy about the rise
Seeing my words reflected back at me makes me happy
A scrub is a player who is handicapped by self-imposed rules that the game knows nothing about.
visakan veerasamy • a matryoshka of possibilities
Most rules aren’t actually rules, they are illusions we create for ourselves.
long vs short term winning
For better thinking, stop thinking.
It's hard to sit there complaining about paying money if you can see it costs $300 get the accountant to file that thing we need, and that the person you enjoy talking to gets paid this much. Seeing it all transparently is quite powerful.
Divya Siddarth • Building Capacity for Exit to Community
Money spent that goes to people you like makes it easier to spend money
As our productivity increases, our standards and expectations rise even faster, creating a psychological Jevons Paradox that threatens to consume our humanity in the pursuit of ever-greater output. We become victims of our own efficiency.
Tina He • Jevons Paradox: A personal perspective
Expectations grow faster than wages. Expectations grow at the speed of information, wages grow at the speed of prediction, and fast learners are exploited in the wage system, because they are doing more and more for less and less because the value of currency in terms of buying power is going down and people with wages aren’t paying attention to money at the same level of detail.
We can't change the world by focusing only on dismantling, we have to really build up the alternative and show that it can work in a different way, and radicalize people, not through convincing them of the rightness of an ideology, but through their lived experience of true participation, of the collective power of livelihood in a non-capitalist... See more
Divya Siddarth • Building Capacity for Exit to Community
Better systems win. Don’t need to destroy existing systems, build better ones and the others will die in time.