Leo Guinan
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Leo Guinan
Work makes a mockery of freedom.
Bob Black • The Abolition of Work
I still did have to go through some “suck” but it wasn’t the actions I was avoiding, it was the emotions I was avoiding
Paul Millerd • No, Everything Doesn't Have To Suck | #291
This is the trick right here
Efficiency doesn’t necessarily reduce our workload—it expands it. The more we’re capable of producing, the more we expect of ourselves and others. The more output becomes possible, the further the goalposts are moved on what is considered “enough.”
AI Turned Me Into a Content Agency of One
This statement is the key. The expectations grow with technology, and wages don’t grow with expectations. Wages are based on past values.
Kindness has unlimited upside.”
James Clear • 3 Ideas, 2 Quotes, 1 Question (December 26, 2019) | James Clear
Abundant Systems and Engineering Generosity
More proof of ideas
Ultimately, the non-transactional thing works on the basis of trust. You have to have trust first, before you can get that virtuous cycle going, because you have to start by giving and not knowing what you'll get back. It's something like an abundance mindset, trust in the community. But at the same time, if you give and you don't get meaningful... See more
Divya Siddarth • Building Capacity for Exit to Community
I don’t want to wait for the world to change.
I want to live it.
I want to live it.
How I’m Planning to Defeat Global Ecosystem Collapse (By Living the Alternative)
This is the secret to time travel. You have to be the first one to the be the example that others can follow.
Now that I've won a slam, I know something very few people on earth are permitted to know. A win doesn't feel as good as a loss feels bad, and the good feeling doesn't last long as the bad. Not even close.
Andre Agassi • Open: An Autobiography
The pain of losing > the joy of winning
Yet, one of the superpowers of connected technologies - networks - is that they will remove scarcity if at all possible. Connected networks by definition make things abundant that were once scarce.
Andy Weissman • On art and business and context and mirrors
This isn’t actually true by default. Networks of scarce systems end up creating winner take all situations from abundance.