Leo Guinan
@leoguinan
Leo Guinan
Confidence is a necessary ingredient for success in any area of life. So is humility, but if you’re not careful, humility can morph into a kind of imposter syndrome that stops you in your tracks.
(Con)fidence Man
Humility in actions and language can lead to imposter syndrome in thoughts
This viewpoint may be overly ambitious, and may even — horrors! -- be somewhat wrong, but I have observed that many good ideas start out by claiming too much territory for themselves, and eventually, when they have received their fair share of attention and respect, the air clears and it emerges that, though still grand, they are not quite so grand... See more
Douglas R. Hofstadter • Analogy as the Core of Cognition
Need to remember this
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.
All I can control is how present, open, and accepting I am to what is happening now.
what's minnow been up to?
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AI is aggregated human intelligence. So it’s better to call it collective intelligence than artificial intelligence.
Emphasizing the collectivity (something built on the commons) over the artificiality (a feat of technology) gives us an entire new way to see, perceive and relate to the technology.
-via Holly Herndon, in conversation with Ezra Klein
This is exactly what abundant systems try to do. It takes the individual efforts as part of the collective, not in isolation.
They value me as a resource, someone who GSD and makes things happen.
They value that I know how to do stuff, so they don’t have to.
But they don’t actually value who I am, what I stand for, or my potential to change the world.
They value that I know how to do stuff, so they don’t have to.
But they don’t actually value who I am, what I stand for, or my potential to change the world.
Alicia Bonner • Why do you work?
The Problem With Measuring The Outcomes of Systems and Engineering Generosity
They valued the wrong things.
Endowment effect
Valuing an object more, only because you possess it.
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We are emotionally attached to things that we own. It makes sense: There’s an emotional investment in having made the decision, in shifting or cementing your identify as “a person who would have this object,” and how you believe that ownership will be perceived by others. ... See more
Valuing an object more, only because you possess it.
source
We are emotionally attached to things that we own. It makes sense: There’s an emotional investment in having made the decision, in shifting or cementing your identify as “a person who would have this object,” and how you believe that ownership will be perceived by others. ... See more
Jason Cohen • The Serengeti Plain Fallacy: Fallacies that aren't fallacies
This shows how value is an individual quality. In order to purchase something, you have to value it at or above the price.
The biggest factor that slows down a company is how much time and energy it takes to communicate goals and expectations.