Leo Guinan
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Leo Guinan
Freelancing is one of the best ways to make money in a strong economy, but it’s also one of the quickest things to disappear when companies are cutting costs.
Paul Millerd • Designing Your Own Infinite Game In The Creator Economy - Boundless
New Institutions and
This seems to imply that creating the impression of a strong economy is a self-fulfilling prophecy that creates more work.
There is a lonely absurdity in the idea of racing against the clock at the end of time,
Jenny Odell • Saving Time
This feels painfully right
But on Twitter, if you tweet something out and one lone person out there— it moves them, it changes them, it changes their world— that’s not going to register. What that’s going to look like is your tweet got one lonely like and you’re going to feel like a failure. And one of the interesting things about this experience is the process of... See more
New York Times • A Philosophy of Games That Is Really a Philosophy of Life
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.
Intriguingly, this effect was not dose-dependent within the range tested: even a low psychoactive dose produced nearly the same time dilation as a higher dose
ChatGPT
hmm….weed has a set amount of dilation, which is something I seem to be able to depend on.
Evolution toward abundance
You can't win as much money if you sit at a table with small blinds. You'll get cleaned out if you sit at a table with players much better than you. To have the best result, you need to find a table where the stakes are high enough to be worth playing and where you have a chance of winning against the other players.
Infinite Play • Choose Your Table Wisely
Choose the game you are playing if you want to win
Instagram ad. Note the callout to who and what that are clear to hook scrollers in.
Visualization more broadly is a very important part of the Hoffman process. They mention the study where three different control groups shoot free throws and then do three different things over 30 days and shoot free throws again. The first group does nothing for 30 days. The second group shoots free throws for 30 minutes a day for 30 days. The... See more
My Hoffman Process Experience
Simulations are powerful