Leo Guinan

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But you can’t optimize systems in a context that’s changing, especially if it’s changing in unpredictable ways. Removing inefficiencies when circumstances are as anticipated means that there isn’t much slack in the system to respond when the unanticipated happens. Optimization is intrinsically brittle , because it’s about closely matching the

Mandy Brown • Against Optimization

Abundant Systems

Optimization of scarce systems is about past measurement. Optimization of abundant systems is about future outcomes.

High-quality access to information : social technologies that help people form high-quality opinions about important topics in an adversarial environment. I personally am bullish on prediction markets and Community Notes; you may have a different take on the solutions, but the point is that this topic is important.

Vitalik Buterin • Against Choosing Your Political Allegiances Based on Who Is "Pro-Crypto"

Economics of Human Energy and Abundant Systems

We need ways to filter, validate, and value large amounts of information. Traditionally, this has been limited to the wealthy in the form of “experts”

something my six year old said today:

a tongue has no bones but it can break hearts

sari azout • Tweet

Stories We Tell Ourselves and Language and Thought

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

Abundant Systems

Better systems win. Don’t need to destroy existing systems, build better ones and the others will die in time.

All I can control is how present, open, and accepting I am to what is happening now.

what's minnow been up to?

Beauty

Welcome the now

Curse of Knowledge : The inability to communicate your ideas because you wrongly assume others have the necessary background to understand what you’re talking about.

Morgan Housel • 100 Little Ideas

Language and Thought

Learn to simplify if you want to connect.

I see time to be directly linked to attention. You can fuse with your surroundings (archaic time), lock into one object (magical time/flow/addiction), orient around events, narrative or cycles (mythical time), or obsess over budgeting hours and minutes (rational time). The idea of escaping rational time and realizing “I am time” is liberating, and

Time

Coordinated time is only necessary because of the systems we’ve created.

The Rise of SNARF

SNARF stands for Stakes/Novelty/Anger/Retention/Fear. SNARF is the kind of content that evolves when a platform asks an AI to maximize usage. Content creators need to please the AI algorithms or they become irrelevant. Millions of creators make SNARF content to stay in the feed and earn a living.

Jonah Peretti • The Anti-SNARF Manifesto

MIWA and

This is one of the battles we are fighting. Kill SNARF with fire.

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