Leo Guinan
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Leo Guinan
Creativity needs time to bloom
Reset or decay status indicators: One aggressive measure to battle status concentrations is to have every status indicator decay over time – a deflationary measure for your status indicators.For example, karma that decays the more you stay away from the network or losing followers over time (especially if you have gained a lot of followers from... See more
Sriram Krishnan • Status Traps: Learning from Web2 Social Networks - a16z crypto
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.
Many people who don’t survive the Beowulf arc
every story is a degrowth story
Nobody survives the Beowulf arc
Being good at reciprocity means knowing your friend well enough to know what kinds of things will contribute to them feeling loved and valued.
Kat Vellos • We Should Get Together: The Secret to Cultivating Better Friendships
Trust and friendship
Bridge energy , therefore, is the capacity to hold the old and new stories simultaneously, then choosing to dance between them in the present moment. Bridge energy is pragmatic, grounded, earthy, gracious. It's a sense of responsibility. When we embody bridge energy, we acknowledge that every breath we take, every action, every word, is a chance to... See more
manifesto energy
This is where we can use nostalgia. Bringing the past into the present, finding the stories that people value and bringing them forward into a new age. The past coming forth into the present in order to unlock a brighter future.
To take only one Roman example, Cicero said that “whoever gives his labor for money sells himself and puts himself in the rank of slaves.”
Bob Black • The Abolition of Work
These two modes have drastically unequal visibility from the outside, which means if you had an equal amount of suffering between men and women in a society of traditional gender roles, this would look like a society in which women suffer more.
Aella • Blame Game Theory - by Aella - Knowingless
every failure is my fault and it’s up to me to fix those failures
Leo Guinan • The Biggest Obstacle To Scaling Creativity
Useful falsehoods