Leo Guinan
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Leo Guinan
If this is true (I believe it is), why do companies focus on time management? Because it’s easier and time is shared, energy isn’t (at least, typically. But it can be if done properly…)
Free time is mostly devoted to getting ready for work, going to work, returning from work, and recovering from work. Free time is a euphemism for the peculiar way labor, as a factor of production, not only transports itself at its own expense to and from the workplace, but assumes primary responsibility for its own maintenance and repair.
Bob Black • The Abolition of Work
In a world of abundance, scarcity evolves. While pre-internet scarcity was about a physically constrained, or otherwise limited, number of resources, post-internet scarcity is about separating signal from noise.
Erik Torenberg • The Hunter Economy
Scarcity only evolves in a scarce system experiencing abundance. Abundance evolves in an abundant system experiencing abundance. In an abundant system experiencing scarcity, what happens? Current belief: abundance evolves from scarcity.
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.
The structure of games is not that the points are valuable, but that the attempt to get those points, the attempts to win the game and the game’s terms sculpt some kind of interesting or beautiful activity.
New York Times • A Philosophy of Games That Is Really a Philosophy of Life
I was unwilling to be trapped by something that looked successful on the outside, but felt like shit on the inside.
All That Remains
Alignment matters the most
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
Perhaps I could lean into my weirdness and curiosity, and earn a living from a small group of similarly curious weirdos. It felt like the permission slip I needed to give it a shot.
All That Remains
Sometimes we still need permission in the permissionless economy
a scarce system is one in which there are limited resources and one person in the system getting those resources means that everyone else can’t have those same resources. A zero-sum game.