Leo Guinan
@leoguinan
Leo Guinan
@leoguinan
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
... See moreOptimization of scarce systems is about past measurement. Optimization of abundant systems is about future outcomes.
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”
Better systems win. Don’t need to destroy existing systems, build better ones and the others will die in time.
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.
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
... See moreCoordinated time is only necessary because of the systems we’ve created.
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This is one of the battles we are fighting. Kill SNARF with fire.