Lucas Jackson

When in a maintenance phase, if there is no incentive to do things right (like put the laundry away instead of leaving it on the bed) neglect and rapid degeneration set in.

"Agency is a paradoxical product of mutual learning within and between people, nature, and culture." An individual both has a "unique perspective or epistemology" but also "there is no aspect of that entity that is uninfluenced, uninformed, or unbound to the larger contextual interactions."

Gnome mode is the opposite of goblin mode

Noise as intimation of future ordered states

Psychological ground for the need for curation:"- Zuckerberg’s Law, or the tendency to share more and more on social media over time -Dunbar’s number, or the average number of stable social relationships one can maintain at a given time (it’s around 150)-Zipf’s Law, which describes how in any system of resources there are a small number of items of... See more

"Goblin mode is the completely rundown, degenerate condition of normie striving in fully burned-out retreat. And it’s definitely real. The rates of burnout-induced quitting in big tech companies (and this during a period of rising wages) spiked last year."

Gnome mode isn't a return to pre-goblin mode. It is a total recalibration toward life.

We are all entangled in systems that both ensure our survival and destruction. The responsibilities that we place on institutions, such as big oil, big banks, big pharma, etc., does not lie within these institutions but within the linkings between them. "An institution is made of people, each with their own biographies, and it exists within communi... See more

"Curators are the new creators, and as consumers, we’re going to be willing to pay someone with good taste to help us sort through the ever-growing mass of information at our fingertips."

"... leadership is produced collectively in the community, not the individual. The individual’s responsibility is to be ready and willing to show up, serve, and then, most importantly, stand back. Leadership for this era is not a role or a set of traits; it’s a zone of interrelational process. Step in, step out."