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#82 Sarah Drinkwater, Omidyar: Building a Movement for Responsible Technology

Podcast here: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5zb3VuZGNsb3VkLmNvbS91c2Vycy9zb3VuZGNsb3VkOnVzZXJzOjQ2Njg5NjY2L3NvdW5kcy5yc3M Rhys Lindmark: Hello listeners. Today I'm excited to chat with Sarah Drinkwater. Sarah is the Director of Responsible Technology at Omidyar Network and has supported

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#80 David Christian: How Big History Helps Us Understand Our Long Now

Podcast here. Rhys Lindmark: Today's episode is with David Christian. And David is one of the founders of Big History. And we have a great conversation about any and all things in Big

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#70 Benjamin Bratton: Social Theories for Planetary-Scale Computation

Podcast audio here. Rhys Lindmark: Today, I chat with Benjamin Bratton, who is an interdisciplinary academic at the forefront of how technology is changing society. And he wrote this brilliant book called The

book review

Book Review: "When Should Law Forgive?" by Martha Minow

“Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.” — Paul BoeseTo forgive or not forgive? That is the question. Should we forgive student debt, rent during COVID, and The Other

roote

Searching for a Roote Co-Founder

The goal of this article is to find a great co-founder (or two!) for my company, Roote. Please reach out if this interests you! I. What is Roote?On its surface, Roote is

politics

15 Lessons of Networked Democracy

We're still in the beginning stages of understanding the 2020 U.S. election specifically and Information Age elections more generally. We're growing out of our earlier years of internet election adolescence. We're maturing.

book review

Book Review: Cultural Evolution

More than 45 years ago, I argued in The Silent Revolution that "A transformation may be taking place in the political culture of advanced industrial societies. This transformation seems to be altering the

book

Remembering James Carse

James Carse, the author of Finite and Infinite Games, passed away last week. I want to remember his legacy by revisiting his book and the impact it had on us. I have three

psychology

Post-WEIRD Nacirema Psychology

From 2000-2200, the customs of the Nacirema tribe shifted considerably. At the start of the 21st century, they were leaders of a pan-capitalist ideological superstructure. But as the decades unfurled, their monolithic stature

book review

Book Review: "The WEIRDest People in the World" by Joseph Henrich

The cultural evolution of psychology is the dark matter that flows behind the scenes throughout history.Joseph Henrich is the world's leading scholar of cultural evolution. He released a brilliant book last week,

coherent pluralism

Does WAP Empower or Objectify Women?

AUTHOR NOTE: If you’re interested in these ideas, check out Roote—my online school for world-class systems thinkers.Cardi B (who I love) has a new song, WAP, which stands for wet-ass

meaning

How to Live a Meaningful Life

"We are too late for gods and too early for being." —HeideggerThe modern world is in a meaning crisis. "Traditional" sources of meaning (religion) are being rejected, but there's nothing to take their

roote

How 6 Frontier Movements Embody The Roote Paradigm

If you'd like to learn more about the Roote Paradigm, please check out Roote and apply to be a Roote Fellow by July 21. The goal of this article is to show how

paradigms

Defining Paradigms

What is a paradigm? They show up in many places as a "crucial concept", but are extremely abstract and difficult to grok. In today's article, I'll help you understand paradigms by defining their

personal

Reflecting On Grief: The Death of My Mom, George Floyd, and COVID

My mom passed away two weeks ago after a 10-year journey with Alzheimer's. I'm sad. Looking at her face makes me cry. I'm also sad about COVID deaths and George Floyd's homicide. (Indeed,

abundance

We Need To Talk: Marriage Counseling with Capitalism Itself

Writing by Rhys LindmarkIllustrations by Audra JacobiWe are viewing a relationship therapy session between HUMANITY, CAPITALISM, POST-CAPITALISM, and a THERAPIST. THERAPIST: Hello everyone. Welcome to today’s relationship therapy session. Humanity, how are

abundance

Abundance: Money

In our last two posts, we defined abundance, and looked at abundance in trust. Today, we'll look at abundance of money. Our outline: I. What is money? II. Abstracting money III. Abundance of

abundance

Abundance: Trust

In our last post Defining Abundance, we discussed: How abundance is created through abstraction. (Image: Black Box.)How an increase in quantity leads to an increase in quality, which we called "variable-quality abundance"

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Links [April 29, 2020]

NetworkismInfoFacebook to warn users who ‘liked’ coronavirus hoaxesThis Open-Source Program Deepfakes You During Zoom Meetings, in Real TimeTwitter creates specific rules for 5G misinfoSpeaking to someone from 2000 about our current sensemaking environmentEthan

abundance

Defining Abundance

Let's look at how humanity creates resource abundance, and how we should respond to it. We'll look at: I. How commoditization creates abundance II. How abundance increases both quantity and variation in quality

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Links [April 23, 2020]

NetworkismNetworked CapitalTwo link taxes 1, 2 (h/t Ben Evans). Link taxes will become more prevalent. Just like taxing data as oil, taxing links will happen. Will happen even more so as we

bentoism

Building Paradigms

This essay synthesizes responses to Marc Andreessen's recent piece: It's Time To Build. I'll explore "vetocracy" as a root cause problem in government and "diminishing bits space" as a fundamental constraint in tech.

Seeing Like a Networked Human Organism

This is part of the Write of Passage fellowship and was original posted on David Perell's website here. Marc Andreesen coined the term “software is eating the world” in a 2011 opinion piece

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Links [April 14, 2020]

Coherent PluralismGood snippet from FiveThirtyEight on our individual responsibility of sensemaking in a networked information ecosystem:Ultimately, the expert advice on masks is to get comfortable with not knowing the right answer. You

Our Post-Capitalist Response to COVID-19

Humanity's response to COVID-19 highlights protoexamples of our transition to Post-Capitalism. These four areas are: NetworkismCoherent PluralismBentoismGenerosityI've recorded a video about COVID and these four areas here: I look like a t-rexYou can