podcast #90 César Hidalgo: How To Understand Sociotechnical Systems Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify Rhys Lindmark: Hello listeners. Today, I'm excited to chat with Cesar Hidalgo. Cesar is in the Chilean-Spanish-American scholar in economic complexity, data visualization, and applied artificial intelligence. He's
housing Abundant Housing Slogans The slogan "America is a melting pot" is a great slogan for ensuring that America accepts its changing demographics (through immigration). (It's not perfect, of course. We discriminate new immigrants—Irish in the
housing Building Abundant Housing in California I recently learned the political mechanism (and a possible theory of change) for how California can build abundant housing. SF currently has 900,000 people but only 1/3 the population density of
podcast #89 Grace Lindsay: Your Brain Is Math Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify Rhys Lindmark: Hello, listeners. Today, I'm excited to chat with Grace Lindsay. Grace is a computational neuroscientist who recently wrote the book, Models of the Mind: How Physics,
podcast #88 Andy Clark: How Brains Model The World Rhys Lindmark: Hello, listeners. Today, I'm excited to chat with Andy Clark. Andy is a British philosopher and a professor of cognitive philosophy at the University of Sussex. He's written some great books
abundance Non-Duplicative One of the Roote values is to be network-driven. This means that we're constantly aware of our role in a larger network of human progress. We stand on the shoulders of giants. It
abundance Compersion Compersion is when you feel happy for someone else's happiness. It comes from the polyamory community—feeling happy when your partner has great sex with someone else. Compersion is the self-domestication of competition
podcast #87 Casper ter Kuile: How Religion Is Changing Rhys Lindmark: Hello, listeners. Today, I’m excited to chat with Casper ter Kuile. Casper is helping build this beautiful world of joyful belonging in the midst of these enormous changes and how
neuroscience Predictive Processing Predictive processing is a theory of how our brain makes sense of the world. It says that "the brain is constantly generating and updating a mental model of the environment. The model is
podcast #85 Isabella Garcia-Camargo: Information Counterwarfare Google | Apple | Spotify Rhys Lindmark: Hello, listeners. Today, I'm excited to chat with Isabella Garcia-Camargo. Isabella works at Stanford Internet Observatory as a research analyst and is the project manager for two amazing
A Viral Is Content With Built-In Distribution There was a delightful conversation between Eugene Wei and Kevin Kwok recently where Eugene defined a meme as content with built-in distribution. Here's the 1min clip: I love this definition, though I would
podcast #84 adrienne marie brown: Decentralized Organizing and Emergent Strategy Podcast here. Rhys Lindmark: Hello listeners. Today, I'm excited to chat with adrienne maree brown an author, doula, women rights activist, and black feminist based in Detroit, Michigan. Adrienne thanks so much for
information The Culture War Wants You When the latest culture war clash (like Basecamp's apolitical manifesto) appears in your newsfeed, what does it feel like? Do you want to click it? Do you feel pulled towards it? If you're
information Medium-Message Fit When a product is a good fit for the market's needs, we call it Product-Market Fit. The product Uber fit our needs to conveniently get around a city. In biological evolution, when genes
moral foundations Networked Ideology of Fear In Noam Chomsky's 1988 book, Manufacturing Consent, he introduces the Propaganda Model of Communication. Raw news comes in the top, but is filtered by the financial incentive structures of media: https://twitter.com/
evolution Ears And Mouths Are Optimized For Speech In Medium-Message Fit, we showed how a given medium (like brains or text) determines the kinds of messages that can live on it. But the medium is not fixed. Memes can change their
cultural evolution Biology-Culture Fit Biology-culture fit is the extent to which cultural adaptations fit onto our biological anchors. For example, we can't make biological ants believe in a Sun God. Ants' simple biology isn't a good anchor
systems The More You Do, The More You Can Do On Jim Rutt's recent podcast with Matt Ridley, Matt gave a phrasing of feedback loops that I'd never heard before, but is quite powerful. Here's the phase: The more you do, the more
podcast #83 Kevin Kelly: Vanishing Asia and The Technium Podcast here. Rhys Lindmark: Hello, listeners. Today, I’m excited to chat with Kevin Kelly who has a variety of interesting pursuits. He is a senior maverick for Wired which he helped co-found
evolution Popper Criterion for Politics The Popper Criterion states that the long-term health of any system is based on its ability to remove bad instances from it. Let's look at politics. In politics, the Popper Criterion is known
evolution Popper Criterion The Popper Criterion states that the long-term health of any system is based on its ability to remove bad instances from it. In politics for example, people should be able to remove bad
personal Raising $10,000 for a 150-Mile Walk in Kenya tl;dr: In August I'll walk 150 miles in Kenya to raise money for a children's center out there. If you'd like to donate, I'd really appreciate it. Thank you! Learn more and
evolution Fitness Landscapes Should Have These Three Dimensions A fitness landscape is a helpful tool for thinking about biological and memetic evolution—which information will be successful in a given environment. Unfortunately, most fitness landscapes neglect the environmental dimension. This stops
books Better Book Reviews I think the book review ecosystem is broken. Here's a quick story explaining why. My day job is co-leading Roote, an online school for systems thinking. We'd love to get more students to
big history Three Alphabets, Three Trees The universe's complexity can be understood by three trees: the tree of molecules, the tree of life, and the tree of ideas. These trees are created by three building block alphabets: elements, genes,
