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"
links 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
links 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
links 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
Links [April 1, 2020] (This is going through a long backlog. Hopefully future link lists will posted more often and be less long!) Categories below: Fun, Post-Capitalism, Networkism, Abundance, Climate Change, Social Justice Activism, Effective Altruism, Progress
personal Personal Wednesday: Using "I Am" Statements to Make Your Identity Large In general, it's powerful to keep your identity small. But it's also helpful to have a clear sense of self identity. To achieve this, I've started a simple but powerful habit: "I am.
crypto ethics What is #BlockchainEthics and Why Should We Care? The goal of this post is to help the reader understand what #BlockchainEthics is and why it matters. What is #BlockchainEthics?#BlockchainEthics is a civil society-based movement to help shape blockchain technology for
crypto ethics #CryptoEthics Concepts: Decentralization-Enabled Unstoppable Code "One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws." — Martin Luther King Jr., Letter from a Birmingham JailThe
personal Personal Wednesdays: Understanding The Process of Therapy I'm a huge fan of therapy (if you haven't done it yet, you really need to try it!). Thus far, here's my most succinct explanation of it (and its benefits). Therapy is a
blockchain The "Mother of All Demos" for Crypto? The crypto world has been super excited by PoolTogether this week (especially the ETH-focused cryptoeconomics world). It reminds me of the excitement around FOMO3D about a year ago. It has me thinking about
