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abundance

A collection of 16 posts

economics

More Startups Should Use Credit Unions

Update: Lol, we ended up switching from a Credit Union to Mercury. I just finished signing up for a bank account for my nonprofit, Roote [https://www.roote.co/], and wanted to share

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    Rhys Lindmark
5 min read
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

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    Rhys Lindmark
3 min read
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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

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    Rhys Lindmark
1 min read
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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

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    Rhys Lindmark
6 min read
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Marriage Counseling with Capitalism

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    Rhys Lindmark
29 min read
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Abundance: Money

In our last two posts, we defined abundance [https://www.rhyslindmark.com/defining-abundance/], and looked at abundance in trust [https://www.rhyslindmark.com/abundance-trust/]. Today, we'll look at abundance of money. Our outline:

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    Rhys Lindmark
12 min read
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Abundance: Trust

In our last post Defining Abundance [https://www.rhyslindmark.com/defining-abundance/], we discussed: 1. How abundance is created through abstraction. (Image: Black Box [https://www.rhyslindmark.com/content/images/2020/04/image-8.png]

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    Rhys Lindmark
12 min read
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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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    Rhys Lindmark
8 min read
bentoism

Building Paradigms

This essay synthesizes responses to Marc Andreessen's recent piece: It's Time To Build [https://a16z.com/2020/04/18/its-time-to-build/]. I'll explore "vetocracy" as a root cause problem in government and "diminishing bits

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    Rhys Lindmark
7 min read
5 Mindsets
meta

5 Mindsets

We are still in the "touching the elephant" phase of the "ideological mindsets" that emerge from "The Transition" (away from late-stage-capitalism at the birth of the internet). In other words, we don't yet

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    Rhys Lindmark
4 min read
Blockchain Wins Over Developers with Self-Actualization (in addition to Integrity)
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Blockchain Wins Over Developers with Self-Actualization (in addition to Integrity)

All new technologies are driven by a feedback loop between the supply side (developers/employees who are excited to work on a product) and the demand side (consumers/enterprises who want to buy

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    Rhys Lindmark
6 min read
Self-Tax Sunday: How a Self-Tax Constraint Breeds Creativity
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Self-Tax Sunday: How a Self-Tax Constraint Breeds Creativity

I have enough money, so I self-tax myself [https://www.rhyslindmark.com/test-we-should-tithe-more-and-where-im-personally-giving-20-of-my-income/] 20% post-tax ($900/month) to give to support civil society. By categorizing this 20% into a special self-tax bucket, this

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    Rhys Lindmark
2 min read
Getting $1000 of Free Stuff is a Manifestation of Abundance
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Getting $1000 of Free Stuff is a Manifestation of Abundance

I write a good amount [https://www.rhyslindmark.com/test-we-should-tithe-more-and-where-im-personally-giving-20-of-my-income/] about the paradigm shift towards the abundance of capital. This is an abstract concept that is sometimes difficult to conceptualize, so I'm always

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    Rhys Lindmark
1 min read
book

1st Chapter of Book (for Feedback!)

Hello! Welcome to the 1st draft of my book, Creating a Humanist Blockchain Future (placeholder title). The goal with open-sourcing these drafts is to: * Get feedback before releasing the book * Experiment with new

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    Rhys Lindmark
14 min read
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CryptoPledge #1: Abundance Begets Abundance—Giving $3000 (16% of My Net Worth) to 6 Causes!

I just donated $3000 to 6 causes (yay!). The goal of this article is to explain both: 1) Why I donated and 2) How I chose the 6 causes. The highlights are: * I

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    Rhys Lindmark
26 min read
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Co-evolving the Phase Shift to GameB by Founding The Ethereum Commons

The goal of this article is to outline my upcoming crowdfunding experiment to be a Co-Steward of the Open-Source Ethereum Commons Co-op [http://staketree.com/rhyslindmark]. Essentially: various people/projects will support me

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    Rhys Lindmark
22 min read
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