economics More Startups Should Use Credit Unions I just finished signing up for a bank account for my nonprofit, Roote, and wanted to share my thought process. In the end I chose to use my local credit union, Self-Help Credit
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
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
abundance We Need To Talk: Marriage Counseling with Capitalism Itself Writing by Rhys Lindmark, illustrations by Audra Jacobi, Orbit prompts by Nick Torba. 10/19/21 Update:1. We have added Orbit prompts to this piece to help you remember the content. You'll
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"
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
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.
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
blockchain 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
self-tax Self-Tax Sunday: How a Self-Tax Constraint Breeds Creativity I have enough money, so I self-tax myself 20% post-tax ($900/month) to give to support civil society. By categorizing this 20% into a special self-tax bucket, this money now has a completely
abundance Getting $1000 of Free Stuff is a Manifestation of Abundance I write a good amount about the paradigm shift towards the abundance of capital. This is an abstract concept that is sometimes difficult to conceptualize, so I'm always on the look out for
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 bookExperiment with new processes
abundance 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
paradigms 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. Essentially: various people/projects will support me to facilitate cross-project collaboration.
