abundance - Rhys Lindmark

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abundance

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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 my thought process. In the end I chose to use my local credit union, Self-Help Credit Union

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 Paris. To get SF to Paris levels, we want to increase the population 3x, to around 3M.

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 takes a village of peers to do great work. Instead of trying to find a

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 itself. Here's how it relates to schadenfreude, jealousy, and empathy: I believe that

Marriage Counseling with Capitalism

Writing by Rhys Lindmark. Illustrations by Audra Jacobi. We 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 you doing on this beautiful Monday? HUMANITY: I’m stressed. And tired. Yeah, it’s

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: I. What is money? II. Abstracting money III. Abundance of money IV. Abstracting the transfer

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].) 2. How an increase in quantity leads to an increase in quality, which we called "variable-quality

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 III. How we keep high quality in the face of abundance I. Commoditization

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 space" as a fundamental constraint in tech.

Blockchain & Self-Actualization

Blockchain & Self-Actualization

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 the product). In today's post, I want to explore the supply side in blockchain. Current

How Self-Taxing Changes Your Mind

How Self-Taxing Changes Your Mind

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 money now has a completely different texture. Instead of "money for self", it is "

Getting $1000 of Free Stuff

Getting $1000 of Free Stuff

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 on the look out for concrete/physical manifestations of abundance. Thus far, I've

1st Chapter of Book

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 processes that are more deeply aligned with a future of abundant long-term human flourishing. (i.e. Open

Giving $3000

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 became carbon neutral for the last 4 years of my life! (For $50) * I supported a year’

GameB & ETHCommons

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. Why is that needed? We’ll get there by starting super abstract (with the macro system context)