books - Rhys Lindmark

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 [https://www.roote.co/], an online school for systems thinking. We'd love to

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Book Review: "When Should Law Forgive?" by Martha Minow

> “Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.” — Paul Boese To forgive or not forgive? That is the question. Should we forgive student debt, rent during COVID, and The

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Book Review: "Just Giving" by Rob Reich, A Political Theory of Philanthropy

I'm interviewing Rob Reich [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Reich] on my podcast soon. As preparation for that interview, I wanted to review his most recent book, Just Giving [https://www.goodreads.

systems

Applying Axelrod’s “Theory of Cooperation” to Universal Tithing

I recently wrote about my mindset towards giving, titled: We Should Tithe More! [https://medium.com/@RhysLindmark/we-should-tithe-more-and-where-im-personally-giving-20-of-my-income-8772541c2685] However, creating organic, bottom-up, “selfless/cooperative” behavior is difficult (without some centralized coordination mechanism for

movements

Crypto is Networked Nonviolent Protest

> “Technology rarely generates absolutely novel human behavior; rather, it changes the terrain on which such behavior takes place.” > — Zeynep Tufekci The goal of this article is to explain how the internet (networked information)

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What’s Our Goal? To Do Good. But for Who on What Timescale? (Book Chapter 2)

This is a draft chapter from my book. Here’s the Introduction [https://medium.com/@RhysLindmark/1st-chapter-of-book-for-feedback-45d6b4673cb1] and Chapter 1 [https://medium.com/@RhysLindmark/meta-frameworks-how-should-we-think-about-frameworks-themselves-book-chapter-2-20a85a770188] . If you’d like to give feedback, do

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“The Sovereign Individual” Book Review: Takeaways, Quotes, and Critique

> “The transition from one stage of economic life to another has always involved a revolution. We think that the Information Revolution is likely to be the most far reaching of all. It will

self-help

19 Books to Run Your Startup

Your brain is “running” in a conscious state for 16 hours a day, 365 days a year, for your entire life. If you can “improve your form” and make it run more effectively,