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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 get more students to apply to the school, so we're thinking

When Should Law Forgive?

> “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 Other Side for supporting their candidate? These are difficult questions to answer. Martha Minow, Obama'

Just Giving

I'm interviewing Rob Reich on my podcast soon. As preparation for that interview, I wanted to review his most recent book, Just Giving, which I loved (I highlighted 15% of the book, compared to my average of 5 percent!). Just Giving is an analysis of philanthropy through a

Axelrod’s Theory of Cooperation

I recently wrote about my mindset towards giving, titled: We Should Tithe More! However, creating organic, bottom-up, “selfless/cooperative” behavior is difficult (without some centralized coordination mechanism for cooperation, e.g. the government). This article explores one way to organically catalyze cooperation. Applying Theory of Cooperation to Universal Tithing In

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) enabled fragile nonviolent protest, then map that onto how blockchain technology (networked capital) is enabling

What’s Our Goal?

This is a draft chapter from my book. Here’s the Introduction and Chapter 1. If you’d like to give feedback, do so through this Google Doc. (If you give any amount of feedback, I’ll thank you in the book!) Please give me brutal, honest feedback! If something

The Sovereign Individual

“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 reorganize life more thoroughly than either the Agricultural Revolution or the Industrial Revolution. And its impact will

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, then you’ll get habitualized, compounding returns on your professional and personal life. That’s what this