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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, an online school for systems thinking. We'd love to get more students to

  • Rhys Lindmark
    Rhys Lindmark
8 min read
book review

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

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

  • Rhys Lindmark
    Rhys Lindmark
9 min read
Book Review: "Just Giving" by Rob Reich, A Political Theory of Philanthropy
book review

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

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

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    Rhys Lindmark
14 min read
Applying Axelrod’s “Theory of Cooperation” to Universal Tithing
systems

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

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)

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    Rhys Lindmark
2 min read
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 TufekciThe goal of this article is to explain how the internet (networked information) enabled

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    Rhys Lindmark
8 min read
book

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 and Chapter 1. If you’d like to give feedback, do so through this Google Doc. (If you give any amount

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    Rhys Lindmark
15 min read
book review

“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

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    Rhys Lindmark
8 min read
self-help

Grow Your Startup and Communicate More Effectively with Actionable Takeaways from These 19 Books

Podcast here: https://soundcloud.com/rhys-lindmark/16-grow-your-startup-and-communicate-more-effectively-with-actionable-takeaways-from-these-19-books 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

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    Rhys Lindmark
22 min read
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