culture - Rhys Lindmark

Rhys Lindmark

culture

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Stripe Email Transparency

As we build Roote [https://www.roote.co/], I'm trying to use best practices from the best startups. One easy heuristic is What Would Stripe Do? [https://koolaidfactory.com/] The one I'm most interested in right now is email transparency. * Here's their blog about

cultural evolution

Biology-Culture Fit

Biology-culture fit is the extent to which cultural adaptations fit onto our biological anchors. For example, we can't make biological ants believe in a Sun God. Ants' simple biology isn't a good anchor a complex culture. For another example, let's look at how

Post-WEIRD Nacirema Psychology

> From 2000-2200, the customs of the Nacirema [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nacirema] tribe shifted considerably. At the start of the 21st century, they were leaders of a pan-capitalist ideological superstructure. But as the decades unfurled, their monolithic stature dissipated into the Networked Human Organism. > Their Industrial Age

The WEIRDest People in the World

The cultural evolution of psychology is the dark matter that flows behind the scenes throughout history. Joseph Henrich is the world's leading scholar of cultural evolution. He released a brilliant book last week, The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous.