systems - Rhys Lindmark

Rhys Lindmark

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Sparking Your Success Spiral

Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel. — Socrates Compounding is everything. Compound interest dominates financial markets, compounding network effects dominate business, and compounding yourself dominates all other self-work you can do. So how do you compound yourself? We know what compounding looks like—an

The More You Do, The More You Can Do

On Jim Rutt's recent podcast with Matt Ridley [https://jimruttshow.blubrry.net/matt-ridley/], Matt gave a phrasing of feedback loops that I'd never heard before, but is quite powerful. Here's the phase: > The more you do, the more you can do. Here'

How to Live a Meaningful Life

> "We are too late for gods and too early for being." —Heidegger The modern world is in a meaning crisis [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLND1JCRq8Vuh3f0P5qjrSdb5eC1ZfZwWJ]. "Traditional" sources of meaning (religion) are being rejected, but there's nothing to take their place. The

Defining Paradigms

What is a paradigm? They show up in many places as a "crucial concept", but are extremely abstract and difficult to grok. In today's article, I'll help you understand paradigms by defining their three sub-components. Then I'll use those components to help

Seeing as a Human Organism

Seeing as a Human Organism

The goal of today's article is to give readers more understanding of the more recent neologisms that I use/support, especially ones that I use in the context of "systems thinking for good". Seeing Like a _______ I like the form Seeing Like a ______. It allows one

Better is Worse

Better is Worse

There's a popular(ish) concept among the Twitterati/developer community known as "Worse is Better" [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worse_is_Better]—"the idea that quality does not necessarily increase with functionality—that there is a point where less functionality ('worse') is

How to Work With Me

How to Work With Me

I'm a big fan of: * Making internal docs publicly transparent [https://twitter.com/balajis/status/1121157476919857153] * Thinking of humanity as a set of agents/nodes in an evolutionary game * The How To Work With Me (HTWWM) manual (1 [https://feld.com/archives/2016/04/user-manual-working.html], 2 [https:

My Process for Finding Weird Music

My Process for Finding Weird Music

I love finding new music and I have an intentional process to do so. I'd love to share my process with you. Or just check out my Songs for Self playlist for the weird but good music I've found thus far. What Is My Goal? Before

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

Universal Tithing

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Universal Tithing

We Should Tithe More! (and where I’m personally giving 20% of my income) Hi! The goal of this article is to show: 1. Why “universal tithing” is a key leverage point for a global paradigm shift. 2. The charities I tithe to. tl;dr * I donate (tithe) 20% of

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

Meta-Frameworks

This is a draft chapter from my book. Introduction here. * 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 sucks, say it! Btw, if

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’

Creating a Humanist Blockchain Future

Overview Hello! I’m happy to announce Season 1 for my podcast, Creating a Humanist Blockchain Future. I’m going release daily interviews with experts, scoped by system level. If you’re interested in systems/frameworks generally, I think you’ll enjoy the show! Here are the 4 system scopes