systems - Rhys Lindmark

#90 César Hidalgo: How To Understand Sociotechnical Systems

Apple Podcasts [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-rhys-show/id1254196635] | Google Podcasts [https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5zb3VuZGNsb3VkLmNvbS91c2Vycy9zb3VuZGNsb3VkOnVzZXJzOjQ2Njg5NjY2L3NvdW5kcy5yc3M] | Spotify [https://open.spotify.com/show/4KAwj3OnMLDtVaqNlNzrLJ] Rhys Lindmark: Hello listeners. Today, I'm excited to

systems

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

meaning

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

paradigms

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

5 Mindsets

We are still in the "touching the elephant" phase of the "ideological mindsets" that emerge from "The Transition" (away from late-stage-capitalism at the birth of the internet). In other words, we don't yet

language

Meta Mondays: (language to use when) 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"

systems

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—

personal

Personal Wednesday: My "How to Work With Me" Manual (as API) + Thoughts on Big 5

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

music

My Process for Finding Weird Music

I love finding new music and I have a hyper intentional process to do so. Let's look at this process (and why it is starting to fail). What Is My Goal? Before looking

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

self-tax

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

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)

frameworks

Meta-Frameworks: How Should We Think About Frameworks Themselves? (Book Chapter 1)

This is a draft chapter from my book. Introduction here [https://medium.com/@RhysLindmark/1st-chapter-of-book-for-feedback-45d6b4673cb1] . * If you’d like to give feedback, do so through this Google Doc [https://docs.google.com/document/

abundance

CryptoPledge #1: Abundance Begets Abundance—Giving $3000 (16% of My Net Worth) to 6 Causes!

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

podcast

“Creating a Humanist Blockchain Future” Season 1—A Daily Systems Podcast and Pledge to Decentralize Power

Photo credit: http://one-europe.net/law-of-humanity [http://one-europe.net/law-of-humanity.] Logo credit: John LindmarkOverview Hello! I’m happy to announce Season 1 for my podcast, Creating a Humanist Blockchain Future. I’m going