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A collection of 15 posts

podcast

#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

  • Rhys Lindmark
    Rhys Lindmark
32 min read
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

  • Rhys Lindmark
    Rhys Lindmark
4 min read
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

  • Rhys Lindmark
    Rhys Lindmark
13 min read
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

  • Rhys Lindmark
    Rhys Lindmark
18 min read
5 Mindsets
meta

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

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    Rhys Lindmark
4 min read
Meta Mondays: (language to use when)  Seeing as a Human Organism
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"

  • Rhys Lindmark
    Rhys Lindmark
3 min read
Better is Worse
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—

  • Rhys Lindmark
    Rhys Lindmark
3 min read
Personal Wednesday: My "How to Work With Me" Manual (as API) + Thoughts on Big 5
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

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    Rhys Lindmark
2 min read
My Process for Finding Weird Music
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

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    Rhys Lindmark
4 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! [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

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    Rhys Lindmark
2 min read
Universal Tithing
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

  • Rhys Lindmark
    Rhys Lindmark
19 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 Tufekci The goal of this article is to explain how the internet (networked information)

  • Rhys Lindmark
    Rhys Lindmark
8 min read
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/

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    Rhys Lindmark
15 min read
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

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    Rhys Lindmark
26 min read
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

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    Rhys Lindmark
9 min read
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