how to 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
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
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
language 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 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
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. What Is My Goal? Before looking at my process, let's first
systems 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)
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 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
abundance 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
podcast 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
