systems The More You Do, The More You Can Do On Jim Rutt's recent podcast with 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
meaning How to Live a Meaningful Life "We are too late for gods and too early for being." —HeideggerThe modern world is in a meaning crisis. "Traditional" sources of meaning (religion) are being rejected, but there's nothing to take their
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 Use These 5 Powerful Mindsets To Understand Our Uncertain World 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"—"the idea that quality does not necessarily increase with functionality—that there is a point where less 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 transparentThinking of humanity as a set of agents/nodes in an evolutionary gameThe How To Work With Me (HTWWM) manual (1, 2)Therefore, I'm
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! However, creating organic, bottom-up, “selfless/cooperative” behavior is difficult (without some centralized coordination mechanism for cooperation, e.g. the government)
self-tax We Should Tithe More! (and where I’m personally giving 20% of my income) Hi! The goal of this article is to show: Why “universal tithing” is a key leverage point for a global paradigm shift.The charities I tithe to.tl;dr I donate (tithe) 20%
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 TufekciThe goal of this article is to explain how the internet (networked information) enabled
frameworks Meta-Frameworks: How Should We Think About Frameworks Themselves? (Book Chapter 1) 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 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 Logo credit: John LindmarkOverviewHello! I’m happy to announce Season 1 for my podcast, Creating a Humanist Blockchain Future. I’m going release daily interviews with experts,
