Defenses: Closed-system vs, Open-system
A commonality of Amazon, Google, and Facebook is that they began not as defensive structures but as open structures. The challenge is to remain at …
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Bottom-up rationality to combat nonsense
Continued contradictions become nonsense: illogical, irrational closed systems perpetuated by mass-concensus, dogma, and momentum. The danger of engaging, even to critique, is to become corrupted …
Contradictions are System Alerts
Frustration at contradictions is an alert: the system is not serving us. For instance: we have starvation amidst abundance. We are more connected than ever, …
Flexible Systems
Systems are good, but if your system doesn’t adapt you are wasting time and energy. You don’t need to treat a fluff book like a …
Living vs Achieving
The paradox: we know that the "right thing to do" is to think long-term, which tends to be a costly upfront sacrifice, but it incurs …
Creativity is expensive and brave.
Given a real world situation there are a set of constraints leaving maybe 2 or 3 realistic, rational, and cost effective options open. Thus, we …