August 5th, 2024
- #2tweet Still a lil degenerate but not as bad is "My biz can't make payroll next month". Because it highlights batna solution of firing people, coming to some agreement where people take less pay (or get paid in shares) for a bit, raise more money, get a loan, etc.
- Money is a weird problem to try to solve because it's so umm.... like ULTIMATELY you need to get money, there's kind of no way around it. But there are basically infinite (combinatorially-explosively-infinite) possible ways to make money. So it doesn't lend itself to "okay I'll solve this problem" nature very well. Probably a better way to think about it is that "making enough money" or "having enough money" are degenerate problems to try to solve.
- Not degenerate is something like "I don't have a good relationship between the stuff I want to spend my time doing and money-engines". Because that lends itself to solving one end of the problem or the other end, but it's sort of clear that you're fixing a system/situation not just trying to accumulate money.
- Still a lil degenerate but not as bad is "My biz can't make payroll next month". Because it highlights batna solution of firing people, coming to some agreement where people take less pay (or get paid in shares) for a bit, raise more money, get a loan, etc.
- collection of exaptation storys: Exaptation At Play
- edited together from multiple people
- some a page long, some 3-10 pages long
- also stories from
- biology
- wings
- swim bladders to lungs
- some human stuff
- technology, like the accidental inventions book I read as a kid
- a collection of reflections on non-coercion
- many of them stories
- also some essays or models
- also some artwork! why not!
- some examples:
- Alex's consensus-ism (many posts, eg this)
- also something from me on "work 100× softer"
- Captain Mrs's noncoercion thread
- a couple of Sasha's substack posts
- Trinley Goldenberg would surely have something
- River Kenna probably
- maybe an edited version of Tyler Alterman's EA in garden of ends piece
- other sources maybe
- not an co-written book (edited anthology) - collections of essays/stories but related enough that I'll tag it here—a meditation flowchart