October 12th, 2021
- > Groucho's Law: never work on any project for which you can get funding.
- What if it were good tho? jingle
- Welcome to the day (inspired by Michael Ashcroft tweet quoting the one above)
- welcome to the day
- don't forget to play
- and don't forget to work on making things work
- for yourself and for the people you care about
- welcome to the day
- don't forget to say
- the things you need to say, whether with words
- or with art, or however it wants to come out
- short meta-team / sacred gifts thread:
- kinda curious how this relates to my experience of how NNTD has let me see how certain attempts towards trust-building will fail to build non-naive trust
- oh, some examples from information theory—can't encode a 10-bit number in 1 bit, can't decrypt blah blah without blah blah
- seems really relevant to the new economy
- > what was asked of me in order to maintain my funding was
that quote alone, plus knowing this is a purpose-driven group doing deep psychological work, is afaict enough to basically guarantee a shitshow
it's the *opposite* of what you need for that to go safely
- in a visioning doc I wrote a few months ago about what I'm trying to create, I wrote:
- > The projects in the meta-team are sufficiently profitable that we're generating enough revenue for everyone in the core of the meta-team to get a guaranteed minimum income that they know they'll have for at least a decade - probably indefinitely. This guarantee is secured via blockchain so that even when people leave they're still financially supported, preventing people from feeling trapped if the relationship or specific culture isn't a good fit.
- This safety net allows people to have total space to go at their own pace. Now, not all circumstances will have the abundance to do this, but it's not like Leverage wasn't paying their people in the first place. They had a bunch of money, they were just using it coercively.