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Systems thinking is the skill set that’s most valuable as traditional product roles like PM and UX get redefined

@kennyliu @KMNDR_ She’s amazing! So insightful.

@KMNDR_ Keyu Jin provides the best deep dive into how Chinese governance and economy actually work. "The Mayor Economy" An imperfect system that's driven by cultural values and traditions. It could never work in the West. Nor should it. youtube.com/watch?v=XfLF9S…

The scariest thing about China is how good they are at a hybrid form of capitalism but call it communism.

Congrats @guardian, this is easily one of the most dishonest articles I've read in a long time, just pure ideological propaganda. In short the article's main thesis is that climate change is a "democracy" vs "autocracies" issue whereby virtuous "democracies" are struggling valiantly against climate change while evil "autocracies" are the primary obstacle to progress. And the central question being: how can we, the good guys, force these bad "autocracies" to behave responsibly on climate? As the article puts it, "democracies" apparently have attributes like popular pressure and transparency that mean only they can address important global issues, whereas bad awful "autocracies" are controlled by fossil fuel interests and have no internal pressure to change course. Only problem with this thesis? It's completely false. In fact reality is pretty much the opposite: the only major country with an open climate change denier leading it is non other than the US - the supposed beacon of democracy that just withdrew from the Paris Agreement again and is now the world's top exporter of fossil fuels. And by far the biggest driver of the global energy transition, building an extraordinary 74% of the world's clean solar and wind projects (ft.com/content/e51744…), is none other than China. And this trend is accelerating: more and more the US is becoming the world's principal roadblock to global decarbonization efforts, with the Trump administration now using tariffs as a weapon to pressure countries to maintain fossil fuel dependence, specifically US fossil fuels. Even the New York Times recently had to admit this was the case in a lengthy investigation documenting how China leads the energy transition while America actively undermines it (nytimes.com/interactive/20…). As they document, China is racing toward a renewable future while Trump's America is trying to keep the world "hooked on fossil fuels" through economic coercion and dismantling of climate policies. Long story short, presenting things as if it was "autocracies keeping us hooked on fossil fuels" as The Guardian is doing here is textbook disinformation. Which incidentally also destroys the article's theories around "democracies" supposedly having better information flows and accountability - hard to claim those virtues when peddling basic propaganda. Link to the article: theguardian.com/environment/20…

Makes sense. Strong correlation. Lot of monks out there who leveraged their sobriety to build two copycat businesses to get rich. Crick, Lilly, Sagan, Mullis, Feynman, Freud, Jobs, Edison could have all invented telegram if they had just been sober

@badlogicgames I agree - As a non-developer/designer you currently still need to stretch to be able to “read code”. At the same time as a Designer I’ve run into similar category issues he describes but have been able to solve them with “systems design”.

@kellert Developers have and still need to work on both levels of abstraction, until model code generation capabilities improve. Otherwise your systemic work will be hampered by garbage lower level implementations. Ask me how I know.

This is an excellent read. It also aligns with my experience. I have my coding agents on a very short and tight leash, and no generated code gets pushed unless I have cleaned it up and understand it myself. Everything else leads to pain and suffering. albertofortin.com/writing/coding…

@badlogicgames I agree with your take. But I would posit the blog post inadvertently reveals how this developer struggles hard at being a designer and wrongly blames the tool. Developers think of Cursor et all as a coding tool when really they should think of it as a design tool.

This is actually one of the worst books in existence. It teaches you just enough about system dynamics to have a vague high level understanding about how they work, basically putting you right at the peak of Dunning Kruger Mount Stupid. And then spends the last like third of the book telling you how smart you are now and to go be an activist and fuck with complex systems. Probably like 90% of all the retarded policy and cultural changes that midwit academics implement that end up destroying society stem from system dynamics theory retards like Meadows.

@mbauwens i like this. any new utopia that’s is articulated as an anti-thesis is not motivating enough. anti-capitalism, degrowth etc. only a utopia designed from the ground up without reference to “what is” is truly free, authentic and inspiring. a planetary utopia acknowledging nature…

The Alternative continues, presenting the second essay on Solarpunk by Hanzi Freinacht: "The second essay lays out what political (and even policy) appeals a solarpunk movement might make, to the populations of a city, region or country, that might lure them away from an eco-techno-authoritarianism. There are four initial design criteria: It has to be about Transcendent Design - big, heroic, visionary structural and infrastructural projects. Not always valorising small is beautiful And about Grand Design - municipal ambition for parks and public spaces Inclusive Design - which recognises “a living mycelium of communities, of real people with real roots and relationships. Without activating and establishing solarpunk movements and transitions to sustainability in these basic communities, and simultaneously stimulating these for greater social coherence and mutual trust, solarpunk cannot truly function. It loses its soul” Solarpunks need to be commons designers “sharing in open source knowledge, direct action for reclaiming and redesigning spaces, while engaging not only middleclass citizens, but also a wide variety of movements” thealternative.org.uk/dailyalternati…

The Alternative writes: "we were excited to find two serious essays from the public philosopher Hanzi Freinacht, who is a proponent of “metamodernism” - a school of thought that moves on from the relativism of postmodernism, recognising we face real and huge collective challenges. But metamodernism wants to retain that sense of creativity and bold leaps of thought from po-mo - coming up with new ways to address climate catastrophe, pandemic, technological acceleration, etc. In Freinacht’s first essay, he lays out how solarpunk might be useful: Without an aesthetic program, it is impossible to truly recreate today’s society in desired directions. We need more than just ideas of the things we wish to avoid (ecological disaster, pandemics, famine, wars, existential risks from technology…). We need more than a moral mission (e.g. “remedy suffering” or “save the animals” as discussed in one of my previous articles) or even the search for truth (“the mysteries of the universe, as revealed by science, in humanity’s greatest quest…”). We also need an aesthetic longing that calls us: a sense of beauty, of good taste, of inspiration, of creativity. The Nazis understood this very well. And so do the authoritarian regimes of today. Democratic nice guys, on the other hand, seem to struggle grasping this. As such, only authoritarian regimes have successfully managed to apply the aesthetics that speaks to the longings of 21st century humans: solarpunk. I believe that the solarpunk movement and its aesthetics offer some of the most viable pathways for such an impulse — one that is capable of carrying forward transition (to sustainability) and transformation (of social reality). Solarpunk can be a vehicle of metamodernist visions, not as a set of abstract ideas and ideals, but as something that is viscerally experienced through the senses and thus easy to communicate and build momentum and movement around. Solarpunks (i.e. people committed to this design sensibility) can be purveyors of metamodern culture and thus ultimately of Protopian society, strengthening these attractor points." thealternative.org.uk/dailyalternati…

🚨 Episode #45 is LIVE 🚨 🎙️ Redefining Ownership & Unleashing the Full Potential of Tokenization for Your Web3 Brand | @kellert from @OwnCoApp Presented by: @korisdac Hosted by: @brandoncnolte Check out a sneak peek here👇

@castacrypto @mbauwens sent you a DM. and @mbauwens would love to catch up as well

@kellert @mbauwens Hi @kellert it would be my pleasure! Feel free to DM me. Cheers!

An important 'contribution' to the shift towards the contributive economy: * The Valocracy Manifesto. Rafael Castaneda. Castacrypto, 2023 URL = castacrypto.notion.site/Valocracy-Mani… #1 Principle: Human Effort is not Fungible #2 Principle: Split Economic and Governance Power #3 Principle: Isonomy > Equality — “Don’t Fight Pareto” #4 Principle: Farewell “Shareholder”… long live “Valueholder” #5 Principle: Incentivize Efficiency #6 Principle: Time in the Collective > Timing the Collective

@Euractiv great episode. does thomas have a twitter account?

🎙️Today in the EU, Ep. 15 - Europe’s industry declines as China ‘de risks’ from the West Our Economy reporter, Thomas Moller-Nielsen, examines how China's shift away from Western reliance impacts Europe's industrial decline. 🔗eurac.tv/9WUN

@yalielkin @anishkmitra most of @anishkmitra tweets are

@anishkmitra This is an underrated Tweet.

2023-2024 is gonna be the era of the corporate treasury manager most startups may see operating income earlier than normal (if ever) thanks to J Powell cash balances at well funded companies will earn 5%+ for simply being there for the largest companies (eg AAPL), cost of cash may even be greater than the cost of debt, which presents some more interesting opportunities

It isn’t about decentralisation vs centralisation. The only thing that is important is that users can just up and leave any chain without incurring any losses.

@ekonavi_com @Sbootcamp amazing

Proud to announce that Ekonavi will be in the 2023 cohort of @Sbootcamp Sustainability Accelerator! Looking forward to exponentially catalyze ecological regeneration with SBC's guidance and support. Simbora plantar! 🌱 🌴 #startup #ReFi #ecology #agroforestry #SDGs #permaculture

@mbauwens leftist and rightist are both for maintaining/defending order and they’re both for tearing down orders. the identity doesn’t drive the behaviour. the position does. if i am at the top i want to stay there. wether i am left or right. continued inequality amplifies authoritarianism

@kellert I think they exist on both side, which both have libertarian and authoritarian wings; but 'hegemony' determines which side will be the most authoritarian; it used to be the right in my youth, it has now shifted, likely due to 'overproduction of elites', as Peter Turchin suggests.

Please explain this to me: why it is that more and more people on the left are uncomfortable with political pluralism and support deplatforming, cancellations and now debanking of political opponents ? What explains this shift to unadulterated authoritarianism ?

@jbrukh make sure to never build anything of value for real citizens while talking a big game about doing just that

What do you consider web3 values?