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Golda Velez

Soul is Rational: Why we need SBTs

also published on mirror.xyz - but I think I'll keep a copy here all the same. some of the thoughts evolved from the previous "minddump" draft... The dismal science, also known as Economics, describes behavior as "rational" if maximizes personal satisfaction. Markets are

Thinking in the Open

You write notes down first, then write them up. So, this is writing down, threading out thoughts to sift through later. Joy in work comes from meaning, and teammates - and most when colleagues share the meaning and core values, enough of the deep context, and share a level of

ideas, essays and frameworks

Sending these to a contact, made me want to pin them here as well: A draft of an essay calling for more frameworks for stateless individuals: Citizen or Hostage Started a framework for grassroots policy formation - Open Public Policy RFCs and wrote about it on medium - Taking Public

Mr Rosewater

If oxidative damage causes aging then we all burn up in the end, Mr Vonnegut One cannot have subtlety without context. re The volunteer firement trying to prevent their loved ones from combining with oxygen, in God Bless You, Mr Rosewater

the selfish-ness gene

suppose there were a gene that made the bearer feel entitled to other people's things. would it spread? And before pointing fingers, remember...the bearer would not think of them as other people's, or that they were taking anything by their actions.

a scientific definition of logic

logic exists (and a given problem is logical) if you can put 100 people in separate rooms with the problem and they converge on the same answer a logical problem is interesting if they converge over time, but generally do not agree given a very brief time

From the Evolution Desk...

male: "I'm going to have a million kids or die trying" female: "how do I make sure all my children survive and also everyone else I'm related to?" Unfortunately part of the female strategy is to try to get the "successful&

Theoretical Certainty: a story

When doing a startup, you talk about it everywhere, with everyone. At least I do. I went hiking today on a familiar trail; but the monsoons had changed things and I found myself going up and down the canyon looking for the turnoff. A couple sitting on a rock seemed

survival of the pithiest?

so high level patterns are the most durable - look at what percent of code is left from even 20 years ago; words from 500 years ago remain and are widely used "what a tangled web we weave..." quotes that use powerful imagery to communicate a complex pattern

Which story

Sometimes, it's hard for me to switch gears from something I care a lot about - launching this cooperative startup, or lobbying for these guys who are facing down dictators in Myanmar or kidnapped by thugs in Iraq - to writing python tests for a purpose that is,