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- How to find the right people and ideas to connect with?
- How to trust each other to live up to expectations (we need to trust - it's cheaper)?
- Build capital (pledge time / money / knowledge)?
"We need more tools than there are business models for." - Chris Alfano / Code for Philly - How to distribute value created?
- How to organize ourselves (coordinate time/actions)?
- How to discover the right context for suggestions?
- How to remain anonymous while paying? (foundation / trust / intermediary / restrict to certain area)?
Mark Twain: "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."
Rober M. Pirsig: "You are never dedicated to something you have complete confidence in. No one is fanatically shouting that the sun is going to rise tomorrow. They know it's going to rise tomorrow. When people are fanatically dedicated to political or religious faiths or any other kinds of dogmas or goals, it's always because these dogmas or goals are in doubt."
Mark Burgess: “How is it that we're so good at technology, and yet so poor at human cooperation?”
Julia Trancik: "Today we see more top-down decision happening. [...] In some other places these top-down policies don't seem to be the way things are moving. [...] Local policy makers are stepping in. [...] but they are covering a smaller area [...] they are representing smaller populations [...]. Then you have a bit more of a coordination challenge. But I don't think all is lost. I do think there are ways in which we could think about and be creative about finding ways to move forward with coordination - to incentivize coordination. We can use software for [..] solving the collective action problem. Many people individually would like to make a difference based on mass surveys [...]. Among people with all sorts of different backgrounds and you do see there are some common views. [...] There is a desire to protecting the environment. There is a desire to do something about this problem but each person can feel powerless because their decision alone can't bring about a large change. We should be thinking about technology in new creative ways to bring people together to allow for this bottom-up action and bottom-up coordination that could accelerate this transition to low-carbon energy systems."
Bruce Damer: "The origin of life was - in the beginning - not strictly competitive, it was mostly collaborative, about a sharing network, network relations. "
Pete Walker: "Those who are repetitively traumatized in childhood however, often learn to survive by over-relying on the use of one or two of the 4F Reponses [(Fight, Flight, Freeze, Fawn)]. Fixation in any one 4F response not only delimits the ability to access all the others, but also severely impairs the individual’s ability to relax into an undefended state, circumscribing him in a very narrow, impoverished experience of life."
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi: "Whether we are happy depends on inner harmony, not on the controls we are able to exert over the great forces of the universe."
Brother David Steindl-Rast: “We are never more than one grateful thought away from peace of heart.”
David Allen: “You can do anything, but not everything.”
Stephen Covey: “Schedule your priorities.”
Julia Racsko: "Our digital habits are counterproductive. By design."
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi: "The phenomenology of enjoyment has eight major components. When people reflect on how it feels when their experience is most positive, they mention at least one, and often all, of the following. First, the experience usually occurs when we confront tasks we have a chance of completing. Second, we must be able to concentrate on what we are doing. Third and fourth, the concentration is usually possible because the task undertaken has clear goals and provides immediate feedback. Fifth, one acts with a deep but effortless involvement that removes from awareness the worries and frustrations of everyday life. Sixth, enjoyable experiences allow people to exercise a sense of control over their actions. Seventh, concern for the self disappears, yet paradoxically the sense of self emerges stronger after the flow experience is over. Finally, the sense of the duration of time is altered; hours pass by in minutes, and minutes can stretch out to seem like hours. The combination of all these elements causes a sense of deep enjoyment that is so rewarding people feel that expending a great deal of energy is worthwhile simply to be able to feel it."
Jamie Mantzel: "The more they do together, the less their differences matter, because they start seeing each other for what they can do instead of for what they can't. [...] This is something [...] that we've lost to a large degree in our modern culture. [...] The times things have gone the best is when we were working on some goal together, because then we would look at each other for what we can do, instead of what we can't."
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi: "The optimal state of inner experience is one in which there is order in consciousness. This happens when psychic energy — or attention — is invested in realistic goals, and when skills match the opportunities for action. The pursuit of a goal brings order in awareness because a person must concentrate attention on the task at hand and momentarily forget everything else."
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi: "Contrary to what we usually believe, moments like these, the best moments in our lives, are not the passive, receptive, relaxing times — although such experiences can also be enjoyable, if we have worked hard to attain them. The best moments usually occur when a person’s body or mind is stretched to its limits in a voluntary effort to accomplish something difficult and worthwhile."
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi: "When every aspiration is frustrated, a person still must seek a meaningful goal around which to organize the self. Then, even though that person is objectively a slave, subjectively he is free."
Bertrand Russel: "Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. These passions, like great winds, have blown me hither and thither, in a wayward course, over a great ocean of anguish, reaching to the very verge of despair.
I have sought love, first, because it brings ecstasy - ecstasy so great that I would often have sacrificed all the rest of life for a few hours of this joy. I have sought it, next, because it relieves loneliness--that terrible loneliness in which one shivering consciousness looks over the rim of the world into the cold unfathomable lifeless abyss. I have sought it finally, because in the union of love I have seen, in a mystic miniature, the prefiguring vision of the heaven that saints and poets have imagined. This is what I sought, and though it might seem too good for human life, this is what--at last--I have found.
With equal passion I have sought knowledge. I have wished to understand the hearts of men. I have wished to know why the stars shine. And I have tried to apprehend the Pythagorean power by which number holds sway above the flux. A little of this, but not much, I have achieved.
Love and knowledge, so far as they were possible, led upward toward the heavens. But always pity brought me back to earth. Echoes of cries of pain reverberate in my heart. Children in famine, victims tortured by oppressors, helpless old people a burden to their sons, and the whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be. I long to alleviate this evil, but I cannot, and I too suffer.
This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the chance were offered me."
Sergey Brin & Larry Page: "Advertising funded search engines will be inherently biased towards the advertisers and away from the needs of consumers"
Jamie Mantzel:"Anytime you want to look up something that has to do with something that you can do for yourself, it's so hard to find anything. [...] You get a million things you could buy, you have to weed through a thousand pages to get this one little tidbit you can actually do yourself."
Dave Snowden:"The problem with digitization is that it's focused on what we can write down."
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi: "Creating meaning involves bringing order to the contents of the mind by integrating one’s actions into a unified flow experience."
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi: "To overcome the anxieties and depressions of contemporary life, individuals must become independent of the social environment to the degree that they no longer respond exclusively in terms of its rewards and punishments. To achieve such autonomy, a person has to learn to provide rewards to herself. She has to develop the ability to find enjoyment and purpose regardless of external circumstances."
John Gall: "All complex systems that work evolved from simpler systems that worked. If you want to build a complex system that works, build a simpler system first, and then improve it over time."
David Dylan Thomas: "You get the conversation you design for."
Havoc Pennington: "A traditional free software application is configurable so that it has the union of all features anyone's ever seen in any equivalent application on any other historical platform. Or even configurable to be the union of all applications that anyone's ever seen on any historical platform (Emacs cough).
Does this hurt anything? Yes it does. It turns out that preferences have a cost. [..] [E]ach one has a price, and you have to carefully consider its value. Many users and developers don't understand this, and end up with a lot of cost and little value for their preferences dollar."
James Baldwin:"Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them. They must, they have no other models."
Nietzsche:"Out of life's school of war—what doesn't kill me, makes me stronger."
Dave Snowden:"A resilient system is a system that survives with continuity of identity over time. Antifragile is just one way to achieve that and not the most effective. If you remove ambiguity from a system you destroy its ability to evolve."
Bertrand Russel:"Most people would die sooner than think: in fact, they do so."
Dave Snowden:"Three people talking is a balance."
Norm Kerth:"Regardless of what we discover, we understand and truly believe that everyone did the best job they could, given what they knew at the time, their skills and abilities, the resources available, and the situation at hand."
Lewis Mumford:"The most powerful dehumanizing machine is not technology but the social machine, i.e. the formation of power structures to make humans emulate command structures to make pyramids and skyscrapers..."
Senator John Sherman:"If we will not endure a king as a political power, we should not endure a king over the production, transportation, and sale of any of the necessities of life."
Carl Rhodes & Peter Bloom:" what we are witnessing is the transfer of responsibility for public goods and services from democratic institutions to the wealthy, to be administered by an executive class."
Jordan Hall:"We need more choices made at the human scale level. [...] If you do that the digital stuff becomes vastly less important."
Diane Coyle:"Trust networks or communities need to join market and hierarchy as a standard organisational form."
Jessica Joy Kerr:"The people can move themselves. They can naturally find places where their values align and they can contribute because we all want to contribute - if we have the opportunity and the safety to do that."
Dave Snowden:"You do need different language to express new concepts. [...] If you can identify when a system is ready to change, and enable people to achive that change locally, and you can share that knowledge horizontally, you get there. [...] Transcendence is an emergent property of doing things. [...] The issue is distributed nodal control rather than distributed individual control. We need to think about identities not individuals, we need to think about agency at identity level."
The guy from 'The art of life': "What the whole culture needs right now is how to find wealth without needing to exploit everything."
Dave Snowden:" Holacracy is a truly disastrous form of bureaucracy. It's a computer programmer who doesn't want to exercise human judgement, writing a system so he won't have to do it."
Dave Snowden:"One of the big issues at the moment is judgement and social judgement and social interaction. The peace and reconciliation we're working on is transgenerational localized: find things that are common to red and blue, get them to work on them together - don't talk about the problem.
You do in order to have a conversation. [S02e1 derry girls]
The basic principle is you have to get people into small sacrifices in their proximate environment, so the dispositional state changes, so they accept politicians to make wider changes as a whole. You don't start with a global change, you start with that hyperlocalized realization."
Alice Walker:"The most common way people give uo their power is by thinking they don't have any."
Alfred North Whitehead:"Civilization advances by extending the number of operations we can perform without thinking about them."
Bob Moorehead: "The paradox of our time in history is that we have taller buildings but shorter tempers, wider Freeways, but narrower viewpoints. We spend more, but have less, we buy more, but enjoy less. We have bigger houses and smaller families, more conveniences, but less time. We have more degrees but less sense, more knowledge, but less judgment, more experts, yet more problems, more medicine, but less wellness.
We drink too much, smoke too much, spend too recklessly, laugh too little, drive too fast, get too angry, stay up too late, get up too tired, read too little, watch TV too much, and pray too seldom. We have multiplied our possessions, but reduced our values. We talk too much, love too seldom, and hate too often.
We've learned how to make a living, but not a life. We've added years to life not life to years. We've been all the way to the moon and back, but have trouble crossing the street to meet a new neighbor. We conquered outer space but not inner space. We've done larger things, but not better things.
We've cleaned up the air, but polluted the soul. We've conquered the atom, but not our prejudice. We write more, but learn less. We plan more, but accomplish less. We've learned to rush, but not to wait. We build more computers to hold more information, to produce more copies than ever, but we communicate less and less.
These are the times of fast foods and slow digestion, big men and small character, steep profits and shallow relationships.
These are the days of two incomes but more divorce, fancier houses, but broken homes. These are days of quick trips, disposable diapers, throwaway morality, one night stands, overweight bodies, and pills that do everything from cheer, to quiet, to kill. It is a time when there is much in the showroom window and nothing in the stockroom. A time when technology can bring this letter to you, and a time when you can choose either to share this insight, or to just hit delete...
Remember, to spend some time with your loved ones, because they are not going to be around forever. Remember, say a kind word to someone who looks up to you in awe, because that little person soon will grow up and leave your side.
Remember, to give a warm hug to the one next to you, because that is the only treasure you can give with your heart and it doesn't cost a cent.
Remember, to say, "I love you" to your partner and your loved ones, but most of all mean it. A kiss and an embrace will mend hurt when it comes from deep inside of you.
Remember to hold hands and cherish the moment for someday that person might not be there again. Give time to love, give time to speak! And give time to share the precious thoughts in your mind."
Frida Kirchway::"We face a choice between one world or none."
Tijl Leenders:: "The devious genius of currency is that it represents wealth - but doesn't store wealth. When we choose to get paid for our work in fiat currency - we get paid in shares of an organization that - on average - always has a decreasing value per share due to an ever increasing money supply. This forces us to spend always spend money - whether we hold on to it or not."