Time Banking, better than Wells Fargo!

I’ve talked before about how all currencies are fundamentally social constructions that function as trust tokens or “units of caring“. As with anything constructed, we get to institute it according …

Andrew Ramsey, MD MPH

Huge thanks to Andrew for joining me today! We were able to talk big picture and get into the weeds. A colleague from medical school and is an inspiring thinker …

Success Paradox, or Useful Delusions?

My name is Keevin and I’m a recovering libertarian who used to love Ayn Rand after reading The Fountain Head. Previously, unexamined “Freedom” was the most important value to me. …

An Architecture of Motivation?

Most of human morals have been generated ad hoc based on limited knowledge of the human organism, be it biologically, psychologically, intellectually, emotionally, or socially. Certainly, we have stumbled upon …

Contextualism

Among our many awesome though limited survival heuristics is the binary bias. We tend to want to discretely categorize information into binaries. This has shown up in our institutions of …