Buckminster Fuller understood that people how feel threatened if anyone questions the way they see the world.
"People find it very comfortable to see the world, to experience reality, in square modules, and they find it disturbing—indeed threatening —for anyone to question squareness. They do not like to hear that rectangularity may not be innate; they do not want anyone to invalidate their scorecard of orthonormality."
Time Standard
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Time Standard explores how an accounting system based on time is realigning global incentives.
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"The only thing that's expendable is what we do with our time. Everything else is cumulative."
—Buckminster Fuller
@Michael Saylor :
Buckminster Fuller understood you cannot own physical property.
"Physical "ownership" is antientropic—ergo, eventually unsustainable."
—Buckminster Fuller
@Michael Saylor :
We are not used to thinking of reality as submitting to a "finite accounting system," but Buckminster Fuller was convinced it does.
Fuller would philosophize:
"You cannot have a fraction of an energy event."
"Nature does not use Pi."
He understood the importance of having an accounting system that mapped to reality.
Without a true accounting system, we would be lost and misguided.
I can't help but look around and see that he was right.
Buckminster Fuller understood we had to design our way out of cyclical violence.
"Elimination of war can only be realized through a design and invention revolution."
—Buckminster Fuller
@Leon :
Without a Lever, one cannot experience the feeling of Leverage.
Without Bitcoin, one cannot experience the feeling of Ephemeralization.
@Leon :
Buckminster Fuller understood our intimate relationship with the environment.
"Life continually alters the environment, and the altered environment in turn alters the potentials, realities, and challenges of life."
—Buckminster Fuller
@Jeff Booth :
Buckminster Fuller understood the need to avoid counterparty risk.
"It is prudent not to go to another man's island without your own boat."
—Buckminster Fuller
@Jeff Booth words of wisdom:
Buckminster Fuller understood that it takes our minds more than one experience to understand the significance of an idea.
"It takes literally four experiences for [the] mind to discover that there is an interrelationship significance going on here that was not to be evidenced in one experience by itself."
—Buckminster Fuller
@Jeff Booth here:
The Bitcoin network is an open and permissionless protocol with an insatiable appetite and buying capability.
"You can't have mass production without mass distribution. You can't have mass distribution without mass consumption. You can't have mass consumption without mass buying capability. We need a broad spectrum of those who could participate."
—Buckminster Fuller
@Jeff Booth
Bucky and Satoshi both understood the existing system increasingly relied on trust, and that it could be taken advantage of:
"As time is saved by progress, and time is in everything, all material products of industry must necessarily become lighter and lighter. It is worthy of note that this will be definitely reflected in the mirror of economic progress, the stock market, provided the time savings progress is balanced by the increase in good faith, and may be taken advantage of by those who intelligently acquaint themselves of this fact."
—Bucky
Satoshi has the fingerprints of a Comprehensive Anticipatory Design Scientist.
"Designing the new [time-energy] accounting system is the task of the Comprehensive Anticipatory Design Scientist." —Bucky
Cuts from a conversation with @Jeff Booth with thoughtful insights about:
Building on those who came before us
Passive vs active resistance
Protocol or Principle
Working for 8 billion people
Maps and perspective
Free markets, technology, and deflation
Networks
Energy infrastructure
A new hurdle rate
Education
Full conversation coming soon...
Excerpts from a conversation with @Leon
packed with insights about:
Buckminster Fuller
Digital Real Estate
Housing
Architecture
Bitcoin
Technology
Full conversation coming soon...
"Elimination of war can only be realized through a design and invention revolution."
-R. Buckminster Fuller
Bucky often referred to himself as a "trimtab"—a small rudder that can change the course of a large ship with a small amount of force. It was his analogy for how any single person can start to make a big difference. Satoshi put this into practice.
Bucky understood there is a gestation rate for ideas and inventions.
“Even after ‘discovery,’ inventions often remain popularly unrecognized and unemployed for long periods.”
—Bucky
Satoshi understood Comprehensive Anticipatory design science.
"Designing the new accounting system is the task of the Comprehensive Anticipatory Design Scientist."
—R. Buckminster Fuller
Bucky understood we had a solution; it just wasn't widely understood yet. That is beginning to change.
"Lack of knowledge of the solution's existence often leaves humanity confounded when it need not be."
—Bucky
Bucky understood tools are amoral:
"The military also buys soap and water, but
that doesn’t mean soap and water must be boycotted
by those who hate war. They also buy pencils, and
it’s perfectly clear to me that a man could use a
pencil as a dagger or he could write a prescription to
save a child’s life. So how tools are used is not the
responsibility of the inventor."
—Bucky