indy on deep dive
60 min podcast – jun 2020 – 28: Dark Matter, Social Contracts and the Boring Revolution: A Conversation with Indy Johar and @FarFlungPhil
In the latest episode of The Deep Dive I talk to @indy_johar co-founder @DarkMatter_Labs and we explore how we can re-imagine our social contracts and think about value. Take a listen here -> https://t.co/ciGRBbEebGhttps://t.co/kiYCxqgO9B
Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/FarFlungPhil/status/1268571504272343040
notes/quotes:
5 min – behind things you see.. there’s a lot of dark matter.. ie: for architecture.. a house.. dark matter is the warranty.. and property value.. et al
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6 min – social goods leak huge amounts of social value that is privatized.. most of things we’re making have these invisible problems.. ie: everyone talks about how great a school is..but reality.. adds maybe 70-100 000 dollars to cost of house.. if want to re imagine how to make civic society.. have to re imagine the contract between social value and social institutions and mechs around it..
7 min – underlying infra .. how we see the world.. based on single point transactions.. one to one contracts..
8 min – what we’re moving into is a world of interdependence.. where value is not so linear.. social value spills over.. real magic.. now have contracting (machine) infra.. to be able to re imagine how we re construct that value.. and when you can do that.. you start to change what i would say is the business model of the future
oi.. contracts et al.. red flags
historically.. our econ was about private contracting.. cost for more than 1to1 was too much.. now able to do many to many at any level.. that means.. moving private econ to civic econ
9 min – it’s the boring stuff.. but until you redesign them.. won’t get to the value we (want)
10 min – (p: do you have to have a re education on how to assess value) .. totally.. nail on head.. 1\ we think of value thru tangible things.. because can trade.. but 2\ how valuable is your personal network.. is it tradable/transferable.. no.. does cost.. yes.. worth huge value.. yes.. what we underprice are intangibles in our system.. this is an accountancy problem.. it’s about understanding how we account for value..
rather than an accountancy problem.. thinking we have to be accounting is the problem.. huge red flag
graeber values law.. et al
11 min – this is a real structural issue.. we are increasingly moving into an econ of interdependency and intangibles.. and our accountancy system is still focused on discrete and particular definable value/objects.. so we’re moving from one paradigm to another.. yet our underlying value.. people talk about values.. our mech structuring our values as accounting is actually outdated.. built on a siloed world for siloed/discrete models of thinking
not just outdated.. cancerous .. impossible (graeber values law)
12 min – we don’t have infra to imagine an econ where interdependence and intangible value is actually invested in..
13 min – how much is the health/ed of a nation worth.. because we don’t price these.. we don’t invest in them.. there’s a real structural issue of how we balance/account.. t.. and unless we make those rules reflective of the world we live in we’ve got a fundamental discrepancy
deeper issue/problem is that we think we have to balance/account
not to mention assuming Ed is a sign of worth/good-health
p: it’s the financialization of everything we do in our lives
16 min – hustle culture is if you make people precarious.. in debt.. you optimize the hustle.. force people to hustle.. optimizes for short term.. society constantly focusing on short term value
17 min – if we want deep innovation.. have to build diff types on cities.. which aren’t focusing on us to hustle.. but actually give us space to think and be.. t
ie: cure ios city
18 min – we’re privileging asset development in hands of a few..
imagine if we just focused on listening & connecting – in order to undo our hierarchical listening
in a precarious society.. fair is your mech of organizing
19 min – agility designs for hustle.. but doesn’t do the deep innovation which requires trust.. that fragility is not coming home
20 min – p: social contract.. how do develop one that moves away from mythologies of violence..t
yeah .. i think the contract ness itself is part of the structural violence
22 min – ownership is a thesis of enslavement.. the proprietary nature of ownership is deeply violent.. t
as are contracts.. they are about ownership/control.. et al
23 min – our relationship w nature/things/future/people.. are of ownership.. these fundamental things.. architectures of control.. to the optimization of the single person.. and i think that is the paradigm we need to break.. and we’re at the cusp of breaking.. because if we don’t break these generator functions.. they are generating risks: ineq; destruction of environ; .. that we’re not able to deal with
agree.. but we have to let go of all control.. ie: contracts et al
25 min – unless we restructure.. and deal with what it means to be human.. t
need to get to our essence.. ie: maté basic needs.. and then org around that (something already in each of us.. so no ed needed.. everyone can have a go right from the get go)
the thesis of decolonization has to be in (all of this).. this is a paradigm problem
literacy and numeracy both elements of colonialism/control/enclosure.. we need to calculate differently and stop measuring things
in west thesis has been around individualism.. in asia.. around society.. both are problematic.. both around an object.. they aren’t talking about our interdependence.. a diff state of organizing.. that’s the paradigm issue we’re facing
27 min – deep unwinding.. to allow us to be conscious of the science.. see ourselves as more than nouns/objects.. the idea that you could define a moment of us.. thesis is problematic.. science already there.. but cultural/institutional references not there
29 min – p: the language designs how we move forward culturally
30 min – p: we can’t collab effectively.. because we’re all chasing.. how to get interdependent..
begs we focus on curiosity over decision making
31 min – the reason we do a lot of crap work.. we don’t have a consumer econ.. we have a mal consumer econ.. we consume to fit psych holes.. left.. out of abuse.. which we then try to fix with a mal consumer econ.. t
spot on.. let’s focus on legit holes first.. and then trust the dance of 8b truly free/satisfied/filled people
almaas holes law et al
this is a vicious system we’re sitting in the middle of .. control rather than liberation.. we’ve reduced ourselves to labor and control..
32 min – we’re not really interested in upgrading the full capacity of what it means to be human.. we have to start imagining differently.. t
beyond contracts
mufleh humanity law: we have seen advances in every aspect of our lives except our humanity– Luma Mufleh
imagine if we would just listen to and facil 8b daily curiosities ie: cure ios city
33 min – unlocking the full capacity of being human is completely missing..t
huge
begs a means to undo our hierarchical listening ie: 2 convers as infra
economies are all showing pathways to future.. we just haven’t democratized it.. ie: top athletes.. what if unlocked full capacity of all humans
34 min – what does a society the fully unlocks and liberates look like.. i think that’s the extraordinary mission at end of story.. what is the social contract.. to re imagine what a society looks like
looks like cure ios city
sans contracts
let’s touch on ubi.. because i think it’s a big part of this.. i think it’s the basis of democratizing innovation capacity.. building the largest liberation of human capacity we could ever imagine
again.. not deep enough.. still measuring/accounting/controlling/owning
won’t get to free people.. imagine deeper
what we need is to code money (any form of measuring/accounting) as the planned obsolescence
w/ubi as temp placebo.. needs met w/o money..people forget about measuring
so on one hand ubi on other radically undermine process orientated jobs.. that humans should be liberated from.. but also have to link that ubi to human development.. have to re imagine our schools/institutions to allow people to develop
so.. you’re bringing the control/ownership/cancer right back in..
36 min – the basis of (6 mo swedish schools for 35 yr olds) .. that you cannot construct future w/o ability to think w these new capabilities.. the democratization of the capacity to think
huge red flag man.. all we need to focus on is 8b daily curiosities.. and trust that
i think that’s the scale of what we have to do to (move on)
spinning wheels.. not deep enough
39 min – p: ‘i need to maintain hierarchy to be better off’.. not just better for me but worse for others
thurman interconnectedness law: when you understand interconnectedness it makes you more afraid of hating than of dying – Robert Thurman
we need a means to undo our hierarchical listening to self/others/nature.. to uncover our interconnectedness
42 min – on ie where we short circuited the psychological distance of the other
yeah.. let’s do that .. every day..
a means to augment our interconnectedness
44 min – politics of infra predicating a politic for only limited politics .. keeping us from seeing each other.. seeing lots of defensive decisions (ie: people would be lazy w ubi)
47 min – language structuring.. we discuss from baseline rather than topline.. this is where language infras become critical.. these convos do happen from super privileged in private.. we’ve destroyed the space for this thinking to happen.. and we’ve really undermined society’s capacity to make these leaps.. that is a real issue.. unless we rewire that language.. create the space to think
begs we try idio-jargon/self-talk .. as data we focus on.. in order to connect us
..i think the just do culture.. the ‘just do it’ is exactly the problem.. destructive on the capacity to think on the obvious ness of the action.. we need to re cross those capabilities to do and think together.. only when those two things are decentralized and redistributed.. where everyone can do/think together.. can we create a deep democracy.. for all of society to create all of society together
beyond democracy (too loaded on decision making et al) .. ie: 2 convers as infra
48 min – p: we can’t make transformational leaps forward if we can’t even agree on the terms that we’re using.. what they mean
huge red flag.. we don’t need to agree on terms..
public consensus always oppresses someone(s)
49 min – this convo.. the heart of .. whether it’s construction of language/contract/ownership/property/receipt.. these things are the mechs to structure society.. how we structure the org of society
yeah.. and we have that all wrong..
imagine if instead we just structure around daily curiosity
50 min – they code people/relationship/capital.. ie: employment contract.. doesn’t take into account of emotional hours.. contracts based on hours.. don’t understand wider issues.. human activity has become fundamentally diff.. encoded in all these things.. if going to make meaningful revolution.. have to reimagine those contracts and relationship structure
actually deeper.. we need to let them go
52 min – these persist in everything.. re imagined.. our current thesis of bureaucracy based on wartime machine
we’re in middle of a bureaucratic revolution.. i think the bureaucratic revolution is at the foundation of our dealing w our relationship w ourselves/environ/future/things.. these are all going to get disrupted.. mechs of bureaucracy have to change from mechs of control to mechs of noblement.. of inviting us to be more noble.. that is a *completely diff thesis.. it’s about human development first not control
*maybe.. but not diff enough
let go
55 min – my go to place.. music .. the few pleasures i have (during pandemic).. looking forward to coffee
56 min – p recommends marianna’s entrepreneurial state
57 min – too many of us end up reading in our bubbles.. important to read other side with care.. important to listen.. so my rec’s: peter thiel; rebel wisdom; .. lenses they bring that are important to challenge ourselves with.. i think there is a deficit of structural thinking right now on the left.. the alt right narratives of philosophy are stronger.. because left are ignoring issues people really feel.. unless we build narratives that accommodate that.. will be counterintuitive.. only way forward is to listen
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