Patterns of Deep Response

Tag: strategic

  • v1.01.01 Ch1 – Think About Money to Forget About Money

    We’re going to spend a lot of time thinking about and dealing with money in this volume. You might get the impression that I’m advocating that you think about money all of the time. I am not. I advocate that you think intensely about money all of the time for a short period of time, in…

  • build a life you like

    Action Design and build a life(style) that you like. Discussion If you like your life, you can’t be sold to. If you like your life, you can’t be convinced that you need to buy XYZ bullshit product in order to finally be happy. You’ve heard of FU money? This is an FU lifestyle. If you…

  • cultivate autonomy

    Action Seek to increase your personal freedom-of-action over time, which can be roughly understood as the freedom to decide for yourself how to spend the bulk of your time per day, per month, per year, per decade. Discussion The primary reason to cultivate autonomy is so that you can align your work, actions, thoughts, effort,…

  • draw reverse fishbone diagrams

    Action When deciding whether to do something or not, draw a reverse fishbone diagram of it. First, write down the action and draw a box around it. Then, draw the primary Why – the goal, desired outcome, objective, reason, etc for doing the Action – out to the right, and connect the two with a…

  • put your own oxygen mask on first

    If being useful to other beings in this confusing, complicated era is important to you, then first get your own systems up and running smoothly. Bias decisions towards increasing durable personal autonomy and cooperative self-reliance. Get as free as possible as quickly as possible. You can’t do much good if you’ve still got handcuffs on,…

  • a very low cost of living is magic

    The Issue Spending money requires earning money, which requires exchanging labor in a job of some sort. The Response Aim to spend very little money while maintaining or increasing your subjective quality of life. The less money you spend, the less time you need to spend earning money, the more time you have available to…

  • reframe crazy

    To be considered strange by the prisoners of the dominant culture is a compliment. Worry if they don’t think you’re strange. Is society healthy, that an individual should return to it? Has not society itself helped to make the individual unhealthy? Of course, the unhealthy must be made healthy, that goes without saying; but why…

  • do the math

    Do the Math is a general pattern. Lots of areas of our lives seem mysterious or difficult until you just do some simple math on it, and look at the numbers, and go “oh, this isn’t that mysterious or difficult after all, I just didn’t understand how it worked.” For example it might seem impossible…

  • stimulate the informal economy

    Action Seek ways to bring the activities of your life back into the informal economy, the ad hoc person to person web of reciprocal relationships whereby people simply do the things necessary for living in ways that don’t involve the exchange of money. Discussion The Machine would like all labor and activity to fall under…

  • set up your place so friends can crash with you

    Action Set up a space so if a friend calls you and needs to crash you can accommodate them without having to think about it. A spare room, a sleeping mat and bedding, a couch, discussion with your cohabitants, and a thought-through list of information for the crashee on the logistics of your household will…