How Do We Get a Significant Minority of People Trailblazing on Social Media?

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The first and most important component is just the stories. One of the most critical pieces is removing as much of the negative storytelling as you can because it's everywhere. For me, I try and tear out absolutely everything that's based around negativity. It also happens to be appealing to that Jed McKinnon base emotion of fear.

Author, CEO of VUDU Marketing and digital nomad Sam McRoberts returns for his second appearance on Infinite Loops. This week, Sam and Jim discuss Sam’s latest book ‘The Grand Redesign’. Part science-fiction, part operating manual for upgrading human OS, ‘The Grand Redesign’ touches on a number of recurring Infinite Loops themes, and is available for free online (see ‘Important Links’ section below). Important Links:

The Grand Redesign
Sam’s Twitter
Sam’s Substack
The Thinker and The Prover
Tinkered Thinking’s winning entry to our ‘White Mirror’ competition

Show Notes:

Why Sam wrote the book
Is the Watcher a reliable narrator?
Interfering with complex systems
An overview of Social OS
Why we need White Mirror
The kindness pledge
Incentives and the Cobra Effect
How do we break the Shannon limit?
Jim’s movie idea
Improving the political and legal system
The opportunities of AI
Optimising our system for flourishing
Finding the hidden geniuses
Sam’s solutions; reaching the tipping point
Sam’s hopes for the book
MUCH more!

Books Mentioned:

The Grand Redesign; by Sam McRoberts
The Status Game: On Human Life and How to Play It; by Will Storr
Prometheus Rising; by Robert Anton Wilson
House of Cards: Psychology and Psychotherapy Built on Myth; by Robyn Dawes
The Lessons of History: by Will Durant and Ariel Durant
Happy: Why More or Less Everything is Absolutely Fine; by Derren Brown
The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future; by Kevin Kelly