NextMeta MetaView #26: Profit Maximalism & Game B w/ Jim Rutt
Jim Rutt remembers his days as a businessman, CEO of Network Solutions and CTO of Thomson-Reuters. When he retired in 2001 he went back to his original love: science. He then started working with the Santa Fe Institute as a researcher -where he met Jordan Hall- and eventually became the chairman. It was 2012 when he and some friends started the social movement and philosophical set of ideas known today as Game B.
In this episode Rutt and Peth dive deep into the movement that aims to create the social operating system for the future, from the early attempts as the Emancipation Party to the current state and possible scenarios.
Rutt recognizes the damage caused by Game A's exponential growth approach of the world while he also acknowledges the process of “bottom-up” culturalization that has to take place first for Game B to succeed. “The Game B turn is to do two things. One is to develop a way of living in the world that fully honors our natural world and actually helps it regenerate from some of the harm that's been done in the late stages of Game A, and does it in a way that is organized around increasing human well-being and puts human well-being central”.
Some of the topics
Complexity science
Game A Background
WTF is Game B?
Mental Health crisis
Network technologies
Building growth inwards vs macro growth
Game B Communities
Face-to-face aspect of Game B
Consumption ratings in the western world
Failure modes of game B
Roles in the Game B community
Bad attractors or scenarios
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