MetaView #26: Profit Maximalism & Game B w/ Jim Rutt

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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

Resources:

• Jim Rutt’s twitter

• Jim Rutt’s essay In search of the 5th attractor

• Jim Rutt’s on Medium

• Jim Rutt’s Show

• GameB.org

• Santa Fe Institute

• Network Wars

• An Initiation to Game B Film

• Isaac Asimov's Foundation Trilogy

• #GameB

• Emancipation Party Website

• Research and further reading

• Jordan Hall

• Jamie Wheal

• Jamie Wheal’s Recapture the rapture