Summary of Peter H. Diamandis & Steven Kotler's Abundance

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#1 The metal aluminum was rare for most of history, until it was discovered in 1825 by Hans Christian Oersted and Frederick Wohler. It was then used in the Hall-Héroult process, which liberated aluminum from bauxite.

#2 Scarcity is often contextual. For example, imagine a giant orange tree packed with fruit. If I pluck all the oranges from the lower branches, I am out of accessible fruit. But once someone invents a piece of technology called a ladder, I’ve suddenly got new reach.

#3 The OPL initiative, created by BioRegional Development and the World Wildlife Fund, is a set of ten core principles that stretch from preserving indigenous cultures to the development of cradle-to-cradle sustainable materials.

#4 Scarcity has been an issue since life first emerged on this planet, but its contemporary form is what many call the scarcity model. It was in 1968 that the Club of Rome, a group of international thinkers, gathered together to discuss the problems of short-term thinking in a long-term world.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Jul 6, 2022
• ISBN: 9798822540286

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Insights on Peter H. Diamandis & Steven Kotler's Abundance

Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 5

Insights from Chapter 6

Insights from Chapter 7

Insights from Chapter 8

Insights from Chapter 9

Insights from Chapter 10

Insights from Chapter 11

Insights from Chapter 12

Insights from Chapter 13

Insights from Chapter 14

Insights from Chapter 15

Insights from Chapter 16

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

The metal aluminum was rare for most of history, until it was discovered in 1825 by Hans Christian Oersted and Frederick Wohler. It was then used in the Hall-Héroult process, which liberated aluminum from bauxite.

#2

Scarcity is often contextual. For example, imagine a giant orange tree packed with fruit. If I pluck all the oranges from the lower branches, I am out of accessible fruit. But once someone invents a piece of technology called a ladder, I’ve suddenly got new reach.

#3

The OPL initiative, created by BioRegional Development and the World Wildlife Fund, is a set of ten core principles that stretch from preserving indigenous cultures to the development of cradle-to-cradle sustainable materials.

#4

Scarcity has been an issue since life first emerged on this planet, but its contemporary form is what many call the scarcity model. It was in 1968 that the Club of Rome, a group of international thinkers, gathered together to discuss the problems of short-term thinking in a long-term world.

#5

The most infamous example of top-down population control was the Nazis’ eugenics program, but there have been a few other nightmares as well. India performed tubal ligations and vasectomies on thousands of people during the middle 1970s.

#6

The X PRIZE Foundation is a nonprofit organization that awards prizes to inventors and entrepreneurs who create world-changing industries. They have proven that one of the best ways to deal with the threat of scarcity is not to try to slice our pie thinner, but to figure out how to make more pies.

#7

The make-more-pies approach is nothing new, but there are a few key differences this time around. For the first