In an abundance-aligned system, credentials are noise. Contribution is the signal. That’s why this model feels so alien to scarcity-trained minds: You don’t apply → you show up You don’t climb → you add You don’t get chosen → you choose yourself You don’t own influence → it emerges And the moment someone tries to formalize it — titles, funding committees, roadmaps by decree — the system starts to calcify. That’s the 180-degree rule in action again: Scarcity says “filter first, trust later.” Abundance says “contribute first, trust emerges.”

Abundance doesn’t come from better rulers. It comes from removing the ruler entirely.

Someone asked me the secret to my success. I said: 180-degree rule.