Ray Dalio’s Guide to the Storm: “Principles for Navigating Big Debt Crises” – a review
If you’ve ever stared at a news headline about debt ceilings, interest rate hikes, or some spiraling sovereign default and felt the creeping dread of not knowing…
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How and Why to Demonetize Your Life
To “demonetize” your life might sound like an abstract or even overly idealistic thing, but at its heart, it’s about taking a step back and reconsidering what…
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“The Chaos Machine” by Max Fisher Offers a Chilling Look at the Algorithms That Ate the World
In The Chaos Machine, Max Fisher pulls off something rare: a work of tech journalism that manages to feel both deeply human and apocalyptically urgent. Part investigation,…
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Turning Hours into Opportunity: How a Time Co-op is Changing Lives in San Antonio
In San Antonio, Texas, a quiet shift may be starting to take place. Amid the nation’s 7th largest city, where money dictates most exchanges, a group of…
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The Movement That Remembers: On Time Banking and the Recovery of Human Meaning
By one who still believes in grace… There is no word more profaned in modern discourse than “community.” It is whispered like a prayer in marketing campaigns,…
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Lost and Found: Transforming One’s Life for Better
To be lost is to be without direction, to feel that one’s life has no center, no guiding thread. This loss can take many forms. A man…
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When Did You Stop Really Living?
They say you need a lot of things in life. A job. A car. Some shoes that don’t give you blisters. A mattress that doesn’t hurt your…
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“A Conflict of Visions” by Thomas Sowell – a review
Some books leave you with answers. Others, like Thomas Sowell’s A Conflict of Visions, leave you with the more unsettling, and perhaps more valuable, gift of seeing…
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Redefining the Human Role in the Post-Labor Economy: Embracing a New Future
As we move into a time of unprecedented technological advancement, the nature of work is undergoing a radical transformation. Automation, robotics, and artificial intelligence (AI) are increasingly…
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“The Sources of Social Power” by Michael Mann – a review
Few books attempt to chart the fundamental structures of human civilization—and fewer still do so with the depth, breadth, and intellectual rigor found in Michael Mann’s The…