The Medici: How a Renaissance Banking Dynasty Built the Blueprint for Modern Financial Power
Paul Strathern’s The Medici is one of those history books that reads more like a story than a lecture. He traces the family’s rise from shrewd moneylenders…
Finance and Economy
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From Birds to Banks: What Nature Can Teach Us About True Wealth
It has always seemed to me that nature, in her quiet dignity, never once conceived of interest rates or compound debt, and yet she manages her affairs…
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The Man Who Quit Money: What Daniel Suelo’s Radical Life Teaches Us About Freedom
In The Man Who Quit Money, Mark Sundeen follows the radical life experiment of Daniel Suelo, a man who in 2000 walked away from his last thirty…
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Luke Kemp’s “Goliath’s Curse” – Let’s Take a Look
Luke Kemp’s Goliath’s Curse is not the sort of book you can skim on a lazy afternoon and then forget on the coffee table. It’s the kind…
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From Movement to Racket: Can Nonprofits Avoid Hoffer’s Trap
Eric Hoffer once wrote that every great cause begins as a movement, turns into a business, and eventually becomes a racket. The line is sharp enough to…
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How Time Co-ops are Similar to SUSU – but different
A time cooperative can be understood in the same spirit as the long tradition of SUSU, though the type of exchange is different. In SUSU, people strengthen…
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Why the Wealthiest People Aren’t the Ones Who Keep the Most
We grow up under the spell of numbers. Numbers in bank accounts, numbers on price tags, numbers that are supposed to tell us whether we are succeeding…
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The Art of Not Getting Around to It
They say, “Why put off until tomorrow what you can do today?” And by “they,” I assume they mean the same people who alphabetize their sock drawers…
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Don’t Settle: Why We Must Chase Perfection to Build a Better World
There’s a tragedy in how mindlessly the days pass now. We get up. We check our phones. We pour our coffee. We trudge off to work, to…
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The Truth About Success: Why Hard Work and Sacrifice Still Matter
Nothing worth having ever comes easily. That phrase just sits there like a rock, weather-worn and unmoved, immune to trends and the latest self-help advice. You won’t…