We live in a time of remarkable connection. Goods, information, and services move around the globe faster than ever before. Yet this same interconnectedness also makes our systems fragile. A […]

Sometimes I look around at our modern world and think… how did we really end up here? Then I think about it some more and see the logical progression. But […]

I’ve been exploring various socioeconomic models and I’m starting to wonder if a hybrid-type model wouldn’t be quite reasonable. From time to time one must ask oneself: why hasn’t anyone […]

You know that nagging voice that always comes while you’re sitting on the couch being taunted by your phone, the one that says “buy just one more thing online,” or […]

The “really really free market” movement – this is one of the coolest things I’ve ever seen. Someone, someone with a heart for community, organizes an event on a regular […]

What if we all decided to stop over-consuming? I’ve been thinking a lot about that lately. And for me to think about it, it must be pretty serious because, I’m […]

There are two kinds of gifts. The first is given without strings attached; no expectation of return, no mental ledger keeping. The second comes with more of an implicit contract, […]

Given the focus of my work over the last two years, I’ve been thinking a lot about how people relate to each other through the exchange of things. Not those […]

I’ve been watching this whole buy-nothing trend slip into the mainstream lately. It’s funny, in a way. We’ve somehow managed to make being broke fashionable. LOL. You can almost hear […]

Someone once said: If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go with others. I really love this saying. It has encapsulated, in a […]