Will Storr’s The Status Game: On Human Life and How to Play It is an incisive, often unsettling, look at one of the most fundamental forces shaping human behavior: our relentless pursuit of status. With a journalist’s sharp eye and a psychologist’s depth of inquiry, Storr makes the case that…
The World of Ends
It is not the end of the world – not in the apocalyptic sense, at least. The oceans haven’t boiled. The stars haven’t blinked out. The earth spins on, indifferent to our tantrums and triumphs. Yet, as we sip lukewarm coffee in dim-lit rooms and scroll through the curated chaos…
From Wall Street to Main Street: How Small Communities Can Harness the Power of Networks
Sandra Navidi’s Superhubs brings us a penetrating look at how financial elites consolidate influence—not through individual power alone, but by embedding themselves in high-value networks. The book’s core insight, rooted in Metcalfe’s Law, is that the value of a network grows exponentially as more participants join. While this dynamic has…
Time Banking Apathy
For more than three decades, time banking has floated on the fringes of economic innovation—a well-intentioned, intellectually rigorous idea championed by the likes of Edgar Cahn and others. Its premise is simple: participants trade hours of service rather than currency, creating a volunteer-based economy of sorts. In theory, it is…
Are You an Indentured Servant? – No, Seriously!
Indentured servitude was once a contract entered into with the hope of escape—escape from poverty, from stagnation, from a life that promised nothing beyond mere subsistence. It was a promise of eventual freedom, bought at the cost of years of toil. Today, the contract is less explicit, but the structure…
“Superhubs: How the Financial Elite and Their Networks Rule Our World” by Sandra Navidi – a review
The world of global finance is often seen as a battleground of individual titans—billionaires, hedge fund wizards, central bankers—each seemingly acting of their own accord, moving markets with sheer force of will. But in Superhubs: How the Financial Elite and Their Networks Rule Our World, Sandra Navidi dismantles that myth,…
A Perfect Storm: The Economic Collapse of 2025-2026
The world economy is no stranger to upheaval. The Great Depression, the stagflation of the 1970s, the dot-com bubble, and the 2008 financial crisis each had their own catalysts—stock market crashes, oil price shocks, financial mismanagement. What we’re seeing now, however, is different. The crisis unfolding in 2025 isn’t just…
Beyond Money: A Society Built on Contribution
The measure of value in any society determines its shape. For centuries, money has been the standard by which we assess worth. It dictates access, defines opportunity, and reduces human relations to transactions. We think of wealth in terms of accumulation, of resources stored rather than acts performed. But what…
The Footprint of a Man
There is a certain kind of fellow who drifts through life as a leaf upon the wind, content to neither hinder nor help, and another who, like the ox, treads heavily and thoughtlessly, leaving a rut where once there was firm ground. Then there is the rare man who moves…
How to Make Any Life More Fulfilling
Dream, Create, Grow—these three words sum up a philosophy that echos the essence of the human journey. They are not just actions; they are principles that define who we are, what we strive for, and the legacy we leave behind. To live fully is to embrace these three pillars as…