In this vein, I would describe four predominant categories of world views regarding capitalism: believers, reformers, apostates and prophets. I use religious terminology because our adherence to capitalism is a religion of sorts: the world is built on ideas, and capitalism is one dogma with an enormously outsized influence. We have broadly adhered ... See more

I don’t believe there is a future for humans with capitalism still around. It may look to others like there is no way that capitalism can ever go, and that a system based on global gifting and integrative decision making is simply impossible and naïve. My claim is exactly the opposite: that anything that retains the ways in which capitalism functio... See more

One of his observations is that when any aspect of a living system is torn from its contextual relationships, it can then be exploited. How a description is made of a person, a family, a community, a culture, or an ecosystem –matters.

“We seem to have been living for a long time on the assumption that we can safely deal with parts, leaving the whole to take care of itself.

But now the news from everywhere is that we have to begin gathering up the scattered pieces, figuring out where they belong, and putting them back together. For the parts can be reconciled to one another only

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How does a self-organizing team make decisions together? Should they just talk until they agree? Should everyone get a vote? And when they vote, is every vote the same?

But as I explore autumn’s paradox of dying and seeding, I feel the power of metaphor. In the autumnal events of my own experience, I am easily fixated on surface appearances—on the decline of meaning, the decay of relationships, the death of a work.

What is happening to the relationship between trust and money? If you think about trust being a confident relationship with the unknown and you think about situations in context; whether it's high trust where you don't need to know what that person is doing or how that systems works, I struggle with this idea that through blockchain and increased t... See more

It’s an intriguing concept to those who are not accustomed to this financial way of life. According to Iqbal, “The Americans, they do it one time, then they don’t want to do it any more.”

Part of what I feel is important right now is to be in the system and to be creating these pockets and spaces and kind of stretching the constraints of people deeply in the current broken system to think differently, to expand their perspective, to exercise their moral imagination to look at a situation from a seven generations in the future, or fr... See more