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We saw life as a giving competition, not a game of trades or a reciprocity loop. And if you’re genuinely giving without the expectation of return, you create the ability to ask the same of other people. We called it the Triangulation of Goodwill.

Brett Leve • Make No Small Plans: Lessons on Thinking Big, Chasing Dreams, and Building Community

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Brett Scott • Heretic's Guide to Global Finance: Hacking the Future of Money

THE PRINCIPLES OF THE COLLABORATIVE ECONOMY 1. Open accessible assets > closed assets Open assets deliver more value than closed assets because they are more efficiently used and let us continually uncover new valuable uses. 2. More networked minds > fewer walled-in minds1 More people are smarter than fewer people, but only when they are netw

Robin Chase • Peers Inc

Trust is fast becoming our scarcest and most valuable resource.

Bernadette Jiwa • The Right Story: The secret to spreading your ideas

But, as we tackle psychology and mindsets, it’s not too hard to see people reluctant to sign up to recurring payments. Whilst there may be huge value in what you offer, as a product or a community, when there is a recurring subscription people need to show up to use it. The pressure is real.

Rosie Sherry • Not Found

After reading about the broader economic view of currency as not just money but also time, skills, and effort, he decided to start VEN, the first global peer-to-peer social currency to move from an online network into the real world.

Rachel Botsman • What's Mine Is Yours: The Rise of Collaborative Consumption

RelayRides and BlockChalk are examples of Manzini’s “fluidity of use,” the idea of removing barriers to use so that the solution is attractive and seamless to take up. Fluidity of use could be applied more widely to Collaborative Consumption. The postage system on SwapTree that automatically calculates the United States Postal Service shipping cost

Rachel Botsman • What's Mine Is Yours: The Rise of Collaborative Consumption

Recommendations for how to combat the rapid slide in subscriptions include everything from introducing smaller curated subscriptions; offering larger customized packages; developing entirely new types of membership; and doing more to attract millennials, such as “bring-a-friend” programs, monthly installment plans, and “buy now, choose later” optio

Rosie Siemer • Museum Membership Innovation: Unlocking Ideas for Audience Engagement and Sustainable Revenue

bottom-up community ecosystem that founder Pierre Omidyar calls an “of the people, by the people, for the people” environment.25