I woke up this morning thinking about poverty. Wondering if poverty is something we made up, along with land ownership and rights to...

The future of business is value sharing Every now and then, the future arrives. But the future always arrives in pieces, tiny little...

For several years, I ran around stringing together ideas that felt half-baked and improperly incentive aligned. I knew they carried the...

A year ago, I posted that Italy was giving away castles which absolutely blew up with over 100 comments. It turned out that most of the...

How the sharing economy points to shared value in organizations Will the next wave of the sharing economy be even more influential than...

I was recently at Connect Ukraine in Kiev where I spoke about: the sharing economy ownership models questioning who owns what and...

How philosophy became the casualty of modern economics, politics, and science — and what we can do about it As a small child, I sang...

I found myself at a very small, but luminary event at the Exploratorium in San Francisco this week with VCs, tech pioneers, psychedelic...

Community. Such an interesting and complex word. I wrote a few words on community years back, trying to break down and open up the pieces...

Since the sharing economy went into mainstream Unicorn America, I’ve been questioning the validity of workers who are incentivized to...

I’ve decided to start listening to what other leaders in the sharing/collaborative/on-demand economy are saying these days and give my...

1. Beer and conversation at airport While waiting for my flight to board from a stopover in Hong Kong to Denpasar, this friendly-looking...

“Welcome to the world of codependent contracting, where wage cut is recast as a software upgrade.” My thoughts: In the on-demand economy...

Last evening, I attended two different book talks in San Francisco (read: intellectual discussions regarding the state of democracy and...

I woke up this morning after dreaming about these words and waking in between, as reflected below. The earth lives and breathes with the...

As I begin to discover and understand cooperative business models, I’m going to share my learnings with you. As a sharing economy...

With so many efficiencies generated by technology, the sharing economy is going through an interesting transition. People are recognizing...

The story of our economy is externalized and reinforced through our thoughts and actions. But, we’ve become robots to systems that no...

Sometimes an entire year can fly by without warning and it can seem like nothing major happened even though there were many great...

Last evening, I watched an advance screening of Linda Lovelace, the story of a porn star. This was the directors cut and the story of a...