When I interviewed Charles Eisenstein, author of the book "Sacred Economics," for the Interviews with the Leading Edge series, one of the things Charles discussed is what he calls the gift economy. A gift economy is one in which people act in a way without profit motive as their primary reason for doing something. Instead, they perform their service or sell their wares, and let others decide a dollar value for that service. Radiohead used this … [Read more...]
Towards an Open Future
“There is a concept which corrupts and upsets all others. I refer not to Evil, whose limited realm is that of ethics, I refer to the infinite.” – Jorge Luis Borges, in Avatars of the Tortoise Let's start with a basic supposition: open systems succeed, while closed systems fail. What do I mean by a system? A system is anything comprised of complexity: it can be one single individual or a group, forming a collective or organization. An … [Read more...]