What BJJ Can Teach Us About The Difference Between Bitcoin and Ethereum — Although I am working on a platform, Global Unity, that happens to integrate blockchain and a cryptocurrency into its design, I’m a total novice when it comes to the space, so take everything I say with a grain (pound?) of salt. Most of my time over the last few decades…

In their popular 2022 paper, Decentralized Society: Finding Web3’s Soul, Vitalik Buterin, Puja Ohlaver, and Glen Weyl introduce the concept of DeSoc — decentralised society — based on a few principles: local knowledge — those who are closest to the problem have the most knowledge about it; local control —…

Or: What Systems Thinking Can Teach Us About Changing The World — Systems thinking teacher, the late Russel Ackoff teaches an elegant framework — the 4 ways of addressing problems, which exist on a hierarchy. Most people people think of the third as the peak method of addressing problems, not aware that there is one higher. The four ways: Absolution — ignoring…

“We have to be able to work at unprecedented scales in unprecedented ways to address the unprecedented issues that we face. If we stay in our individual organizations and are only focused on our one piece of the puzzle or our slice of the issue without ever coordinating at larger…

If we lived in a tribe of 150 people, 75 women, 75 men — and 25 of the women were under attack, what kind of men would we be by not doing anything to stop it? Does it matter if it’s 150 or 15 million, or 7 billion? …

I had a pretty powerful experience yesterday. I had Divya Siddarth of RadicalXChange in a Decentralized Governance room on Clubhouse, an invite-only, conversation-only audio app that has recently seen explosive growth. …

2020 has just come to a close. A tumultuous year for many and for the world as a whole. When things got shaky, we all worked together — we stayed home, we kept to social circles and for the most part, we did our part to stem the disease. In…

Every year between Christmas and New Year’s, I take a week in solitude, isolating myself, ignoring email, avoiding the phone and all other distractions — and I dream. Most years I go away to LA, but just as often I stay here in Toronto and go through a specific practice…

I had one of the most wonderful weekends in recent memory. RadicalXChange, a growing movement/community introducing and testing innovations around everything from economy and currency to voting and democracy to ownership and governance to art and storytelling. The opening talk was by the digital minister of Taiwan, Audrey Tang who shared the mind-blowing, heartwarming, imagination-sparking successes the people and government of…