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  • Direct, immediate exchange

    According to the Governor of the Bank of England: There is no reason products and services could not be swapped directly by consumers and producers through a system of direct exchange – essentially a massive barter economy. All it requires is some commonly used unit of account and adequate computing power to make sure all…

  • Open Enterprise

    Good 8 minute talk on the open enterprise. You see this emerging to a more or lesser extent at an increasing number of organizations (which may be a threat to some of the staff). Key points:

  • Banken Bonus Battle

    Dan Roam doet het rookgordijn dat de superrijken hebben opgetrokken—Miljardairs 50 procent rijker in 2009—glashelder uit de doeken. A couple weeks ago Dan Roam met with potential clients at an investment bank in New York. President Obama had just announced that he was going to levy a $120 billion fee on Wall Street Banks to…

  • Geluksbedrading standaard

    Geluk: Srikumar Rao: Plug into your hard-wired happiness rough transcription of Srikumar Rao’s talk You do not have to get, be or do anything to be happy. What you can get, you also can unget, right? If you unget everything, are you still happy? Being happy is your innate nature. You have spent your entire…

  • Flow money

    Moved to https://martien.substack.com/flow-money

  • The “Soul Hypothesis”

    Deepak Chopra salvo’s another interesting round of points on religion, science, God, Einstein, and such. *[http://deepakchopra.com/the-soul-hypothesis/ The “Soul Hypothesis”, Part 1] *[http://deepakchopra.com/the-soul-hypothesis-part-2/ The “Soul Hypothesis”, Part 2] *[http://deepakchopra.com/the-soul-hypothesis-part-3/ The “Soul Hypothesis”, Part 3] *[http://deepakchopra.com/the-soul-hypothesis-part-4/ The “Soul Hypothesis”, Part 4] *[http://deepakchopra.com/2008/03/03/the-soul-hypothesis-part-5/ The “Soul Hypothesis”, Part 5] Make room for thougth. A couple of key points: *Atheism…

  • Helping others makes us happy

    How coincidental. Yesterday [http://www.dreammanifesto.com/about-us Thomas Herald] from [http://www.dreammanifesto.com/ Dream Manifesto] writes about [http://www.dreammanifesto.com/longest-running-study-shows-helping-others-makes-us-happy.html Longest running study shows helping others makes us happy]. And today I receive [http://tut.com/mike_dooley.htm Mike Dooley]’s [http://www.tut.com/nftu.htm Note From The Universe], stating the same: :First, as a child, it seems like the entire world is there for you and you rush to…

  • Brad Neuberg on Inventing with Values

    Verbatim copy of EEK’s blog entry. Thanks EEK, for sharing this. Brad Neuberg on Inventing with Values: A few months ago, my friend, BradNeuberg, gave the keynote at Yahoo’s internal Front-End Engineering Summit. The video is now online, and it’s worth watching. Brad’s not only a great guy and a great hacker, he’s an excellent…

  • Stroomtaal × pareltaal = krachtstroomtaal

    Gaston Vilé tipt me op ”’stroomtaal”’® toen hij aan het snuffelen was op zonnespel. Prachtig! Als taalfan spreekt mij stroomtaal bijzonder aan en doet me direct denken aan ”’versterkend taalgebruik”’, waar ik ook enorme fan van ben. Kees van Zijtveld heeft me daar ooit op geattendeerd en sindsdien ga ik enorm bewust met taal om.…

  • Resultaten uit het verleden waarderen

    Omdat we fase 1 van het [http://aloha.aardrock.com Aloha-project] netjes willen afsluiten en een eventuele toekomstige verdeling van baten helder willen hebben doen we nu alvast een [http://wiki.aardrock.com/Oprechte_deelgeving oprechte deelgeving]—met een fictieve pot geld—zodat we daarmee later de [http://wiki.aardrock.com/Resultaten_uit_het_verleden resultaten uit het verleden] billijk kunnen verrekenen. Ach, wat een mooi pareltje.

  • Nomad

    Nicole Recourt sent me email on Ramsay’s film on giving and receiving from our planet Earth: :I’ve been organising a cross media project, film-documentry-internet series-book whose purpose is to follow four people travelling to remote parts of the planet in search of Nomadic tribes. Nicol says Ramsey is talking with one of our universities to…

  • Love—The Purest Form of Energy

    To Love is a verb, so hard work it is. And Love (with a capital L, in order not to be confused with its romantic meaning), passion, is the ultimate source of energy, strength and creativeness in the universe. My energy, my love, is focused on creating and nourishing a family, an organization, and software…