Oct 28Capitulating on today’s Capitalism — kind of.During the last 2–3 decades, governments, NGOs, corporations, and tech start-ups have applied colossal efforts to address the environmental-based externalities of the economy by creating “markets”. While making incremental gains, all have failed to achieve the goal of creating “real” markets. While this is intellectually obvious, society has not accepted…Economics5 min readEconomics5 min read
Oct 23The “Tragedy of the Economy”The “tragedy of the economy” is that it contains as much value outside the economic systems as inside the economic systems. Think of the “Economy” as all the value that ebbs and flows through society, and then think of the “Economic Systems” as what we use to account for and…Economist6 min readEconomist6 min read
Oct 7Economic Externality Headwinds and the No-Go ZoneImagine beginning on a journey in unchartered waters with a constant and massive headwind. But that is not the biggest obstacle. The greatest obstacle is that you don’t know you are facing a massive headwind. …Ecocommerce5 min readEcocommerce5 min read
Aug 6An AI Ode to “When the Force of the Source of Currency runs its Course”In days of yore, the mighty source, A currency’s determined course, The US dollar, gold’s embrace, For fifty-four years held its place. From eighteen seventy-nine it shone, Till nineteen thirty-three was gone, The golden standard stood so strong, Yet change would come ere long. . Bretton Hills, a model new, …Cryptocurrency2 min readCryptocurrency2 min read
Published inCoinmonks·Jul 30How to Create a Hybrid, Quasi, Non-Fiat Cryptocurrency & WhyOne future of money is in a hybrid, quasi, non-fiat cryptocurrency form. Not just for monies sake, but to address the complexity of socio-economic issues, or so-called wicked issues. In 1973, Rittel & Weber (1973) introduced wicked problems as embedded socio-economic issues. …Cryptocurrency10 min readCryptocurrency10 min read
Jul 1EcoCommerce as an S-ES Scientific Method ApplicationThis article proposes we are unable to solve our most complex societal problems because we lack the methodology to do so. For 400 years, the Scientific Method has guided us to solve technical and scientific (tame) problems, and it remains useful to solve a portion of our socio-economic problems. …Ecocommerce5 min readEcocommerce5 min read
Jun 18Introducing the Socio-Economic Sustainability Scientific MethodThe 400-year-old Scientific Method is not dead, rather it has given birth to the Socio-Economic Sustainability Scientific Method (S-ES SM) The roots of the S-ES SM go back to 1973, when Rittel and Weber introduced wicked problems as socially embedded complex issues. How to resolve them was on their mind. …Ecocommerce7 min readEcocommerce7 min read
Jun 11The Aging Out of the Scientific Method and the Birth of S-ES SMSociety needs a new problem-solving methodology today, just like it needed the Scientific Methodology in the 1600s. We cannot achieve the future we desire with the same methodology. Period. It has been a good 400-year run, but the Scientific Method has run its course as the primary process and mindset…Scientific Method7 min readScientific Method7 min read
May 27Tragedy of the Economy: Cruising on a Single-Hull Economic SystemThe root of the “tragedy of the economy” (Gieseke, 2011) is embedded in the thin fiat currency model and it is exasperated by the lack of a coherent natural capital accounting system. The “tragedy of the commons” (Hardin, 1968) is a sub-tragedy of an economic system that this void of…Economics4 min readEconomics4 min read
Published inCoinmonks·Apr 30The Force of the Source of MoneyWe talk about [the love of] Money being the root [of evil] but we seldom talk of the root of the Money. That is where the energy lies, it is where an economic system gets its force. Economic systems are manifestations of the force of the source of its money…Money5 min readMoney5 min read
