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What would a therapy camp for billionaires look like?
Listen to this essay 31 minute listen I cannot remember a time when I was not conscious of wealth. At the age of seven, attending a private Quaker school in Cambridge, Massachusetts, I was embarrassed when wealthier friends from the Boston suburbs came over to my house, which was small, compared with theirs. Later, living in Arlington, Virginia, and at a public school, I felt the opposite: sheepish about a house that was grander than some of my friends’ homes.
Therapy for billionaires - Alexa Clay
Therapy for billionaires As my grandfather’s billions taught, wealth can be a poison. The rich must reckon with its costs to recover their humanity The author, aged six months, with her mother at Cape Ann in Massachusetts, 1984. All photos supplied by the author is a writer and researcher in pursuit of misfit subcultures. She is the US director of the Royal Society of Arts, and the co-author of The Misfit Economy (2015). Her writing has appeared in Wired, The Guardian and Vice, among others.
Why Entrepreneurs Need To Remain Humble (in fewer than 200 words) - UNREASONABLE
In a world filled with hubris and ego-maniacs, it is the humble leader that has the greatest influence. Read on to discover the true meaning of humility and why it’s so important to building a great organization. The author of this post, Seth Levine, is a Boulder, CO based technology investor and managing director at Foundry Group. This advice would seem obvious, if only more people followed it.
Steal Your Own Identity: The Creative Boost of an Alter Ego
Alter egos aren’t just for Beyonce and David Bowie The fun of alter egos is that you get to un-brand or re-mix yourself. We are constantly living in a world with self-commodifying pressures, from the social media sites where we package ourselves to the practice of resumé creation or networks like LinkedIn that ask us to serve up cohesive and linear narratives of our functional time spent on earth.
Like start-ups, most intentional communities fail – why? | Aeon Essays
At 16, Martin Winiecki dropped out of school and left his home in the German city of Dresden to live full-time at Tamera, a 300-acre intentional community in the rolling hills of southwestern Portugal. His mother and father – a doctor and a professor of mathematics – were reluctant to let him go. ‘It was quite a shock for them,’ Winiecki remembers. Born in 1990, just a few months after the collapse of the Berlin wall, Winiecki came of age in a society in limbo.
4 Principles For Creating Change, And 4 Barriers That Make It Harder
Many people now are struggling to make change; to drive social or environmental impact whether they are social entrepreneurs or people working from within organizations to make a difference. In this piece, we wanted to focus on thinking about how communities of change makers can thrive.
Instead Of Just Eliminating Jobs, Automation Could Usher In A More Fair Economy
As robots become smarter, they are replacing more and more jobs. Does that have to mean people are out of work? Or can it mean that people work better and safer? Look deeply into the beady little electronic eye of your vacuum-cleaning robot, and you’ll see a machine bent on world domination. For now, it focuses on finding and eradicating dirt, but every time it gets into a particularly extracted fight with a wall, your feet, or a house pet—you know it has larger ambitions.
Deviant Entrepreneurs and the Criminal Underground: What Is Guerrilla Marketing?
The genesis of my book, “The Misfit Economy,” started as a joke. Having spent two years at Ashoka, an organization committed to seeking out and supporting social entrepreneurs around the world, it started to become a little comedic relief in the office to think about how we could pivot our “search and selection” towards the criminal underground.
5 Persuasion Tricks You Can Steal From Con Artists
The years New Yorker writer Maria Konnikova spent interviewing con artists for her book The Confidence Game didn't make her like these expert hustlers any more, but it did make her respect their skills. "We shouldn't forget that these are bad people who ruin lives," Konnikova told the Guardian. "But of course you have a grudging admiration for them because they're really, really good at what they do. The name 'con artist' really does capture it.
How Outsider Businesses Are Going
By Alexa Clay4 minute Read Moonshine. Camel milk. Cannabis. Once only products of the gray and black market economies, decriminalization is bringing a new wave of underground goods to consumers across the U.S. In Gatlinburg, Tennessee, I met with Matt O’Daniel, 26, known to his friends as ODamnit. O’Daniel had been brewing do-it-yourself black market moonshine in the Ozark Mountains before he found a job at Sugarlands as a distiller.
Debunking a Myth: Why and How To Do Business With Friends
If I’ve learned anything over the years, it’s that you should only do business with friends: with people you trust, admire, enjoy being around, and with people who make you laugh. Of course, there are good ways and there are bad ways of going about working with friends. Below I’ve included four major things I’ve learned from trial and error about diving into working relationships and partnerships with those I consider to be my closest friends.
Are Hackers the new Bankers?
Being jet-lagged I was up until 7 am this morning and decided to scrap my usual presentation in favor of a more embodied reflection on money and a new spirit of capitalism I hope is beginning to take root in some of our financial institutions. The result is the text below: part sermon, part delirious life pondering. My parents came from two different worlds. My father was a proper Horatio Alger story.
Violence is contagious: Stopping its transmission became the mission of the man who’d fought TB and cholera in Somalia
A RELUCTANT HACKER, A LATE-BLOOMING MISFITGary Slutkin, M.D., was never a misfit. A physician by training, a “very conventional training,” he added, Dr. Slutkin had devoted himself to designing behavior change and epidemic control programs. As a chief resident at the prestigious San Francisco General Hospital, Slutkin worked on a tuberculosis prevention program.
What Criminals Can Teach Us About Creativity
TIME Health society What Criminals Can Teach Us About Creativity Subscriber content preview. or Sign In Creativity comes from scarcity Sitting in a classroom with a number of ex-cons–two former drug dealers, a murderer and an identity thief–we asked a simple question: Where does creativity come from? For those who had just spent time in prison, the answer was simple: scarcity. “Look around this room,” we were told. … To continue reading: or Sign In
Can live-action role-play games bring about social change?
One Sunday evening recently, I went to a stranger’s apartment for my first ‘larp’ (live‑action role-play). I was ushered into the living room, where I found three makeshift tents, reminiscent of forts I used to make as a child. Other props – trail snacks, water bottles, hiking gear – littered the floor. It was a little like arriving at a four-year-old’s playdate. I wasn’t sure my make‑believe skills were what they used to be.
Wasn’t I special enough to be abducted by aliens?
My younger brother and I called him ‘the old lizard’ (on account of his reptilian resemblance — and to irk our mother, his partner at the time). To his enemies, he was a crackpot, fraud, and a cheat. And to his patients, and many of his friends, he was a source of support, an open listener, a sage and protector. Dr John E Mack was many things to many people.
5 Tips For Growing Changemaking Communities In Your Company
By Alexa Clay3 minute Read Editor’s Note Read more tips for intrapreneurs: • 5 Ways Intrapreneurs Can Make The Business Case For Change At Their Company • 5 Tips From Social Intrapreneurs On How To Navigate Complex Corporate Politics Recently, I’ve been thinking about the power of entourage. Not the Hollywood bros kind, not the rapper’s crew, but the often invisible communities of support that exist behind every great person.
The Economy of Punishment
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The 4 Ways Big Corporations Flirt With Socially Responsible Business
By Alexa Clay and Jon Camfield3 minute Read The last decade has given rise to many experiments by companies to incubate socially responsible business models. Large financial institutions have become hosts to microfinance divisions (Citi, Morgan Stanley). Energy companies have experimented with base-of-the-pyramid business models for emerging markets, aligning social utility (access to energy) with business strategy (long term growth).
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