A historical collection of our writing.
This morning I will be on a panel at Columbia University about Universal Basic Income (UBI) and the climate crisis as part of a conference on the Green New Deal . In my view UBI should be a central component of a Green New Deal instead of the jobs guarantee. Here are my reasons: 1. […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
Here we are again in 2019 debating speech online and specifically the case of Facebook. Zuckerberg speaks at Georgetown trying to invoke the civil rights movement and to draw a sharp distinction to China . Warren quickly fires back on Twitter. Pundits everywhere weigh in. And yet hardly anyone gets […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
It is fascinating to see at the moment how much China is flexing its power. And maybe as importantly how little the world is pushing back. Certainly on the commercial side we are finding that companies such as Apple which are beholden to China for their supply chain and others, such as the NBA, […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
Last Monday in my series about the climate crisis , I posted about the potential of reversing the carbon cycle : grow plants to remove carbon from the atmosphere and put it back into the ground. Here now are some numbers that show the viability of this approach. Let’s start with a bit more data […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
Back to writing about the climate crisis . Today is the beginning of a week of action by Extinction Rebellion – they are pushing for carbon neutrality by 2025. As promised before I will start looking at solutions. Following my post on greenhouse gases , it is pretty clear that there are […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
As investors in Algorand and node runners on the network, we welcome the first Algorand Economic Improvement Proposal (EIP). Since the launch of the mainnet and the start of trading of the Algo it has become clear that the daily supply growth is too large relative to the state of adoption. Algorand […] Read more
