Monthly Archives: May 2024

Blessings

It’s mother’s day. Some get to celebrate with loved ones, while others navigate the bittersweet reality of bereavement or estrangement. My heart is with you all. If there’s one lesson I’ve learned these past few years it is the importance of love, even across distance, even when it may appear to be unreciprocated. The system […]

Creative Placemaking As Cryptographic Cultural Computation

I’ll be leaving Philadelphia tomorrow after the house closing paperwork is signed. The cleaners are getting it ready for its new family. A chapter closes, a new one opens. I’ll slowly make my way down to Little Rock, camping along the way. After three back-to-back, three-day, 1,300-mile u-haul drives in as many weeks, I’m sick […]

Could Bobby’s Tokenized Environmental Markets Really Be About Using Web3 to Game Quantum Mechanics?

This will be my last post for a few weeks. During my trips down to Arkansas, I’ve been reading Gary Zukav’s 1979, “The Dancing Wu Li Masters,” a lay person’s guide to the “new” physics that emerged out of meetings he had at Esalen, home base for the human potential movement. I recognize there continue […]

Austin’s Learn Capital Takes A Field Trip to the Vatican To Talk Entrepreneurial Social Impact

Late last April, Lynn Davenport and I recorded a conversation unpacking the visit Evan Baehr, managing partner and social impact investor with Learn Capital, made to the Vatican in the fall of 2022 for the Humanity 2.0 conference hosted in partnership with Harvard University. I think it is useful to consider Humanity 2.0 as an […]