This post began life as a Twitter thread here, so forgive any oddities in formatting and flow!
I’m a Digital Nomad. For the last 13 months, my family and I have been traveling around the world. We spend 1-3 months in each city we visit. We started in Central America, but have spent the bulk of our time in Western Europe. This is a short thread of things I’ve learned. Continue reading…
The idea behind universal basic income (UBI), in which one’s government would provide every citizen in a country with a set amount of cash each month, is thought by some to be a potential panacea to our global inequality and under/unemployment woes.
But to many others the idea is ludicrous and utterly unsustainable. So which is it?
Some countries and cities have run or are running pilot tests, and while it’s still quite early, it seems unlikely that UBI is going to work exactly as planned. Of course, it’s not that UBI isn’t helpful or beneficial to the people receiving it…it is, more or less across the board.
Rather, it’s the seemingly insurmountable hurdle of figuring out how to make UBI happen, effectively and sustainably for everyone over the long-term (particularly in well developed countries), without breaking the bank or collapsing consumption driven economies.
For better or worse, the idea of UBI has been gaining traction rapidly in the minds of the people in recent years.
Why? Automation. And fear. Continue reading…
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A few weeks ago I read a blog post written by Scott Adams, the creator of Dilbert, that prompted me to take a much closer look at Donald Trump. Scott has been blogging frequently regarding something he calls the Master Wizard Hypothesis, which is essentially the premise that Trump is far, far more than he appears, and that his success in this race shouldn’t be surprising. Seriously, whether you love Trump or hate him, those blog posts are worth reading.
After digging in to Scott’s posts, and doing a ton of research of my own, I felt like I’d seen and heard enough to buy into the theory, so I wrote a post for Entrepreneur exploring some of the psychological tactics that Trump seems to be using to get ahead.
Thanks to that post, I was invited to hop on the radio this afternoon with Dr. Drew to talk a bit more about Trump and his tactics (or lack thereof, depending on your point of view). You can listen to that conversation below, or download it here (my bit starts at 1m 55s).
After chatting with Dr. Drew and his guest Dr. Ramani Durvasula, I noodled a bit more on some of the topics covered on the call, and wanted to dive into those thoughts in more depth.
Afters years of writing and many long months of pre-launch marketing work, Screw the Zoo is officially in the wild!! If you haven’t already ordered your copy, you can pick one up on Amazon here (and if you have already ordered your copy, then YOU ROCK!)
But wait, there’s more…In honor of launch week, I’m running a contest! Here are the details: Continue reading…
Man, blogging with regularity is hard! I sit down, stare at the screen, and think, shit, I’ve already put all my best thoughts in the book, so what do I write here?
And then, the aha moment: well, if my best thoughts thus far are in the book, then perhaps I should just post my favorite chapters from the book.
So, over the next few months, I’ll be doing exactly that. 2-3 times per week, I’ll be putting up a chapter from the book, along with some extended material to help round it out (videos, links to other resources, etc.)
Beyond that, if there’s any subject you really want to see covered on here, please let me know in the comments!
