Observations on the human condition
A colleague from the WiseValue group, Tim, has been part of our weekly conversations exploring what a post-money coordination system would need to do — not just what it would need to displace. What follows is his own working-through of that ground, in his own voice: starting from foundational principles of voluntary participation and non-compulsory … Read more
AI, Matching and the Propagation of Knowledge Tim, an active participant in our weekly WiseValue discussions, produced this article which offers his unique perspective on the transition from money as the basis of organisation to direct value handling: Recent discussions about AI, Direct Autonomous Cooperative Social Organizations (DACSOs), and post-money systems suggest that we may … Read more
A Short Story The farm smell was the first thing — not bad, just animal and green and older than anywhere Isla had lived, which was quite a few places. Mum had said it would be different. Mum always said that. They’d arrived after dark, which meant Isla had seen nothing properly — just shapes, … Read more
Alex just posted this article on LinkedIn: The financial world is currently fixated on tokenisation. From “Tokenised Money: Use Cases, Interoperability and Regulation” the 2026 research of the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance, Cambridge Judge Business School to the passage of the GENIUS Act in the United States, the narrative is clear: digitising money is … Read more
Over the dozen or so years that we’ve been doing this work (discovery of how the world and life works) it has become evident that the narrative horizon has expanded progressively beyond the “authorised” tramlines of discussion. I suggested in an interview last week, that in order to regain control of the narrative, the structure … Read more
In our recent paper on the emerging organisational paradigm, we refer to the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to aid us in our understanding of complex systems and structures and to be able to optimise resources and efforts for the greatest benefit. The ideological foundations and philosophical threads that underpin the centrally planned implementation of … Read more
Some years ago, before AI was commonplace as a term, I speculated: The co-creative learning methodology led us understand who rules, how and why? If “agnostic” AI were given free reign to explore who rules, how and why?, would it not arrive at the same conclusions? Michael Finesilver’s essay navigates this and associated questions comprehensively: … Read more