Observations on the human condition
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
Two ways of standing before the machine, and why they no longer meet Two pieces landed together this week, arriving from opposite ends of the map. One traced £5 billion of drone spending back to the familiar question of who owns the systems and who becomes dependent on them. The other traced the same data … Read more
Hundreds of millions are already participating in a new economy I posted my article in the Light in May this year, promising a follow-up article on how we handle value at scale is changing. To read this second article, click here – see page 2 There is a third article, awaiting publication, which explains how … Read more
For those who feel the transition is still somewhere ahead, it may be closer than it appears Something is becoming visible that the dominant narrative has no language for. Not a protest, not a movement, not a political programme. Something quieter and more durable: a parallel way of organising life that has been growing, largely … 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
Six degrees of separation. The idea that any two people on Earth are connected through no more than six intermediate acquaintances has been around since the 1920s. LinkedIn built a business on it — and Microsoft paid $26 billion to own it. But here is what that number actually means: the network already exists. It … Read more
A fifth-dimensional love-field model of time, and its consequences for coordination and value Two short documents circulated recently within the WiseValue group that deserve careful attention. They arrived not as finished arguments but as an unfolding inquiry — the kind of genuine question that carries more signal than most polished conclusions. What follows is an … Read more
How Tokenised Money-Market Funds Magnify Systemic Risk and Accelerate Extraction at the Top by Alex Nikolov Following on from Alex’s articles, Borrowed Stability and The Forest of the Order, he expands his critique of stablecoins and the measures granting BlackRock extraordinary privilege and power. I. The Next Act in the Stable Circus In a previous … Read more
My article linked below appears (page 13) in Issue 68 of The Light, a free, independently distributed monthly paper that asks the questions the mainstream won’t. This edition carries sharp structural analysis worth reading alongside it: Rusere Shoniwa traces the managed transition of global capital through the BRICS framework, while Escape Key dissects how the … Read more
Following on from yesterday’s post on The forest of the Order, Alex explains the current noise around Stablecoins ignores the obvious: stablecoins are neither “stable”, nor innovative or revolutionary but merely intensification of the extractive logic of the money paradigm. There is an alternative coordination layer which is both innovative and evolutionary which is what … Read more
Book Review. A review of John Macgregor, The Mechanics of Changing the World: Political Architecture to Roll Back State & Corporate Power — by Clive Menzies John Macgregor’s The Mechanics of Changing the World arrives at a moment when the literature on democratic decline is long on diagnosis and short on remedy. His stated ambition … Read more