Future Forecasting
The Three Cycles: What’s Coming and How to Prepare
The last time three great historical cycles converged like this, the whole world changed. The world we are heading into is not the same as the one we…
Centralization
Civil Liberties
How Centralization Breeds Corruption
The last several years have shown that centralization is a major driver of corruption. When power is concentrated in one place, it creates a strong incentive for manipulative…
Financial Systems
What’s Wrong With You? Keeping Cash Alive Means Freedom
I use cash nearly exclusively, except those rare times I forget it. But I’m here to say that the demise of cash is inevitable and we need to…
Civil Liberties
Direct Democracy
Representative democracy is an agricultural-age relic — electing a distant proxy no longer represents the people it claims to serve.