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Microcredentials in the Angel Economy
Microcredentials are a hot new topic in the roiling debate between those who want to make credentials more meritocratic and those who want to make them less relevant. I haven’t taken sides in that debate, but I want microcredentialism to be more than a passing fad. I want to see microcredentials produce results that impact…
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The catch-22 of frugality
Frugality can be a matter of necessity or choice. Also, it can mean frugal use of money, but also of other resources such as land, energy, time, etc. It would seem that high-density housing makes relatively efficient use of land and energy. It would also seem that it costs more than low-density housing. A frugal…
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Does work undermine freedom?
John Danaher asks, “Does Work Undermine our Freedom?” As soon as I got as far as the title “Employment as a Limitation on Self-Ownership,” I reflexively thought of Abolish Human Rentals (Support Worker Cooperatives) Personally, I don’t buy the idea of “self ownership” as I consider “self” (myself, yourself or anyself) as being in a…
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Quotebag #114
kyleserikawa: One of the things that sometimes seems to get lost when people talk about the power of the market to create efficiency is that a free market requires that information be shared and freely available and understandable by everyone. When information is withheld by one side or the other of a transaction, or when…
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Public data infrastructure?
This is prompted by Who Owns Big Data? by Michael Nielsen at the “OpenMind” website. I was clued in to that post by a re-post of part of that article by Michel Bauwens at the P2P Foundation Blog. The OpenMind website doesn’t accept comments, and the P2P blog either doesn’t accept comments this long, or…
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Is anyone nostalgic for the ’70s?
Thomas Frank: Is anyone nostalgic for the ’70s? I certainly miss the seventies, and not just because I was a child then. The seventies were the age of the single adult. One reason for that, no doubt, is because that’s when the BBG happened to be passing through the “young adult” portion of the snake,…
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Monetization = value subtraction
As we speak, they’re flooding the internet with noise. Surely you can’t have not noticed just in the last few months the absolute deluge of “numbered” article titles and aggressively promoted content farms that went suddenly from either nonexistence or obscurity to apparent extreme popularity; vice, vox, upworthy, business insider, the disgustingly slick “blogging platform”…
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The real reason I am an anagorist
Trigger warning: Quoted passage at end of article contains words not approved by the FCC. It may be that the ideological self-label that I created for myself and call “anagorism” looks to some like a set of principles crafted to serve as some kind of a foundation for a social movement, or a new society,…
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Quotebag #113
Paul Lambie: Aaron [Renn] says that the government shouldn’t try to sign “gotcha” deals with private parties, but does anyone believe that the aim of private entities is not to take advantage of government officials with such deals? @vruba: Here’s the thing. Wealth is not a number of dollars. It is not a number of…
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Thingcentric accounting
In conventional accounting software such as GnuCash, a dupermarket receipt might be entered thus: A particular line item in the receipt, say the cinnamon, is charged to a certain account, and that account is debited by the $3.79 price of the cinnamon. The credit side of the transaction is to the checking account; a portion…