https://youtu.be/4s151fZWD2Y Quality of Life (Video 7 minutes) Our problems with business, government, and the environment should provoke rarely asked questions. For example, should the purpose of a business be to make money, to please customers, or much, much more?...
By Mike Hall. Compression advocates a social challenge for humans to seek and learn a lifestyle of “Doing Better With Less”. The concept seems easy to acknowledge given our current observed decline of nature and limited resources. But intelligence (mental and...
Ours to Hack and to Hold: The Rise of Platform Cooperativism, a New Vision for the Future of Work and a Fairer Internet, Edited by Trebor Scholz and Nathan Schneider. This book is unusual. First, it’s not to be released officially until August, but poke around and...
https://youtu.be/I4iLmHpM274 Healthcare and the Quality of All Life Human health depends on all human systems, plus nature’s systems. But we seldom think of health care that way. We define it as intervention when things go wrong – as curative care to restore health....
An American Sickness: How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take It Back by Elisabeth Rosenthal, MD Why does curative care cost so much? Rosenthal explains many of the reasons by muckraking American healthcare in gory detail. Not only an experienced MD,...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNrAKUdkm0Y Doc Hall: Wicked Problems (Video 6 minutes) We will be doing more about wicked problems on this blog. A comment about the video: at the end, Jose the owner of the restaurant said that his wicked problem at the time was...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_PfZCBeaig Coffee With Doc: EDUCE. Educe: Education that Learns By Jack Ring Whether children or adults, most of us love to learn; we don’t like to be taught – told by an authority. Great “teachers” know this. They guide each...
The Econocracy: The Perils of Leaving Economics to the Experts by Joe Earle, Cahal Moran, and Zach Ward-Perkins This book attracted interest because it is associated with Rethinking Economics, a gestating global movement of renegade graduate students in economics bent...