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Latest — Sep 23, 2025

How an Ice Cream Meltdown Sparked a Corporate Revolution

To understand the birth of benefit corporations, you must go back to the year 2000 and the acquisition of Ben & Jerry’s by Unilever. When Unilever made an offer in 2000 to acquire Ben & Jerry’s for $326 million, the Ben & Jerry’s board found itself in

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Ecosia: The Little Search Engine Who Could

If you’re a follower of tech and anti-trust law, you’re aware that Google was found guilty of anti-competitive practices a year ago. Since then, U.S. District Court Judge Amit P. Mehta has been considering behavioral remedies to correct Google’s naughty behavior. But what you may have

How a Shoe Launch Led Me to Mohawk Ironworkers and Missing Women

Well, we’re going down the rabbit hole this week, led there not by the white rabbit of Alice’s Wonderland, but by a trickster rabbit of Native American lore. Tricksters play an important role in Native mythology, culture, and society. The rabbit trickster represents the triumph of the underdog

Rise of the American Jellyfish

Lickspittle. Now there’s a world. While I’ve long known of the word and its definition, I became reacquainted with it recently. Simply saying it is fun. Go ahead and try: Lick Spittle. Honoring its onomatopoetic roots makes it easy to visualize the attendant sounds: a lick, and then

AI Breaks It, AI Buys It

Four Ways to Make Technology Pay for Job Displacement In my last post (From Dust Bowl to Digital Displacement) I raised the specter of AI creating massive job loss. So, how do we pay for job retraining or even the hallelujah state promised by AI CEOs of finding our bliss

From Dust Bowl to Digital Displacement: Will We Need Another New Deal?

Reader and Godspeed supporter Emma Mattson engaged me recently in a conversation about purpose at work, pointing me to an old episode of The Ezra Klein Show. (The Case Against Loving Your Job, aired in 2021, worth the listen, and deeply influencing Emma’s view on the subject.) I listened,

The Ice (Cream) Man Cometh

With apologies to Eugene O’Neill for the headline – I just couldn’t resist 😉 – meet my old friend Jake Heusinkveld. Let’s call him the “Ice Cream Man.” Jake retired awhile back after a long career with Hewlett-Packard. I hadn’t seen Jake in a while, and my wife and

Do People Truly Find Purpose in Their Work?

A few issues back, I wrote about work being a primary driver of purpose for people (Radical Abundance), and I received a comment from reader Mark Odegard of Measure Meant that really stuck with me. I've been thinking about it ever since. It made me realize that I