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Latest — 25 Aug 2026

Scotland Community Wealth Building Act

Godspeed: good fortune; success (used as a wish to a person starting on a journey, a new venture, etc.) I’ve been working, in one facet or another, for the better part of four decades to build community here in Boise and beyond. (Shaking head as to how four decades

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What Do You Do When You Feel This Way?

I do not have a clue what to write today. Absolutely none. And here I have a deadline to write and publish this newsletter TOMORROW. I don’t feel as if I’m stuck by writer’s block – I just can’t think of anything worth writing about. Can’t

Where Your Dollars Go

Godspeed: good fortune; success (used as a wish to a person starting on a journey, a new venture, etc.) Two weeks in a row. Hey, I’m not being lazy, I’m on a roll, and I recognize it when someone has something important to say – and that it should

The Future of Work

Godspeed: good fortune; success (used as a wish to a person starting on a journey, a new venture, etc.) Editor's note: This week I'm turning the steering wheel over to my B Corp and 1% for the Planet colleague Janice Stevenor Dale. I've known

The Rights of Nature

The Rights of Nature movement is only a small crack in the dam, though that’s the way these things start – first some seepage, then erosion of the foundation, or a failure in the piping or the sinking and sliding of concrete, before nature finally has its way and the

Potpourri for 500

Godspeed: good fortune; success (used as a wish to a person starting on a journey, a new venture, etc.) All right, it’s mid-summer so we’re going to mix it up with a little of this, a little of that, or, as they like to say on the

Colorado Invents the A-Corp (Elon, Pay No Heed)

Godspeed: good fortune; success (used as a wish to a person starting on a journey, a new venture, etc.) It had to be coming. In the world of corporate governance, there’s a C Corp, and, as readers of this newsletter most certainly know, there’s a B Corp. We’

How a High-Flying Brand Lost Its Sole

Posting today about one of the more curious brand pivots/rebrands I’ve seen – that of Allbirds, the high-flying shoe manufacturer that got its wings clipped and wound up losing it sole, er, soul. If you haven’t been following the business or branding news, Allbirds announced this spring

The Odd Couple Nobody Saw Coming: Main Street and Wall Street on AI's Payday

Some days the universe sprinkles cosmic content dust right in your lap. Moments after I hit “publish” on last week’s post about democratizing the economic spoils of AI via a sovereign wealth fund, Just Capital released new polling research on how the public, investors, and corporate leaders think AI-

From Bernie to Trump: Is A Consensus Building Around Taxing AI Companies?

Did your capitalist eyeballs about bug out of your head earlier this month when Senator Bernie Sanders proposed the creation of a Sovereign Wealth Fund to be funded by a tax on the leading AI companies? Bernie’s move comes as politicians have suddenly (hello!) awakened to the negative economic