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A collection of 10 issues

More Trees, Please

Godspeed: good fortune; success (used as a wish to a person starting on a journey, a new venture, etc.) Why yes, I did play hooky from writing Godspeed the last couple of weeks to go vagabond in the wilderness on the Middle Fork of the Salmon River. This time of

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

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

Inside the Red Zone

Godspeed: good fortune; success (used as a wish to a person starting on a journey, a new venture, etc.). Choo, choo! This train runs once each week a world where more businesses create social and environmental impact. Please stoke our engine to keep the train running. 🔥 🚂 🙏 Hop On Board I&

Welcome To The Junkyard

Godspeed: good fortune; success (used as a wish to a person starting on a journey, a new venture, etc.). We’re wandering the junkyard this issue, looking for parts and pieces, a semi-structured approach to an unstructured mind (mine) that seems to be having a hard time focusing this

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

13 Ways of Looking at AI

A poetic musing today – it’s National Poetry Month after all, which I’ve foreshadowed aplenty in recent issues – though to hold the line a bit today’s writing does have overlap with business and technology. I first encountered the poem Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird in college,

Here We Have Idaho

I know, I know – an Idaho-centric post, complete with Idaho’s state song as the headline, which on the surface doesn’t apply to or interest those of you outside my home state. But before you scroll to your next read, give me a few moments. Because not every

Illustrating Pentagram's AI (Mid)Journey

Pentagram, the world's largest independent design agency, recently showcased its work in creating performance.gov on behalf of the U.S. Federal Government. The work was led by design icon Paula Scher. More noteworthy than Scher's involvement was her team's use of an AI

The Poetry of Purpose

Welcome to the "Poetry Issue." Now I know what some of you are thinking: Poetry. Ewwww. 🤮 (Perhaps as a grade-schooler you, too, had to memorize "If" by Rudyard Kipling and are still semi-scarred from the experience?) Well, before you slide into the next item