Business Hippie Club
Found among other things, and written back. Dear you, I hope you’ll forgive a letter from someone you’ll never meet. I came across a few of your things the other week — a calendar with every hour boxed off, a little book promising to make me more productive before breakfast, a phrase I had to […]
A week ago I wrote about where AI is taking the economy. Short version: it will run it, better than we ever did. The AI agents will buy the shoes, match supply to demand, take over the small daily decisions – and remove the moment where we used to stop and think “do I actually […]
I spent an afternoon talking with my AI system about where AI is taking us. Starting the conversation about the customer journey: decisions, purchases, supply chains. The whole picture. The basics of our economy. That sounds like a strange loop – asking the machine about the machine. It was. But it’s also the most honest […]
Somewhere along the way, a conversation became networking. Helping someone became a way to build reputation. Kindness started arriving with a quiet little invoice attached. You know the feeling. A chat starts open and human, and then near the end the vibe changes – the ask appears. A favor. A connection. A “we should do […]
Moving society beyond GDP toward quality of life as the goal for real progress For decades, society has treated economic growth as the main proof of progress. GDP became the big number – the scoreboard governments, cities, institutions, and businesses point to when they want to show that things are moving. But life is not […]
The growing tension between tourism growth and everyday life March kept returning one signal, in different places and different forms. Not anger. Not protest, mostly. Something quieter than that. A gradual withdrawal of goodwill. The moment when people who have been adapting for a long time stop pretending the arrangement still feels fair. We kept […]
We talk a lot about quality of life these days. Cities want it. Businesses promise it. People chase it. And fair enough. Who does not want a better life? But here is the uncomfortable question: Is quality of life really good when it comes at a hidden cost? Because yes, quality of life can be […]
The global human weather If January felt like careful consolidation, February feels like compression. There is no crisis language. No loud rupture. Instead, people describe life in conditional terms:“It’s good – as long as…”“We’re okay – if this holds…” The shift across everyday conversation is not panic. It’s calculation – a quiet check of assumptions […]
the global human weather If December carried a feeling of calm endurance, January arrived with a quieter kind of attention. People did not seem to rush into the year with wild optimism. There was also no sense of dramatic collapse. The stronger signal was more subtle: people were checking the ground beneath their feet. What […]
We talk about human rights as if they’re written in stone – the right to life, freedom, safety, and dignity. But in a world where millions survive without truly living, maybe it’s time to add one more: the right to quality of life Because what good is the right to life if life itself loses […]