Towards a YOU-Centered Economics: Meaning, Experience, and Connection as Commerce in the 21st Century
To make it really work, we might need a new indie economics (of creativity and innovation), plus a new indie set of political policies. – Bruce Nussbaum, Fast Company Design I’m nailing my theses to the NYSE door. This is economic Reformation. What is the New Economy? What Nussbaum terms “indie economics,” I call “you-centered [...]
Is the Creative Class a Lie? Why Salon.com gets it so very wrong
The jobs just aren’t coming back. They left on what was supposed to be a round-the-world cruise and the ship sank somewhere off the coast off China. Recession is supposed to be a cyclical phenomenon where what is lost comes back to us in spades. One part innovation, one part government intervention. And sometimes one [...]
All night. Every night. on the will to succeed and celebrating the learning curve
Last week, one of my current Website Kick Start students wrote to tell me that she had gotten her first job designing another person’s website. She’s only half-way through the course. This isn’t the purpose of the course – although quite a few have used it that way – and she’s still got a lot [...]
what’s your hypothesis? making the art business a science
You didn’t go to business school. You don’t have an MBA. You don’t run a tech startup. The only “C” in front of your title stands for “cook” or “cleaner.” You’re an artist. You may not use paint or stone or metal. You may not sing or dance or write. But your work is an [...]
