Published in A Layman’s Future·May 2, 2020Business ResilienceWhen Arthur Andersen, an audit and accounting giant formed in 1913, collapsed in infamy in August 2002, it should not have come as a surprise to as many people as it did. As chief auditor to energy giant Enron, it was convicted with being complicit in accounting fraud and obstruction…Business13 min read
Published in A Layman’s Future·Apr 14, 2020Entrepreneurial ResilienceThe first post in this series was about Human Resilience and how we as a species have consistently managed to harness crises to spur growth and progress. But how does this progress happen? And why do we need crises to help us improve? What evidence is there that previous crises…Entrepreneurship14 min read
Published in A Layman’s Future·Apr 5, 2020Human Resilience“Historically, pandemics have forced humans to break with the past and imagine their world anew. This one is no different. It is a portal, a gateway between one world and the next. We can choose to walk through it, dragging the carcasses of our prejudice and hatred, our avarice, our…Coronavirus10 min read
Published in A Layman’s Future·Apr 5, 2020A Layman’s Future…and how we got to now. How did we get to now? What unseen forces are guiding our daily actions, building our habits and forging our destinies? Can we influence them in any way? If so, how? Which technologies currently create our realities, which are obsolete and which are just…Technology3 min read