Entrepreneur, author, analyst. You can’t trust these behemoth corporations to give us a level playing field. You have to make it. And we’re at a point where it needs to be done in an intentional and aggressive way. Otherwise we stand to lose control of the decentralized global platform that underpins life today.
Lead time for an inbound threat varies from minutes to days. There should be a tool that can adapt to either timeline that assesses the potential for systems disruption. Data centers, railways, bridges, sewers, energy pipelines, subway switches, the list goes on. What’s in harms way? Can it be affected by the threat (fire? water? [...]
Connect:Homes is a pretty cool modular housing company. They’ve adapted their designs so that that fully prepared units can be shipped anywhere using standard industrial transporting practices. (Shipping containers.) That’s smart. Unfortunately, the company is using the standard real estate metric of price per square foot to show that its competitive. They’re proud of the fact [...]
The model was pioneered by Toms, then Warby Parker. Buy a hip and sexy product, and they’ll ship off another to someone needs it. Shoes. Glasses. And now, thanks to Porteur, bikes. Buy a $1200 fixed gear bike (comes with a pack) and they’ll send another to someone in Africa who needs it. Like the others, 1:1. [...]
Omnivorous energy is one of the more important tenets of resiliency: “A truly resilient strategy for the local production of energy (both heat and power) should be able to consumer nearly any type of fuel. In essence, our energy consumption strategy needs to be omnivorous — it can eat anything.” [...]