Is It Time for the Public-Private-Piggyback System to Step Aside?

Pathways outside the algorithm open onto alternate worlds.

Productivity Assets: The Floating Gull is the first Andersen Design wildlife sculpture designed in the late fifties. The Gull maintained its market appeal throughout the decades. Because Andersen Design was a small production, it never saturated the marketplace and the hand-made process makes each iteration unique.

Changing Times

Pieces of a puzzle I have been trying to put together are falling into formation by following a path that could not manifest until the twenty-first century.

The path begins with this newsletter which I created because no other local media voice was speaking for me. The newsletter began one day in 2009 when I decided to enter a competition for what I believed was a grant but later realized was a venture capitalist award, infinitesimally small by venture capitalist standards, and everything hinged on “the exit strategy”.

I made my 5-minute pitch in the first round. The person to whom I was presenting, whom I will call John, responded “Excellent!” Do you have anyt…