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Career Advice for a Better World: Food, Health, Housing, Education. Pick One.
Food, Health, Housing, Education. Pick One. If we pick a big goal, a high goal, a worthy goal, and then work to make a difference, then we might make some progress and avoid some of the classic pitfalls. A worthy … Continue reading
Debt-free Housing for Public-Benefit Workers
A growing number of non-profit organizations are appearing to solve all sorts of public benefit missions from health, education, assistance for the less fortunate. Those that decide to work in these non-profit organizations often forgo some of the financial rewards … Continue reading
Essense of Richard Stallman’s Free Software Idea
Can a system support the benefits to many entities that had previously been confined to a single entity? Furthermore, can this be done without support of law or government, since laws can be reshaped to benefit the few at the … Continue reading
Michael Hart of Project Gutenberg Passes
A dear friend and an inspiration unfortunately died yesterday. Washpost obituary. He dedicated his life to getting books to everyone in the world. He did this with no compensation and lived a life of near poverty. But he always shined … Continue reading
AP piece on the Physical Archive of the Internet Archive
The AP wrote a article and made a video about the physical archive of the Internet Archive. This is our storage system for millions of books that I wrote about on the Archive Blog. We hope to expand it to … Continue reading
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Growing Our Own Food
Leveraging recent developments, I believe we can build small-scale farms that are low-labor and low-water-usage that grow enough chickens, fish, and vegetables (not sure about grains) to feed many families. Small scale meaning less than 1 acre and low labor … Continue reading
What should be the school year be for custom schoolers?
Our family has built a “custom school” around our 14 year-old child with hired teachers, and it is working out fantastically well. He is learning more than his former classmates, according to his former teachers that have evaluated him. He … Continue reading
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Really Owning our Homes: Home/Land Security
What if most people owned their homes free and clear, in other words, debt free? If we were renting, what if the rent were less than 1/2 of what it currently is because we only paid for upkeep and taxes, … Continue reading
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Structural Change for the Public Benefit: A Lesson from Open Source Licenses
Forty years ago there was a political agenda in the US and much of the world that had merit: fix the issues of ecology, control the expanding power of the multi-national corporations, regulate or phase out nuclear technologies, address the … Continue reading
Housing Trust: Leveraging Free and Open Source Software Ideas to Improve Housing
Idea What if an individual homeowner could designate their house to become and then remain a debt-free house and forever serve a particular community, such as non-profit workers? Free and Open Source Software Inspiration This is inspired Richard Stallman’s Free … Continue reading
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