A New Decade-Start With the Basics

Issue #50 January 2, 2020

I hope you enjoyed the short hiatus from me filling your inbox so that you could properly give all the holiday promotion spam its just attention before hitting ‘delete’.

We have just officially entered what I wholeheartedly believe will be view as one of the most volatile, transcendent, important, and disruptive, (net positive) decades in the short 10,000-year history of humanity. That is not hyperbole.

We have never faced so many critical inflection points in any prior 100-year macrocycle transition from one set of institutions to the formation of the next world order that will emerge and rule through 2120 before it begins to decay. The last time we faced this repeating cycle we had 7 billion fewer people on the planet and only 5% lived in cities and economies were not linked with such interdependent complexity.

Today we live in highly populated density with double-digit growth in net migration to urban centers. Information (and misinformation) move at light speed on personalized dev…