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Arthur Brock

Personal blog · artbrock.com/blogcultureeconomicsdesign

Arthur Brock's personal blog at artbrock.com covers culture, economics and design. Since 2015, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “Those Kids and Their Darn Gadgets”. The last post was in 2021, but the archive is still widely read.

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5mentions?
5HN people?
2015–2020first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2018

Culture-Hacking, Alt.Education, Targeted Currency Design, NextNet Technologies.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Those Kids and Their Darn Gadgets
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-02-13

What Hacker News says?

  1. > There is also the possibility we could create organizations set up for other kinds of people to succeed. “My exciting insight came in 2001 when I read Bernard Lietaer’s book, The Future of Money. It helped me see the ways our monetary system has shaped our culture and even our sense of humanity. That’s when I realized the things we had invented (in my company) were in fact new kinds of currencies, and that currenc…

    Comment linking /2014/11/21/designing-social-flows-chapter-6-on-designing-incentives

    on “What was it like to be a software engineer at NeXT?”
  2. Submitted Those Kids and Their Darn Gadgets as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  3. What do you guys think of this short read? http://www.artbrock.com/blog/those-kids-and-their-darn-gadge...

    Comment linking /blog/those-kids-and-their-darn-gadgets/

    on “The Case for the “Self-Driven Child””
  4. How about spending financial wealth on an educational program that redefines wealth? I've started studying what Arthur Brock is doing and am trying to implement it into my alternative economics startup as much as possible. You cannot break down the Co2 that is processed by a tree into dollars...It's like breaking down the value of a human being through how much plasma can be extracted and selling it at market rate.…

    Comment linking /videos/arthur-brock-transitioning-new-economy

    on “What’s the best way to spend $20K to help the common good?”
  5. > making money by destroying wealth. http://artbrock.com/blog/magical-power-objects-and-sociopath...

    Comment linking /blog/magical-power-objects-and-sociopaths

    on “America's rural radio stations are vanishing”

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