The BACE Timebank <3 Biketopia, a nonprofit bike kitchen / bike shop hybrid started by SF Bike Kitchen volunteer Zach Cohen. You can get your bike fixed by professional mechanics or learn how to do it yourself. Biketopia also has …
Mira Luna, a Timebank board member, wrote this rad article about bike kitchens near and far, including Timebank faves the SF Bike Kitchen and Biketopia, both of which accept Timebank hours 🙂
Shareable.net published a story about the Timebank Holiday Fair. Check it out. If you came and have feedback, please leave it in the comments.
The talk consisted mostly of some of the highlights of his book Debt: The First 5,000 Years. Highly recommended whether or not you’ve read the book. Video on socialcam
John Robb has written an essay viewing the consolidation of the global economy as an instance of the bow-tie formalism from the theory of control systems. Here’s a diagram of the idea as applied to adversarial situations in human society, …
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I recently read former BACE speaker John Robb’s thoughts on the emerging bubble in Bitcoins. He wrote the following: As a store of value or an asset it’s shady.  Here’s why:  since the supply of bitcoin is limited and knowledge/use …