Archive
Articles
Essays across education, entrepreneurship, leadership, strategy, systems, finance, and personal reflection.
Find a Thread
Search across titles and article text, then use the page controls below the list to continue through the archive.
The Seventeen-Community Model
A federated, testable architecture linking productive participation, circular flows, finance, governance and evidence across seventeen community-scale economies.
How to Test the 10,000 People Economy Without Rigging the Result
A credible pilot must test the causal chain, measure sustained paid work, look for harm, set failure rules in advance and publish the null result.
The Spreadsheet That Can Keep a Development Promise Honest
A good spreadsheet cannot prove a development model, but it can stop jobs, sales, income, imports and physical resources from telling contradictory stories.
Why Imported Development Models Fail in South Africa
Foreign success stories become useful only when South Africa extracts the working mechanism, names local obligations and lets evidence reject the adaptation.
Can Seventeen Communities Make One Another Stronger?
A federation is resilient only when communities diversify real dependencies and share capabilities that improve performance, not when it merely multiplies sites.
Community Finance Without the Fantasy Bank
Community finance can fund real production without pretending to be a bank, but every rand, claim, legal power and potential loss must remain visible.
The Missing Institution Between Training and Work
The experience gap is not an individual failure. South Africa needs institutions that combine paid work, mentoring, learning, assessment and progression.
Who Pays for the Work?
Before counting a job, identify who values the output, who is authorised to buy it, when the cash arrives and whether wages can survive the wait.
Buying Local Is Not the Same as Building Local
Local spending matters, but circulation alone cannot build productive capability or protect a community from fragile supplies and imported inputs.
Jobs Are an Outcome, Not a Shopping List
Jobs emerge from transactions that work. Start with the customer, product, inputs, cash cycle and institutions, then calculate the work they can sustain.
What Would an Economy for 10,000 People Actually Have to Do?
A community economy must do more than promise jobs. It must connect demand, production, care, infrastructure and evidence around 10,000 real lives.
Beyond Barriers: A Frictional Cost Calculation Framework for Innovation Value Realisation
A conceptual framework for measuring how organisational friction turns potentially valuable innovation into excess cost, delayed benefits, and lost value.