I am back where I started…Back in the nineties when Fast Company ruled the old media. Back in the days of purple cow milk carton mailers [...] No related posts.]]>

The biggest challenge is that there are no barriers. If you want to do it, go do it. Ideas worth spreading, spread. Seth’s Blog: You should write an ebook.

I am back where I started…Back in the nineties when Fast Company ruled the old media. Back in the days of purple cow milk carton mailers and mind like water guru’s. Both are as relevant today than they were back then. Seth and David.

Write an ebook….Yeah, that’s doable isn’t it Doolin? mmmm….

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If anything, our government policies should encourage renting, not buying. Homeownership occupies a central place in the American Dream primarily because decades of policy have put it there. A recent [...] No related posts.]]> An extremely interesting analysis of the state of the economy and where it may lead from here. Thanks to Jason Kottke for the pointer

If anything, our government policies should encourage renting, not buying. Homeownership occupies a central place in the American Dream primarily because decades of policy have put it there. A recent study by Grace Wong, an economist at the Wharton School of Business, shows that, controlling for income and demographics, homeowners are no happier than renters, nor do they report lower levels of stress or higher levels of self-esteem.

And while homeownership has some social benefits—a higher level of civic engagement is one—it is costly to the economy. The economist Andrew Oswald has demonstrated that in both the United States and Europe, those places with higher homeownership rates also suffer from higher unemployment. Homeownership, Oswald found, is a more important predictor of unemployment than rates of unionization or the generosity of welfare benefits. Too often, it ties people to declining or blighted locations, and forces them into work—if they can find it—that is a poor match for their interests and abilities.

As homeownership rates have risen, our society has become less nimble: in the 1950s and 1960s, Americans were nearly twice as likely to move in a given year as they are today. Last year fewer Americans moved, as a percentage of the population, than in any year since the Census Bureau started tracking address changes, in the late 1940s. This sort of creeping rigidity in the labor market is a bad sign for the economy, particularly in a time when businesses, industries, and regions are rising and falling quickly.

via The Atlantic Online | March 2009 | How the Crash Will Reshape America | Richard Florida.

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This is one of the best talks I’ve heard in a while about creativity…He may call himself a pretender but I think he’s on to something…