Enter the theater of beautiful business — Six weeks until we gather for Concrete Love: The Making of Beautiful Business! This long-awaited mindmeld will play out over two parts: ACTS and ACTIONS. Here’s a quick preview of ACTS — the big ideas shaping our new pandemic world — that we’ll explore as theatrical immersions staged in an…

From the final Living Room Session of the House of Beautiful Business — In the final Living Room Session of the House of Beautiful Business this past year, “A Love Is Born,” a special New Year’s Eve edition, speaker and facilitator Esther Blázquez-Blanco asked the 250 participants to share their “sentences that will make 2021” via a 10-minute Zoom chat storm. Our team…

Closing Town Hall — Unbelievably, our 20-long asynchronous conference has come to an end. And to celebrate the fantastic contributions and participation we have witnessed along the way, we have gathered together one last time, with some of our participants, contributors, team members, and members of the audience. To start, we aimed to quickly…

Returning to basics with Juergen Geuter, alias tante — We are slowly approaching the end of our asynchronous conference. After hearing so many voices and stories during these weeks, we thought we’d go back to essentials, like discerning the very infrastructure of the promised Web3 and its foundation, decentralization. …

Dispatch from Wine3 — The Happy Hour Web3 hackathon — Well, this was a first for us. Last week, we witnessed a real mini-hackathon. Hosted by Annabelle Low, venture builder and director of strategic development at Project Ark, and Ricardo Amaral, co-founder of Positiveblockchain.io, …

Learning about an ethically conscious Web3 from Jess de Jesus de Pinho Pinhal and Micaela Mantegna They say history repeats itself, and yet, there’s cause for optimism, that we’ll learn from the mistakes and false promises of Web2. How do we go about that? How do we address the issues…

A crowdsources program from our participants — Last week’s format was a mystery to us, the organizers of this 20-week long asynchronous conference, as we asked our participants, members of the Discord community, to run the program for a week and share their wisdom with us. And so they did, via a series of beautiful talks and…

Learning about DAOs with Marlene Ronstedt and Nishant Bhaskar — “To me the idea of DAOs is so beautiful and powerful that I believe: if humans are a species with inherent regenerative tendencies, then DAOs will enable the best of what humanity could be” — Nishant Bhaskar For Nishant Bhaskar, co-founder and CEO of Lomads DAO, as for one of…

Talking about decentralized collaboration with Kerem Alper — “What is the problem with current models of collaboration?” Kerem Alper asks. He is the co-founder of ATÖLYE, a community-powered creative services organization, and Neol, a decentralized collaboration platform targeting design and creative professionals, as well as corporate innovation managers. The problem seems to be: people doing things internally, behind…