Barry’s Reviews > Person to Person: Change Your Life and Fix the World > Status Update

Getting annoyed with this now. This last third is evangelising for blockchain financial markets. It's interesting, and I can see the alternative here. But it is promoting free market capitalism without property, and essentially saying 'people's good nature will invest in random stuff and we'll ignore the impact of less tax and environmental damage'. Deep flaws in here

Love the observation that rules undermine human interaction, and also that no-one is 'safe' in a hierarchy. Looking forward to reading about collaborative ownership

The committment sessions to support non-hierarchical collaboration are probably a good idea, but I have this impression of 'Maoist self-censure' which isn't what the authors are saying. I am imagining these sessions to be really difficult in the environments I work in, which I guess is the point. The reason this feels hard is because this work is hard

There are some interesting ideas in this book but it's so hard going at times. I really don't like the fictional example that weaves through this and the young people in it. I'm finding I really don't like them, and there is something about the tone in here I'm not sitting with well

Not a book about anarchism or systems thinking but there is tons in here to reflect upon. Particularly the link of property and assets as a source of war and conflict and the need to think in terms of utility. A lot in here about non-hierarchical and decentralised existence