If we need simple narratives so people can amplify and spread them, are we forced to engage only with the simplest of problems?

The Internet is corporations all the way down.

There's no locality on the web - every market is a global market.

The Internet has not become the great leveller that it was once thought it could be.

The wider world is a click away, but whether we mean to or not, we're usually filtering it out.

People who know me well have learned to insist that I commit to obligations by opening my laptop and putting them onto the appropriate calendar or list - a verbal agreement and a promise to remember won't work.

Increasingly, I'm inspired by entrepreneurs who run nonprofit organizations that fund themselves, or for-profit organizations that achieve social missions while turning a profit.