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The Book that Changed My Life is Now in its Fourth Edition
Recently, I was cleaning out an old trunk and stopped when I ran across my high school yearbook. I went straight to the back where friends had signed their names with wishes for a great summer and hopes we'd stay in touch after graduation. To my surprise there in those youthful remarks, I realized that since I was a teenager, I have been on a path to help people in a unique way.
"I'll never forget that talk we had, Clint. It really helped me and I will always be thankful," and "Thanks for taking the time to sit and listen when I really needed it. You're a good friend." As I have been coaching for 17 years, these messages jumped right off the page.
Without knowing it, I was already trying to help people in real time by simply talking.
As the years went by, my ability to help diminished and I pursued a career as an IT consultant. Everything became a simple matter of analytical problem solving. "You give me the problem and I give you the answer." All through my 20s and early 30s, my intelligence was dedicated almost exclusively to this mode of thinking and operating.
Until I took my first coaching class and read Co-Active Coaching (1st Edition), I didn't know any other way.
But, what an exhilarating experience it was to learn brand new ways of talking with people that were 10 times more effective at producing positive results! No one had taught me these things before. Empowered with a whole new set of skills, I knew right away what my new career path had to be.
Today, I use the same, time-tested co-active approach in my work, and I can attest to the universal success that this model teaches. Humans are complex creatures, indeed, but we are also naturally resourceful, creative, and whole. This is our secret to success!
The truth is that everyone can learn and practice co-active coaching, and it will help in almost any profession where you need to interact with others. Managers, doctors, lawyers, consultants and so many more professionals need to be better at helping people over and above simply giving advice. In the pages of Co-Active Coaching you too can find a wealth of communication options that you may never have known existed.
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Aceitamos Bitcoin! Or How I Learned to Love the Crypto
Late last year, I traveled to Lisbon for the annual Web Summit conference, and I naturally fell in with a bunch of cryptocurrency enthusiasts. At first, it was their ebullience and entrepreneurial spirit that attracted me. Then, I learned what crypto currency really is and I was hooked. Yes, I accept Bitcoin!
The possibilities for a world with crypto are so inspiring and the people creating this future are so stimulating like I haven't experienced since the early days of the world wide web.
(Click here to watch live stream report from Lisbon.)
While many entrepreneurs are promoting their conventional web platforms, the crypto community is well on their way to building the next big thing. So much work has already been done, and when you understand what makes crypto and blockchain technology different, you will probably embrace it too.
A Better World through Transparency, Integrity, and Anonymity
You have heard me say it a thousand times: Technology can be used for good or evil. As I preach the message of values-based tech development, the ethical challenge to entrepreneurs turns out to not be so black and white. Gratefully, the underpinnings of cryptos and blockchain almost force people to be good.
Transparency means everyone can see what you’re doing
So much of what goes wrong in our world happens in secret and between people who collude to cheat, steal or even physically harm others for personal gain. When it comes to money, for example, do you really know what goes on between the US Treasury, the Federal Reserve and the Big Banks? What about human health and those who would pervert science to keep us ignorant of the biochemical hazards in our day to day lives? Small and large scams, misrepresentations and fakery have become all too commonplace.
Because blockchain transactions are totally public, anyone can inspect the details of when and how information is shared and processed, and a record of these interactions remains in the public view for all time. Transparency by itself does not guarantee that people will do the right thing, but at minimum, we have a common set of facts with which to start a conversation about what we should or should not do. In today’s “post-fact” world, this critical element gives us a set of indisputable and permanent records for all to see.
Integrity is baked in so don’t even try to cheat
Have you ever been screwed over because someone broke their agreement with you? Whether innocently or maliciously, when someone says one thing and then does something else, you may end up paying the price. The response to a broken contract traditionally has been to seek some just reparation--sometimes informally and sometimes very formally in court.
Central to blockchain technology is something called “proof of work” that holds your agreements with others up to public scrutiny. And, ingeniously, the cryptocurrency model incentivizes countless strangers to mathematically validate all your transactions and contracts in the open. Here, at least we have a shot at working ethically with each other because we can no longer arbitrarily skip out on our commitments.
Anonymity makes it all worthwhile
As I have said, much of the criminal and unethical behavior we read about every day in the news headlines is perpetrated in the dark. So, why do we need more anonymity and not less? Conventional thinking about policing and “security” drives us to positively identify everyone and everything. This impulse to keep an eye on you and everyone you know seems like a good idea until it comes to its natural conclusion: no privacy at all.
In the future, your identity as a singular person, your reputation, even your “character” will make no difference as a means of establishing trust. We won’t need user reviews and ratings like we find on community-based web sites, such as AirBnB and Yelp. We can even make obsolete the massive surveillance complex, including the National Security Agency, that has grown up around us in recent years. The difference is the novel possibility of a “trustless” world.
Are you ready to say goodbye to trust?
It may seem counterintuitive but trust has been the greatest obstacle to people working together ethically. Yes, when it works, trust is the glue that binds you and your word to another. I trust you when I feel you will not try to cheat me. When past experience tells me you have my best interests in mind, I assume you will do your best to live up to your commitments to me.
Unfortunately, we too often break our word with others, and so trust goes out the window. Once lost, trust proves extremely difficult to recover. So, we live our lives sometimes trusting some people for some things and not trusting the rest.
If you think about all the time and energy spent establishing trust, trying to maintain it, and avoiding “untrustworthy” people, you get a world where people are generally suspicious of others and perceive trust as rare and fragile. Examples litter our lives. From big banks that stand between you and me when we want to buy or sell something to a tort law justice system required to adjudicate contracts, we have to admit we don’t really trust each other to do the right thing.
“Trustlessness” is the solution
What if you could design a world where everyone does what they say they will do, and if they don’t, the consequences are real and immediate? Finally, techies can give us a world that works for everyone rather than simply automating the historical, all-too-human demand for other people or institutions to protect us from “bad players” which leave us dependent and no more trusting in the end.
We all know that odd feeling you get when someone says, “Just trust me!” Cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology free us of the mostly fear-based need for trust when working and doing business with others. Today, you can uncross your fingers, release a deep and abiding worry that stems directly from the need to trust, and help build the new trustless economy for a truly free society.
Join me
Everyone knows I spend my days researching and experimenting with a myriad of technologies and modalities in a quest to discover the most highly impactful gifts this world has to offer. The leverage we gain from crypto and blockchain in our attempt to bring forth a more equitable and just world is unprecedented.
The transformational power of this emerging paradigm for managing human affairs, however, requires broad adoption and so too the courage to try something new and unfamiliar. Therefore, I offer myself as a resource to you in seeing the new possibilities for yourself personally and for society at large, and I invite you to join me in creating a world that works for everyone.
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