She Leads Africa with all the #wisdom

"It doesn't matter who you used to be. All that matters is who you are willing to become." - Carol Motolo. pic.twitter.com/EiJOapvIlD

— She Leads Africa (@SheLeadsAfrica) December 28, 2018

"Never get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life." pic.twitter.com/vb3i3LWLyu

— She Leads Africa (@SheLeadsAfrica) February 11, 2019

Play Music: High-Life by Jesse Jagz ft. Rexx
from the 2014 album Royal Niger Company (Jagz Nation Volume II)

“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.”
― Mahatma Gandhi pic.twitter.com/j95cyDcTqo

— She Leads Africa (@SheLeadsAfrica) February 10, 2019

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Can NonProfits change our world?

Consider these Articles of Incorporation  - a sample document from an arts and culture organization. 

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Economics is (of course very) useful and (of course very) flawed. Enjoy this essay and possibly the book.

Test your powers of concentration with this good long read. How economics became a religion https://t.co/t1rfeT3sHr

— Guardian Weekly (@guardianweekly) July 11, 2017

The long read - How economics became a religion by @jarapley https://t.co/LIdeNbVsuQ pic.twitter.com/EuZGXUIBnI

— Guardian Comms (@GuardianComms) July 11, 2017

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Optimism // Beautiful world

How Bill and Melinda Gates have tried to make Warren Buffett's vision of optimism a reality - and how you can too https://t.co/EvLnEX1i07 pic.twitter.com/zbSbV642Ci

— CNN International (@cnni) February 14, 2017

Only 1% know poverty has halved since 1990. Optimism in pessimistic times. Read Gates Annual Letter – https://t.co/dKc994XAzq via @billgates

— Carlos A. Reck (@yuyay) February 14, 2017

Announcing the 2017 World's 50 Most Innovative Companies—from @Snap to @Glossier #FCMostInnovative https://t.co/FCIXTrYzaI pic.twitter.com/HVQS89WwGs

— Fast Company (@FastCompany) February 13, 2017

Announcing the 2017 World's 50 Most Innovative Companies—from @Amazon to @Chobani #FCMostInnovative https://t.co/Betg3uxDck pic.twitter.com/dvvHhBkFrU

— Fast Company (@FastCompany) February 13, 2017

She's the first woman to travel to every country in the world https://t.co/OfwVnh3Hf3 pic.twitter.com/79uj49TunQ

— CNN (@CNN) February 10, 2017

All these countries have had a woman leader before the U.S.: https://t.co/7bfYfLjDcW pic.twitter.com/KaY1YPmFIN

— CNN International (@cnni) June 10, 2016

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I'm black and I'm a member of the 1%

In the U.S. today, the average African-American household owns just 6
cents for every $1 of wealth held by the typical white household, and
blacks make up just 1.7% of the top 1% of wealthy Americans. But there
are black members of the 1% who are working to change that. 

In this short feature, CNN's Tanzina Vega
investigates the historical and contemporary racial barriers to wealth
creation in the U.S.



If you love this, spare the time to also watch Born Rich

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Honest Communication

#ThisWeek,
EXPRESS YOURSELF, don't Repress Yourself.
- Madonna 1994 (in Human Nature)

Go for it, really do!
And that goes for me too.

Because I AM Kanye West.
I CAN get it off my chest.

Yeah, we talk in rhyme all the time.
Nighttime sublime dreamtime on a dime. 
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Visualizing Data: Wealth, Health, and Global History

From The Economist, an animated infographic showing the world's top three economies from 1AD to date.

The Joy Of Stats, narrated by Hans Rosling, shown on the BBC: How life expectancy has exploded worldwide over the last 200 years. 

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Where the world is going

The Sustainable development goals (2015 - 2030)
are to be determined in meetings and international consultations before the end of 2015.
Picking up where the MDGs left off, the SDGs will guide international development for the next 15 years.

Proposed Sustainable Development Goals, February 2015

In summary, the target is basic provision (of food and health for instance) for more people as in the MDGs (see chart), but now we want to cover 'all' people while taking environmental and social costs into account (via peace, pollution, equality, community, ...)  Anyway, the goals are still being worked on.

I don't see 'decent work for all' being possible unless we create new sinks for human effort, or redefine and share/distribute work. (See 'The world can afford to shrink the workweek')

As a complement to this, we need to promote play.  How best to do so?
We have earned the right to leisure, it would seem, with all our work-saving machines.  Let them work.
 
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