Tag: sharing

The sharing economy doesn’t work. It was never meant to.

The so-called “sharing economy” emerged about a decade ago, promising to transform business and daily life. Advocates pitched utopian visions of empowered entrepreneurs making extra cash by renting out spare rooms, cars, and other unused assets. Magazine covers trumpeted “The Share...

How Delta Sharing Works

Delta Sharing is an open standard for secure data sharing. Having worked as a data solution architect with UK government departments over the years, one of the challenges that frequently cropped up was how to securely share data between departments. Delta Sharing would have been a straightforward an...

Embarking on My SAAS Adventure: A Journey Worth Sharing

A Vision Takes Shape It’s not every day that one finds the courage to chase their entrepreneurial dreams. But here I am, standing at the crossroads of ambition and determination, ready to embark on my very own SAAS journey. While the path ahead might be full of challenges and unknowns, the ...

Ride-sharing: A solution for congestion in Tel Aviv?

March 18, 2018: I boarded an early morning train to reach Tel Aviv from Rehovot. The train was packed. So much so, I was having a hard time breathing while struggling to hold onto something while the train was moving. Take this from someone who comes from India (a country known for overcrowded train...

Sharing success with others

Success to me is achieved when it’s not just done for myself but shared with others. That is what I love about wholesale. Staying in business is obviously not an easy job, which must give the business owners sharp eyes on quality, because otherwise they wouldn’t be able to survive. I lik...

Dreaming in Community: Guidelines for group dream-sharing and reflecting

In preparation for a new collaborative workshop and dream circle with C. Vivi from Art of the Zodiac Dreaming & Witnessing: Communing with the Dreamweaver, I am sharing some updated guidelines for dream sharing and witnessing in groups. More on this specific offering in a bit. We hope ...

Stop sharing stories of white activists in anti-racism movements - it’s black voices we need to hear right now.

I saw a video on Twitter the other week with the comment: “this is how you use your white privilege”. It was of a young white woman jumping in front of a black man to protect him from the police. It has been described as “historic”. Another person said it moved them...

Sharing Lunar New Year: Longevity, lion dances and learning

When I was a little girl, I knew there was something special about “our” new year. Unlike the Jan. 1 celebration, Chinese New Year had nothing to do with champagne and resolutions. It was all about family. Now we call the holiday “Lunar New Year,” embracing traditions from...

Growing Up Asian American — LA, NY, SF

Happy Asian Pacific American Heritage Month! I know it’s the end of the month, but it’s better late than never. A couple weeks ago, I wrote about stumbling upon the A100 Honorees that made me think: “Wow, I could do this too.” I continued to discover numerous oth...

The Sharing Circles: Two Stories of Circles and Indigenous Culture

Theresa Meuse-Dallien and Theresa Larsen-Jonasson are not only authors with surprisingly similar names, but they’ve also written books with surprisingly similar titles: The Sharing Circle. Both offer parents, educators, and children the opportunity to learn from or administer cu...

Sharing Earth Knowledge: The Indigenous Peoples Initiative

The first photo taken from space was captured by a rocket-borne camera launched from New Mexico in October 1946. It showed a grainy black-and-white image with clouds and a sharp horizontal line where the atmosphere ended and outer space began. As the Space Race gave us the ability to reach grea...

A journalist’s guide to biodiversity access and benefit-sharing

There’s a multi-billion-dollar yearly trade in medicines, foodstuffs and industrial products derived from plants, animals, fungi and bacteria. But many such products have been commercialized without any of the profits returning to the countries and communities whose biodiversity and traditiona...