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I had seen the power of microcredit working with refugees and those caught in a cycle of poverty in Indonesia. Small businesses that didn't have a...
I was on a morning run in Swaziland in 2007. I have a practice of praying as I run. And sometimes I hear what I sense is the voice of God whisperi...
In earlier blogs I introduced the idea that those trapped in poverty can be empowered by integrating them into a micro-economy that uses bitcoin as cu...
In my blog last week, I shared the story of El Zonte, El Salvador, a town that decided two years ago to switch its currency to bitcoin. Most pe...
At 60 years old, Adrian Torres had lost all his teeth. Life has been hard on Torres. A construction worker in El Salvador, he has had to live paych...
Imagine you're leading a department in a business. But you know that your tech stack is outmoded. You need to upgrade. How do you know what investm...
How is your relationship with your father? Are you able to be vulnerable with him? I've seen so many young people with a poor relationshi...
What could a man possibly teach us about a women's movement? Perhaps the life of David Yonggi Cho, who passed away last week, has something to teach...
In 1981, Karen and I lived in Jakarta and worked in Bali. One day, my boss, David Bussau, said, "There's a village part-way up a volcano that is ve...
What a horrible phase of life middle school was for me. Barely graduated from sixth grade, I was 77 pounds and suddenly found myself in West Jr. ...
