Andy’s Recent Content
Private Equity: Meet the New Boss; Same as the Old Boss
Not too far into Hettie O’Brien’s The Asset Class: How Private Equity Turned Capitalism Against Itself, it occurred to me that I was reading a familiar story. The financial sector found a new scheme to take other people’s money and put it into their pockets. The schemes are technically legal, but morally repugnant. I remember […]
Universal Basic _____ … Income or Services?
As we start getting into the activation work of After Capitalism, it will be necessary to make some choices. Over the last decade or so, I’ve used universal basic income a lot, primarily because it’s more well known than its cousin – universal basic services. I don’t know that a choice is necessary – perhaps […]
Mental Models Don’t Change Easily … and They Shouldn’t
I often hear complaints about mental models and their resistance to change. Yes, we are trying to influence and change mental models. But we must also recognize that this is a long process. Mental models should not change easily. It’s a species survival mechanism. We are blasted with so much information that if we changed […]
ABOUT ANDY HINES
Dr. Andy Hines is Associate Professor and Program Coordinator at the University of Houston’s Graduate Program in Foresight, bringing together the experience he earned as an organizational, consulting, and academic futurist. He is also speaking, workshopping, and consulting through his firm Hinesight.
