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#health Hacks with Casey Fenton of UpStock and CouchSurfing
▻https://hackernoon.com/health-hacks-with-casey-fenton-of-upstock-and-couchsurfing-3f4624b972e4?

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Episode 10: Part 2 of an interview with Casey Fenton, CEO and Founder of UpStock, and Co-Founder of CouchSurfing.Listen to the interview on iTunes, or Google #podcast, or watch on YouTube.In this episode Trent and Casey discuss health hacks, how to live longer, and how to improve your overall health with simple tips and tricks.“If you can get someone in your life who loves you, to help you hack yourself… to get you to think ‘I care about my health, I care about my health, I want to live a healthy way for a long time.’ Get someone to help you get that kernel, that little nugget that is health #hacking, and that will grow.”“You will start to see all little things in your environment, all over the place, that corroborate and bolster of this identity that ‘I care about my health, and I love myself,’ (...)

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#hacking The #ego with Casey Fenton of UpStock and CouchSurfing
▻https://hackernoon.com/hacking-the-ego-with-casey-fenton-of-upstock-and-couchsurfing-98b63138b1

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Episode 9: Part 1 of an interview with Casey Fenton, CEO and Founder of UpStock, and Co-Founder of CouchSurfing.Listen to the interview on iTunes, or Google #podcast, or watch on YouTube.In this episode Trent Lapinski interviews Casey Fenton, who is working on a new book on ego hacking. In this episode Trent and Casey discuss some of the techniques Casey has been researching and presenting that are going to be included in his new book which he’s still working on.“It is so important to think about how we become our identity. We have to be very careful with how we are programmed. What is in our identity? What does that cause? We automatically find more of it, whatever it is. A lot of the time the authentic self is intuitively what I feel in my heart and soul, but maybe that authentic self (...)

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Should #couchsurfing Be a DAO ?
▻https://hackernoon.com/should-couchsurfing-be-a-dao-6507646e34ef?source=rss----3a8144eabfe3---4

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A couple of years ago, I published an article entitled “The Sharing Economy: A Social Movement Dying to Become an Economic One.” At the time, I was disenchanted by the direction in which the sharing economy was heading.I’d experienced the joy of connecting without money — sharing meals and homes (including my own home) with complete strangers on Couchsurfing.com, gifting access to my car while I traveled, and experimenting with random acts of generosity, like buying a cup of coffee for someone standing behind me in line. These experiences were so transformational that I volunteered to help shoot a documentary, One Couch at a Time, which highlighted the relational aspects of the burgeoning sharing economy.Collaborators on “One Couch at at Time” & It’s a Shareable LifeWith time, the social (...)

#p2p #sharing-economy #decentralization #blockchain

Six Degrees of Omidyar - Whimsley
▻http://tomslee.net/2013/09/six-degrees-of-omidyar.html

Le milliardaire Pierre Omidyar, qui veut fonder un nouveau type de journalisme avec Greenwald et 250 M$, a déjà à son actif la destruction d’organisations de microfinance, de philanthropie, le site couchsurfing, etc.

the orga­ni­za­tion that funded Couchsurfing’s tran­si­tion from non­profit to profit-driven com­pany (...): the Omid­yar Net­work. Again, it saw mar­kets and profit as a way to scale up a non-market oper­a­tion, and again the #profit motive is dri­ving out the non-commercial effort that is needed to sus­tain a trust­ing com­mu­nity.
Update (Octo­ber 15 2013): Couchsurfing’s CEO just resigned and 40% of the staff was layed off.

#turbocapitalisme la #disruption arrive dans la #presse via @cryptome