"How much or how little money changes hands doesn’t make it philanthropy. Intention and effort make it philanthropy." – MacKenzie Scott

Good day,   I am getting this out a week later than planned and hoping to get back-to-back newsletters out for January because there are so many signals for what's coming.   On a personal note it has been a wild holiday and new year season so far. I got married on December 18th in a surprise wedding ceremony to Amanda Patanow and moved out of my Downtown Tampa apartment after 10 years to a neighborhood in St. Petersburg together. Two apartment moves, two bouts of Covid, and two family caretaking challenges have left the newlyweds tired but grateful for the social capital provided through love, family, and friends.   I hope that you have cultivated plenty of social capital as you begin your year and find my foresight emails a helpful guide as you navigate your potential futures.

Foresight Friday   Forward looking and reflective thoughts I’ve stumbled on, found interesting, or just generally think are worth taking a look at.

Trends: MacKenzie Scott's Contributions to Giving MacKenzie Scott addresses the term 'philanthropy' Andrew Carnegie is often considered the father of modern philanthropy. I believe that MacKenzie Scott will similarly become known for bringing the biggest changes to the art and science of giving in the twenty-first century. Her recent post addresses the diminished meaning of the word philanthropy and how economics fails to address the social sector in a meaningful way.

Trends: Four-day work week Increasingly companies, regions, and industries are experimenting with variations on the four-day work week.   Dozens of British companies have volunteered to take part in a pilot program offering four-day work weeks for employees. Panasonic joins Japan's budding shift toward 4-day workweek

Making Tech Work for Us The future of work is asynchronous One of the challenges posed by shorter work days and weeks is how to align the efforts of people in different places and times. Can we make work asynchronous? A veteran Googler who founded multipurpose messaging app Rock maintains that operating asynchronously lets work get done on time with less stress and from a wider talent pool.

Examining the intersection of how we work and how we give excites me. By addressing the need for people to have more time for themselves we simultaneously provide people with more social capital to share with family, friends, and community.   What do you think of 4-day work weeks? Are you in a position to try it with your team or company?

Gratefully,   Vinny Tafuro   Visionary. Economist. Hacker. "I see distant horizons clearly and work meticulously towards them." Institute for Economic Evolution, Founder 813.240.0739

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