Card for Qorflow – make a ripple in the Universe!

I feel this is ‘concrescing’ (see Whitehead Process and Reality) out of the Possiverse (C. S. Peirce) – the ‘continuum of Possibility’

Charles Sanders Peirce. Great philosopher, scientist, and mathematician. Served 30 years with the Coast and Geodetic Survey. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

as I do this. The graphics and their symbolism are very empowering… The painting is of the trees planted by the river which do not wither… from Jeremiah 17:8: For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreads out its roots by the river, and shall not fear when the heat comes, but its leaf shall be green; and shall not be anxious in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.

Painted when I was a young man – a Christian – one of my few during that intense and somewhat tortured period!

Now it has meaning for me in this context. The flow is in the world-wide web of people who connect to learn, live, create and love. The qorflow is a way to unchain this flow from the old ‘lumpy capitalism’ and bring it into the 21st century where flop and transparency are no longer the realms of religious or political idealism but are real, doable, and – I think – becoming necessary for any kind of sustainable prosperity.

The other symbolism is from the word, Qor. See Apples of Aeden for more on that, but it is about the central essence of a thing, and the ‘core’ as in apples – this is the part which contains the applestar, the five-pointed star of the seeds, arranged like the ‘Vitruvian Man’ picture by Da Vinci…

Soon the website will offer some functionality so you can enter your own enterprise/venture/idea and see what may concresce for you!

Meanwhile click follow on this blog so you are updated by email.

The World needs a new kind of capitalism – fast! Can YOU help?

Now I have linked this blog to Facebook: Introducing, yes, another new idea from the wizard of eutopia! This one’s fairly modest – just a plan to change the way the world invests. 🙂

Introducing the vision of  ‘Flux Capital’ and ‘www.Flowfunder.com – Investing in the Flow’ Based on my process theory of the tree of life, of course… The basic assumption is: big hidden piles of cash for power and control = BAD capitalism;  smooth transparent flows of cash circulating for value-creation = GOOD capitalism.

Do have a look at the first two posts in this new blog – and let me know if it rings any bells, moves any dials. If so, do click on the follow button on the site and get email updates. And email me or contact me in whatever way works for you. preferably email – I’m old-fashioned! or comment on the blog itself.

This one’s moving fast… i think! We so need something like this. Do you agree? Working on the blueprint, in the flow, as we speak.

A bit of music to go with the Flow, and introducing the Interflux…

This was a piece of electronic music I found when googling ‘flux Capital’ : I don’t particularly love it, but the title ‘fluxcapital’ i do! 🙂 In the Transit of Venusjust today, when I looked at the brilliant circle cast by the sun focused by a magnifying glass, I actually did see something – just not Venus. This is what I was looking for:

Transit of Venus 2012 New York City (Photo credit: Randy Le’Moine Photography)

What I actually saw was what looked like a sort of fractal triangle reaching across the sun. Only later did I realise – it was the branch of a distant tree; the sun was low in the sky. another sign?  – the tree is the basis for my diagram of all process: Well, I told you I was a ‘Pagan’! We pagans believe in signs and omens… since the world process is all connected, an organism of some kind. The Tree of Life, aka Yggdrasil, and many other names, is a potent symbol of the process of life, and of the central axis about which all life and the world ‘theatre of reactions’  (Charles Peirce,

Charles Sanders Peirce, an American pragmatist, logician, mathematician, philosopher, and scientist. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

an avid platonistic process theorist, referred  to the world process by this phrase) circulates. So, any successful new sharemarket requires new thinking – process thinking. Radical rethinking of value creation, growth, capital, and wealth. I propose the name Interflux (Or the less exotic ‘Interflow)  to describe the network of value-adding transparent nodes (‘businesses’) to be linked by their participation in the flowfunding contract. Peirce would have LOVED all this emerging on the web – it is SO process! More later…

The rivers of life still flow

‘For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreads out its roots by the river, and shall not fear when the heat comes, but its leaf shall be green; and shall not be anxious in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.’

(Jeremiah 17:8, KJ 2000 Bible)

The painting in the present header for this site is one I did when I was a Christian (now platonist process pagan but that’s another story!). It was of this Bible verse. In the background was the desert, where the rivers do not flow. When I looked in my usual haste for something to use for the header, this leapt to my eye. Funny, all those years later, here it is, and it’s so… current for me now! It IS the Year of Drought, has been for years for many people, the so-called ‘forever recession’  (seth godin),  BUT the rivers of value creation still flow, and those who find them will not be anxious any longer.

This flowfunder vision has expanded just today, and it is very exciting. All ‘the jagged pieces of my life have come together to form a complete, mystical whole.’ (Hook, the film) All the 20 years of thinking about process are coming to a confluence…

If you are interested in how value can be more truly created, expanded, and rewarded, for Jeremiah’s sake click the ‘Follow’ button on this blog, and/or email me, and comment here… The future is being created in places like this. ‘It is the stillest words that bring on the storm. Thoughts that come on doves’ feet guide the world…’ (thus spoke Zarathustra).

We need an accountable capitalism, and that requires that there be no more capital sitting in unholy piles as thrones for the ‘capitalists’ so many thinking people have come to reject as unfair, non-accountable, and enormously wasteful. What is needed, however, is not ‘people’s representatives’ sitting on the same unholy thrones (which sooner or later, like Tolkien’s  One Ring, corrupt those who sit in them), but for the piles of capital to become irrelevant as the healthy life-giving flow of funds begins to replace the old ‘lumpy’ ways.  This requires total  real-time accounting, total and real-time transparency, and total access to real-time individual participation for all with no bottom limit on how much is ‘invested’ – or rather ‘flow-funded’.

(I’ve just been ring to say go out and see the transit of venus – happening right now! A good sign, I’m sure! I went out into the paddock to the west of us and the sunlight was golden. But all i could see on the paper was a very bright circle – the sun… )

So, the future is flowing, I have some big hunches as to how it will happen. Watch this space. The doves are walking, Venus is invisibly crossing the sun… The future is coalescing.

 

 

Flowfunder is born – soon to be funding enterprises in real time

This is a brand new venture, to be evolved, just as all the ventures it will fund need to be evolved. Below is my first statement of the vision, to my brother who is in the TV and film industry  – Greenstone pictures http://www.greenstonetv.com/.

I have changed the previous working title of fluxfunder to the present title – Flowfunder.

“Here goes the elevator pitch:

Flowfunder.com is an open-source crowdfunding initiative to enable multiple micro-flows of funding for startups which are willing to be totally transparent, and (using our amazing new open-source software) show the real-time flow of funds through our aspectually evolving corporation. This software also allows the flow to be automatically reversed (on a pre-arranged percentage) as the enterprise begins to generate profits, and flowfund investors find that their weekly auto payment is balanced and hopefully eclipsed by a dividend flow back to their account. All in realtime, in the flow.

Contrast this with the ‘lumpy’ nature of capitalism in the past – you have a big idea, you do a big plan, go to a big bank, get a big loan, spend up big, make decisions in a closed boardroom, report once a year to shareholders who have bought lumps of shares, and every year if at all, pay them a dividend.

All SO not internet age stuff! All so open to distortion, illusion, and corruption.

so, Flowfunder is [part of] the future of capitalism!

It just occured to me that THIS is the way you cld raise money for films. You’d start with smaller one, get cashflow positive, then pitch on flowfunder.com your next project, and start getting the fans (worldwide on the web) openly pouring money into that fund, getting excited as they see the thing evolving – logging on daily, hourly to watch the progress (sneak previews of scenes etc) and check their ‘flow’ – wild parties when the tide turns and the money begins flowing into their bank? paypal? accounts.

if you doubt the possibility of this model, have a look at http://www.kickstarter.com. Some projects there are hugely OVERsubscribed. Cool concept, but still ‘lumpy’ like traditional capital raising. My idea is all about real-time, continuing beyond the intial ‘kickstart’.

Everyone who funds becomes a defacto shareholder in that flowfund project, and may reap whatever big or small rewards that come. Shares cld be traded as well – the buyer just takes over the seller’s funding circuit, or flow.

🙂

interested?”

There are many things to sort in this model, but as visionaries say, they are (merely?) ‘engineering details’. The vision is clear enough; now to look at those engineering – or architectural – details! If you read this and like the idea and want to help or advise or comment, please do follow this blog, and/or email me peter@eutopia.co.nz.

The architecture of the fund process will be based on my process philosophy which sees all entities as processes with five phases, or aspects. See my ebook ‘How to be Creative’ for a brief description of this:  I see all projects which come though flowfunder as being guided through the five phases, with wisdom from the members and the links provided as we find the best sources for help in the various areas of enterprise.