Do good, earn points: Innovative or corrosive?
A frequent expectation, amongst those enthusiastic both about apps and about doing good, is that at some point we’ll work out a realistic and fun way to ‘game’ volunteering. At which point, it willl take off like farmville and we’ll have a thriving economy of people doing good and earning redeemable points. This is reflected [...]
I want to be angry
I got angry today, and it surprised me because it was so physical, focused, energising, and strange. It felt like remembering a forgotten emotion. But I’m angry about all sorts of things, I thought: a myriad injustices, short-sightedness, destructiveness. I’m not, very often. I don’t actually feel angry about them. I just feel a pervasive, [...]