Archive of stories published by Commons

Introducing Commons

David Rangel & Vijay Sundaram

The world is only a few decades into the Information Era but it feels like something is broken.

Throughout history, technological, economic, and social systems have generally co-evolved…


The Cryptoventure

David Rangel & Vijay Sundaram

In our last few posts, we covered how information networks and platforms expose the limitations of the corporation and how crypto presents a “native” model to address them.


The Arc of the Industrial Era Corporation

David Rangel & Vijay Sundaram

In our introductory post, we alluded to crypto’s potential to improve economic systems for the Information Era. Let’s situate this within the broader crypto landscape. There are…


The Rise of Information Era Capitalism

David Rangel & Vijay Sundaram

Our last post explored the origin of the equity-based, joint-stock corporation, and four critical ways in which Information Era networks and platforms are pushing Industrial Era…