The Meltdown Blog

1. Hope: Taleb's "Ten principles for a Back Swan-proof world"

[..] we will see an economic life closer to our biological environment: smaller companies, richer ecology, no leverage. A world in which entrepreneurs, not bankers, take the risks and companies are born and die every day without making the news.

Sounds great. Definitely worth reading. If you think this won't work, check out link no. 2.

2. When the shit hits the fan: The art of survival: Essential skills for the post-apocalyptic world

Over a barbecue dinner later that night, Reeve asked why I'd signed up for the course. "I think things have changed for my generation," I told him. "We were born with a silver spoon in our mouths, but now it's being removed. And most of us never learned how to take care of ourselves. So I've spent the last two years trying to get the skills and documents I need to prepare for an uncertain future."