Posts by James van der Hoven
Hemp production in South Africa – a heartful meeting of minds
Today we met with Lance, our lead on the hemp production side of the Leaderless project. Our goal is to grow hemp on the land we identify and use it to build out the buildings we want to build along the 3000km fiber optic line of the Long Ride To Freedom. Sipho Kwakeni, our spokeswoman…
Read MoreLong Ride To Freedom – 2022
We’re back in the saddle in 2022. The Long Ride To Freedom is a 3000km ride from Johannesburg to Cape Town where we will stop at 10 locations to… Reboot and reset the economy in a radically new direction. Build trust in Ecommerce. Identify the land where the sustainable innovation villages will be built. Encourage…
Read MoreKing Bantu Ntuntwana offers land for 99 years
Siva Naidoo has done the amazing work of negotiating land with King Bantu Ntuntwana of the Eastern Cape to allow us to use of his land for the next 99 years. Here we will build an innovative village to help shift people into the digital age.
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Become an Affiliate Marketer to help people prepare for joblessness in the digital age of disruption
We have 571 weeks left until 2030 to make significant changes to our climate – let’s go! In our previous post, we chatted about how we are going to get organised to help an entire country pivot and shift into the digital age of disruption. Our initial goal is to get at least one Virtual…
Read MoreGetting Organised, Building Trust and Removing Greed
We wish you only the best for 2019. Following on from our post on the 1st about taking extreme ownership, we explain how we as South Africans will get organised and begin taking extreme ownership of our own lives this year. Why do we need to do this? Because we’ve lost trust in the systems…
Read MoreGoodbye 2018, hello extreme ownership in 2019
Ask not what your country did for you in 2018, ask what you can do for your country in 2019 ~ (a slight change to John F. Kennedy’s words) As we say goodbye to 2018, a year filled with more political chaos and scandal than one could ever need in a lifetime, I am filled…
Read MoreLooking For Ecommerce Social Entrepreneurs With Serious Grit to build Wakanda in South Africa
We’re looking for Ecommerce Social Entrepreneurs with Serious Grit! In this post, we speak about our plans to build Decentralised Innovation Hubs and how we will bypass supermarkets using Ecommerce and Blockchain technology.
Read MoreAsking our clients for help to build a big 3D printer
What if we could 3D print our own cars, disrupt the transport industry and clean up the planet in the process?
Read MoreThe Long Ride To Freedom – connecting the dots
In October we head up the coast of South Africa to identify land for our Decentralised Innovation Hubs and to educate people about ecommerce.
Read MoreShuttleworth Foundation – the first big funding application
It’s off! Our first big funding application to help us build the next stages of Leaderless from the Shuttleworth Foundation! Next stop an Initial Coin Offering (ICO) to crowd fund additional funding to help Social Entrepreneurs create jobs of the future.
Read MoreLeaderless is now a Non Profit Company!
At long last, Leaderless is a registered as a Non Profit Company. In this post we talk about the Hybrid model we will be following.
Read MoreElon Musk is not going to Mars, he’s hopping to Kepler-186f
I don’t think Elon Musk is going to Mars, I think he is going to hop from one planet to another. And the more I think about what we’re doing at Leaderless, the more I realise that we’re preparing people to hop through space some day. Let me explain…
Read MoreWhy we will need a Universal Basic Income
Many people ask me, “when are we going to make money out of Bitcoin again?” My answer is always the same. “You will make money with Bitcoin, but you’re missing the entire point of Bitcoin” What many people are not seeing are the parallels that are happening in the world at the same time. It…
Read MoreDecentralised innovation hubs of the future
What if we never have to worry about food, water, data or electricity again? What if we can create a universal basic income for people living in decentralised innovation hubs that teach people how to take ownership? What if people can choose their own laws using smart contracts and artificial intelligence within these decentralised innovation…
Read MoreWhat if we could watch a million different versions of the same movie with Bitcoin
I took down my television antenna just the other day and as I looked at this wire mesh that had blown skew in the wind in 2011, rendering nothing but white snow, I was struck by how much this piece of metal had managed to influence my entire life which then sparked a train of…
Read MoreWhat if Bitcoin is just an agreement to set us free from fear
If ever you’ve read The Four Agreements and the Fifth agreement, and truly allowed these principles to sink in and let it become your new reality, then you would understand that everything in life is just an agreement in some form or another. So too is it with money. I’d like to add a…
Read MoreFunding Leaderless. PTY vs Non Profit vs ICOs
Yesterday, I went to see our accountant about setting up the Non Profit entity for Leaderless. Initially, I wanted to set Leaderless up as a profit making business that uses it’s profits to do more social good but after consulting with other Non Profits and to win trust among more people at the end of…
Read MorePlanting trees in a decentralised innovation hub to create jobs of the future
What if we could give our kids a jump start to use their Universal Basic Salaries to explore the world and plant trees using the technologies of the 4iR?
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