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Essays:
Our Mutually Reinforcing Crises
No, The Economy Is Not Wonderful
The Wealthy Are Not Like You and Me: Our Terminally Stratified Society
I'm Not Really Enjoying the Show
The Child Within Is More Than "The Child Within"
Our Three Taboos (2023)
Weaponizing Global Depression (2023)
Our Economy In a Nutshell (2022)
Livelihoods in a Degrowth Economy (2022)
Doom Porn and Empty Optimism (2022)
A Note on my One-Star Reviews (2022)
The Community Economy Needs Its Own Money (2022)
The Only Non-Totalitarian Solution to Resource Scarcity: Decentralized Degrowth
CLIME: Community Owned Corporations
The Architecture of a Labor-Backed Cryptocurrency (2016)
A Teachable Moment: Being Fired from Yelp
Aspiring Writers: the Worst Advice You'll Ever Read (2005)
China: An Interim Report (2005)
((All songs / compositions are copyrighted, and all rights reserved globally)
The Original Song That Came To Me in a Dream... with Paul McCartney (Nov. 2023)
Love, Love, Love (April 2022)
You Owe Me (December 2021)
I Can't Hear What You Say (November 2020)
Peaceful Deviance (October 2018)
Dakini (April 2018)
The Next Revolution (February 2018)
Kitchen Sink Concerto #1 copyright 2017 (11/22/17) by Charles Hugh Smith
Obsession (2014)
Alex and Daz Theme (2013)
Hamakua Dreams (2013)
My Big Island Girl (2011)
My Audiobooks
Self-Reliance in the 21st Century
When You Can't Go On: Burnout, Reckoning and Renewal
Global Crisis, National Renewal: A (Revolutionary) Grand Strategy for the U.S.
A Hacker's Teleology: Sharing the Wealth of Our Shrinking Planet ($17.46)
Will You Be Richer or Poorer? Profit, Power, and AI in a Traumatized World
Pathfinding our Destiny: Preventing the Final Fall of Our Democratic Republic
Inequality and the Collapse of Privilege
Why Our Status Quo Failed and Is Beyond Reform
A Radically Beneficial World: Automation, Technology and Creating Jobs for All
Get a Job, Build a Real Career and Defy a Bewildering Economy
My Non-Fiction Books
Self-Reliance in the 21st Century
When You Can't Go On: Burnout, Reckoning and Renewal
Global Crisis, National Renewal: A (Revolutionary) Grand Strategy for the U.S.
A Hacker's Teleology: Sharing the Wealth of Our Shrinking Planet
Will You Be Richer or Poorer? Profit, Power, and AI in a Traumatized World
Pathfinding our Destiny: Preventing the Final Fall of Our Democratic Republic
Inequality and the Collapse of Privilege
Why Our Status Quo Failed and Is Beyond Reform
A Radically Beneficial World: Automation, Technology and Creating Jobs for All
Get a Job, Build a Real Career and Defy a Bewildering Economy
The Nearly Free University and the Emerging Economy: The Revolution in Higher Education
Resistance, Revolution, Liberation: A Model for Positive Change
Why Things Are Falling Apart and What We Can Do About It
An Unconventional Guide to Investing in Troubled Times
Survival+: Structuring Prosperity for Yourself and the Nation
Weblogs & New Media: Marketing in Crisis
My Novels
The Asian Heroine Who Seduced Me
The Adventures of the Consulting Philosopher: The Disappearance of Drake
My "definition" of success:
1. Did I make myself useful today?
2. Did I take care of myself today and avoid burdening anyone with my cares and troubles?
3. Were I to meet the living Jesus or Buddha at day's end, would I feel ashamed of my conduct
during the day, or could I meet his gaze with the inner knowledge that I emulated his
teachings to the very best of my ability?
live free - live well - live with integrity - live with kindness - be average but with
self-discipline
8 things to aspire to:
integrity
austerity
restraint
humility
responsibility
patience
sacrifice
thrift
