Nilenso is a small employee-owned software co-operative in Bangalore. Though young, we've had a successful life as both a consultancy and product company. We've experimented with some of our ideas and been surprised at which ones worked. We'd love it if you stole some of them from us.

1. nilenso: the idea
(what, why, how)
[ questions only at the end, please ]

2. Capitalism.

3. has capitalism made the world a better place?

5. what now?

6. MORE CAPITALISM!

7. what causes exponential inequality?

11. what do we mean, “what now?”

12. 今がベストです
(now is best)

13. what is “now”?

15. “now” is evolving global capitalism

16. 200 BC:
silk road
1500:
maritime
1800:
industrial
2015:
information

17. “now” is often thought of as the “present moment”

18. our lives are a span of time comprised of many of these individual
moments
the now of 10,000 years is comprised of many individual lifespans
utility on a 10,000 year time scale must come from action on the
scale of your lifespan

19. what are you doing with your life?

20. the 5 whys

21. “to make money”

22. assume you are already making money
ask why the business exists at all

23. what are you doing with your life?

24. we don’t know either, but we’re trying

25. what

26. kulu
equity
commercial
open source
cafe

27. what a corporate co-op isn’t
union
kibbutz
communism
hippie commune
socialism
an equity structure
indian “co-operative” legal entity
a non-profit

28. what a corporate co-op is
equal ownership:
…remunerated through salaries
…re-distributed on entry
…lost on exit

29. how

30. (these are all stolen ideas. we encourage you to steal
them too.)

31. a constitution

32. a representative democracy

33. administrative autonomy

34. project autonomy

35. personal autonomy

36. complete transparency

45. why

46. hiring in technology
high salaries, equity (flawed), travel, perks, and more

47. and more…?
a specific example

48. a process > no process
documentation > an undocumented process
automation > documentation
elimination > automation

50. automation is the opposite of “job creation”

51. automating all industries means being adjacent to all
industries, which makes us the most privileged industry

53. the desire exercise

54. why wait?

55. nilenso: the ideas

56. Bibliography
Global poverty statistics: http://www.gapminder.org
Wealth inequality in America: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPKKQnijnsM
The Long Now Foundation: http://longnow.org/
In Praise of Idleness: http://www.zpub.com/notes/idle.html
Questions?