Principles

Wealth

Attention and money are counterparts. The scarcity of both constrain all other factors of wealth creation. People through their attention and interactions transform financial capital into more wealth.

Evidence

Interactions and transactions are counterparts. The thorough documentation of transactions through accounting allows investors to receive lasting returns on their financial investments. Workers, investing themselves, lack rigorous evidence of their own interactions. To the extent that the imbalance of evidence between human capital and financial capital persists, the intangible drivers of wealth creation will remain poorly understood.

Interaction

Action is derivative of the individual. It is speech in the broadest sense, encompassing everything one does. The range of possible interactions is, in part, determined by the opportunity platform provided by an employer. But, the range may also be determined by open or free platforms. The quality of attention brought to the interaction helps determine the return on the interaction.

Property

A record of an interaction is a form of economic property co-owned by the individual and employer or platform provider. A fractional archive of recordings made by an employer or platform provider must be made with the volition of the individual authoring the interaction, and not coerced. Individuals have the right to create and maintain their own holistic archive of authored interactions made over a career.

Control

Control of one's archive is shared with the employer for the fraction of one's career spent leveraging that employer's opportunity platform. Storage, deletion, public access and/or selective access to the archive by third parties are determined by the individual and employer for that period.

Economy

Prosthetic memory and other advantages obtained from one's archive will reduce search time and re-work, resulting in higher levels of productivity. The exchange of varying degrees of archive transparency with trusted third parties will result in various economic, collaborative and risk reducing benefits.

Privacy

Due to the varying degrees of sensitivity of data within private archives, individuals and employers must receive granular levels of protection, superior to the protection given to money and other forms of financial capital.

Balance

Wealth production is maximized to the extent that there is win-win parity between human and financial capital. This requires evidence to allow for proper understanding of origination and attribution, and agreements that determine outcomes based on this evidence.