About the Author

Roger Lewis retired at 39 after substantial success in property development, spent twenty years observing the world from what he calls "Grub Street in Exile," and returned to business at 60 to found Home@ix, an affordable housebuilding company organized around cooperative principles. He divides his time between Sweden and the UK, and can often be found in conversation with strawberry plants about the finer points of network economics.

But first, let us learn from the strawberries.