Course Modules:

1. Understanding the Ergodic Capital Problem

• Objective: Grasp the core of why most business strategies fail under uncertainty and how to avoid this.

• What You’ll Learn:

  • Why traditional investing and business models collapse under unpredictability.

  • How non-ergodic dynamics of business play out in real life (events like market crashes, supply chain breakdowns, or unexpected disruptions can destroy businesses.)

  • Case studies: Of companies who ignored systemic risks that led to their collapse.

Exercise: Perform a risk audit on your current business or startup idea, identifying assumptions that could be fragile under extreme conditions.

2. Building Antifragile Business Models 

Objective: Create business models that don’t just withstand the polycrisis but grow stronger from it.

• What You’ll Learn:

  • The key principles of ergodicity and how to design your business around them.

  • Why and how adaptive business models can create the conditions for ergodicity

  • How to identify areas of fragility in your business and what you can do about it

Exercise: Map out your current business structure and identify which areas are fragile. Redesign them using ergodic principles.

3. Designing Ergodic Ecosystems for Long-Term Resilience

Objective: Learn how to design ecosystems of companies that create conditions for ergodicity by investing into the whole.

What You’ll Learn:

• How fractional profit pooling and shared governance promote ecosystem-wide resilience.

Exercise: Map out your ecosystem’s key players (other organizations in the value chain, stakeholders etc)  and identify one area where fractional profit pooling could create mutual benefit. 

Learning Outcomes:

• Distinguish ergodic from non-ergodic systems, applying this discernment to de-risk business operations and investments.
• Understand the failures of traditional probability models and how ergodic strategies can offer superior solutions.
• Apply ergodic principles to enhance circular and regenerative economies, identifying pathways for resource regeneration and resilience.
• Implement ergodic investment strategies that foster interconnected ecosystems, enabling fair wealth distribution.
• Utilize practical tools and templates to apply ergodic thinking in business decisions and investment strategies.