Does Meaning Even Matter?
Meaning Has Nothing to Do With Purpose. And I’m going to make a bold statement: Meaning is connection. If we look at what is meaningful in a…
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The Long Migration of Power
Given this crazy situation in which we find ourselves geopolitically and politically, how can one not spend a considerable amount of time thinking about the subject of…
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Let Community Service Be Your “Bling”
For a long time, I’ve noticed something that seems almost universal in communities that are struggling economically: status still matters. In many ways, it matters even more.…
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Is Being Too Comfortable Bad?
The Comfort Crisis: Embrace Discomfort to Reclaim Your Wild, Happy, Healthy Self by Michael Easter. Let’s take a look at the general ideas: Human beings evolved in conditions…
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Should Corporations Rule the World?
For most of human history, the idea that a corporation could become more powerful than a government would have sounded absurd. A corporation was supposed to be…
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The Community Memeplex
Much of my work is often described as community building, time co-ops, social capital, trust economies, mutual aid, mutual support, human capital, or social infrastructure. And those…
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Interesting Take on Dunbar’s Number
If you haven’t yet heard of Dunbar’s Number, here is a quick take from an article published in Cracked 18 years ago. Old but still relevant. David Wong’s…
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Community is the Foundation
Community is not a byproduct of society. It’s the foundation upon which society is built. And we seem to have gotten that backwards lately. It seems like…
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Banksy and Truman: “This is for you.”
Don’t you think there’s something different about art that’s given away? I do. And I’ve been working on this idea for years. It ended in a project…
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It’s More than Just “Capacity”
A lot of modern ideology assumes humans are infinitely interchangeable units with equal ability to navigate complexity independently. But lived reality says otherwise. People vary tremendously in…