The Next Wave of Cancel Culture
Cancel culture has found its way to the world of the written word. And just when we thought it was over. This bizarre manifestation of social engineering,…
Culture
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Buridan’s Ass: Precarity is So Much More Than Just Scarcity
A Comprehensive Look At Community Stability Programs There’s an old philosophical thought experiment called Buridan’s Ass. Basically, there’s a donkey standing between food and water. He’s hungry…
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KommunityKoin as an Adaptive Cohousing System: Rebuilding Community Within the Neighborhoods People Already Call Home
Abstract Cohousing has emerged as a promising response to social isolation, population aging, caregiver strain, housing insecurity, and the weakening of neighborhood relationships. Conventional cohousing communities combine…
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When the System Fails, People Build Their Own: Understanding the Rise of Micro-Economies
Introduction Many people might assume that a “micro-economy” is just microeconomics with a hyphen. It’s a reasonable guess, but it’s wrong. Microeconomics is a field of study.…
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The Subscription Life: When Ownership Became a Rental Agreement
It certainly appears that the subscription economy, which we had all been sucked into kicking and screaming (initially), is now actively (d)evolving into the subscription life. This…
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What the Village Movement Can Teach the Time Banking Movement (And Vice Versa)
Over the past two decades, the Village Movement has demonstrated something that many community movements struggle to achieve: consistent participation. Across the United States, hundreds of Village…
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We Can’t Build Communities: You’ll See Why.
It’s taken a long time but I’m beginning to think that communities aren’t built. Organizations are built. But communities.. they emerge. That may seem like a small…
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Context Collapse: Why We’re Losing the Story Behind the Story
One of the greatest challenges of our time isn’t misinformation, per se. It’s missing information. More specifically, it’s missing context. Context collapse is what happens when information…
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Bottom-Up Social Infrastructure
Definition: Bottom-Up Social Infrastructure is the network of relationships, trust, participation, and shared intention that enables communities to solve problems together without relying exclusively on top-down institutions.…
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On the Value of Attention
I’ve written before that money isn’t value. Money is a claim on value. The two are related, but they’re not the same thing. We often confuse the…