For most of modern nonprofit history, we’ve raised money by telling stories of need. We show the hungry child. The overwhelmed mother. The struggling family. And we say: “Look. Help. […]
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What If Your Neighborhood Became an Intentional Community?
What if nothing changed… and yet everything did? I don’t mean selling your house and moving to a commune where everyone owns exactly two spoons and a shared goat named […]
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The Party is Over
Since the end of World War II—and with the birth of the mass marketing industry—we have been slowly replacing connection with consumption. Our lives used to be about people. About […]
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Why Small Communities are the Survival Strategy of the Future
This is an edited and recycled piece from the past. Enjoy. It doesn’t take an economist to see what’s happening. We all know that we’re in the beginning stages of […]
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On Free Markets, Capital, and the Illusion of a Perfect System
I had a brief exchange with someone a few days ago about capitalism and free markets (then sussed it out further with ChatGPT). I found it very interesting and wanted […]
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Loneliness Capitalism
I just ran across a video on YouTube titled Loneliness Capitalism. That’s awesome. What an interesting idea. And no, I don’t mean loneliness is awesome, or that loneliness capitalism is […]
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Entropy and the Cost of Holding Things Together
Entropy is a word that sounds scientific enough to be safely ignored by most. A physics term, yes. A classroom idea, maybe. Something about heat death and disorder that has […]
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What Really Motivates Us to Work
Social incentive to work versus monetary incentive to work We’re all familiar with the paradigm of a monetary incentive to work. It’s, basically, the way a society motivates its citizens […]
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Welcome to the Age of Agency
Once again, I find myself opining on something I heard in a YouTube video recently. The age of knowledge is over.This is the age of agency. I’ve talked a lot, […]
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Surrender Is Not An Option
As the economy continues to worsen, the old system of get a job → cash your paycheck → live your life is going to become less and less common. And […]