Living in Negotiated Space
As larger, top-down frameworks weaken or become less relevant, people naturally turn to the local — to communities where they have direct relationships and real influence. It…
Finance and Economy
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The Architecture of the Cage: How Belonging Became a Transaction
This is a compilation of four essays with similar threads. They’ve been woven together into a single narrative that is both interesting and possibly concerning. Definitely worth…
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How to Really Change the World
I’ve been having a conversation on Substack about social movements and how change actually happens. And I realized that what I’ve been doing instinctively has a solid foundation in…
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Our Future Domain
Small players don’t win by trying to out-scale the giants. That game’s already decided. The advantage, for the 99%, is shifting upstream — earlier in the chain,…
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Real Scarcity is Coming
One aspect of the Western economic system has been the leveraging of manufactured scarcity. Markets have always played at scarcity to drive up demand and price. But…
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Who’s Right About Economics?
Economists tend to fall into two camps, and if you listen to them long enough it begins sounding like a long-running family argument at Thanksgiving. On one…
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The Nation Without a Land
A nation is more than a place on a map. It is a shared story, a common allegiance, a belief in something that binds its people together.…
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Upstream Is Not Charity; When Doing Good Makes Financial Sense
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…
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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…
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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…