New Insights on Capacity
I’ve spent much of my career thinking I was trying to solve problems. Whether they be… Poverty. Homelessness. Healthcare. Food insecurity. Community. And those are indeed worthy…
Finance and Economy
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Which Came First, the Chicken or the Egg? Really?
When we encounter someone living in chronic need, there’s often an unspoken question lingering beneath the surface. How much of their situation was caused by their choices?…
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You Can’t Just Lean on a Shovel and Pray for a Hole.
I guess it sounds obvious when you say it that way. But, people do it all the time. We hope for better relationships while isolating ourselves from…
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The Real Work is Stewardship
For many years, I believed my work was about changing things. I believed the challenge was to build better systems, create stronger networks, develop new models of…
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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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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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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…
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“The Dawn of Everything” by David Graeber and David Wengrow
At its core, this book is an argument that most of what modern people assume about human history is either oversimplified… or outright wrong. The standard story…
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Frameworks for a Better Theory of Change
The Problem Statement Modern systems optimized for production and consumption have systematically dismantled the social infrastructure (trust, reciprocity, belonging, mutual obligation) that once made communities strong. And…