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Do What You Can, With What You've Got, Where You Are. Also contains related ideas like stewardship of the commons.
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Do What You Can, With What You've Got, Where You Are. Also contains related ideas like stewardship of the commons.
Understanding the importance of the P4P moment in the long evolution of the commons.
A ‘Valley of the Commons’ special on the construction of the Archipelago of Regenerative Projects
How Cultivating Awe Can Save the World — Douglas Rushkoff
The best-kept but scientifically-validated secret for engendering generosity
Everything is In-Between — Douglas Rushkoff
I’ve begun this piece maybe twenty times in the past three weeks. By the time I’ve finished the first paragraph, some new thing happens that obsolesces whatever event I’m writing about. And I’m not even writing about the news, so much as using one shared moment as a “peg” for a piece about some larger phenomenon or strategy.
CityNerd — Is It An Actual Thing? And Can Cities Fix It?
If you're like a lot of people, the whole idea of the "male loneliness epidemic" elicits a huge eye roll more than anything. Well, today we're digging into the research on why this is an emerging issue, and whether urban planning is part of the solution.
Pluralistic: All (antitrust) politics are local (02 Sep 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
The US government has abandoned antitrust. Today, companies facing antitrust jeopardy can just pay key Trumpland figures a million bucks, and they will make a discreet visit to the fifth floor of the DoJ building, have a little shoofty around the Antitrust Division and the whole thing will just…go away:
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What Is To Be Done?
I don’t want to criticize people who seem to like the situation… Instead I’ll focus on people who are trying to do something other than be a number, even as they are subsumed by the new reality of number supremacy.
Borrow a Drill, Save the World — Douglas Rushkoff
The high leverage point for systemwide change is not an idea, but a behavior
Trust in the Federal Government Makes People Less Likely to Help One Another, Study Finds
But trust in local interventions boosts civic engagement.
Good, Standard Work: Creating the Commons
A defence of digital stewardship, IndieWeb principles, Blackfoot models of collective flourishing, and what it means to plant seeds in a garden you'll neve…
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I want everybody to live very close
There is a piece of artwork I saw a few years ago by that has become a kind of north star. It's titled A Well Spent Life by Joanna Sky Fusco: I used t...
