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Starting projects and embracing “theories of change” became de rigeur .
Paul Musgrave • Move Slow and Fix Things
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The Common Purpose Project was another Media Matters–related attempt to coax the news narrative to the left, this time in coordination with the Obama White House. Started in 2009, it was a politically oriented tax-exempt 501(c)(4). Organizers held weekly meetings on Tuesdays at the Capitol Hilton with officials from a variety of familiar left-wing
... See moreSharyl Attkisson • The Smear: How Shady Political Operatives and Fake News Control What You See, What You Think, and How You Vote
Lack of leadership & poor ability to coordinate — We’ve already seen the teams that built Compound & Uniswap take a step back, leaving the communities scrambling to self-organize. This initially resulted in near stagnation for both protocols. Given regulatory pressures, we’re almost certainly going to see this trend continue. More broadly, communit... See more
Jacob Phillips • Governance Mining — liquidity mining for human capital
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when the going gets tough, Americans build new civic institutions .
Eli Pariser • 🏘️ 🌐 Your town’s online group matters more than you think
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He oversaw a project called Dreamcatcher that was a big bet on textual analytics, a systematic effort to determine patterns in all of the personal information and stories collected throughout the campaign, from a canvasser’s clipboard to a call center conversation to the Share Your Story function on the campaign website.
Ray Velez • Converge: Transforming Business at the Intersection of Marketing and Technology
As Burke said in describing his early years in Albany, “Murphy delegates to the point of anarchy.”7
William Thorndike • The Outsiders: Eight Unconventional CEOs and Their Radically Rational Blueprint for Success
social change always begins with people who have “both a critical eye and a hopeful heart.”
Sam Pressler • Building societal structures to hold the messiness of our relationships
hollowing out the rudiments of democratic culture, especially the skills and habits of accountable association.