communities of practice
Naming things can mobilize - investment, attention, and capital. Naming things can create identity and a sense of collective purpose and pride.
New_ Public • Celebrating the labor that holds up our democracy: the community entrepreneur
In this place of transition - a place that feels disorienting, confusing, messy - we need to be learning from each other, plural in the possibilities we generate, and willing to let go of those mental frameworks that are no longer serving us well.
Sophia Parker • Emerging Futures at JRF - Two Years In, the Story So Far
Brian Dell • LF11 - Cohort Futures
Critical connections between future-builders matter more than critical mass in long-term transformative work: without these, nothing new can emerge. Networks are the lifeblood of emergence, and yet so much of the way life is organised gets in the way of pioneers connecting
Sophia Parker • Emerging Futures at JRF - Two Years In, the Story So Far
Medium • Magic, belief systems + web3
The Relationship Is the Richness
People are an essential ingredient of social infrastructure.
New_ Public • 🤔 Revisiting Discord, libraries, and Somewhere Good
To me, the key is the identification and redistribution of latent value back to the community through compelling engagement loops, and the encouragement of long-term incentive models for group coordination.