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TL;DR: The first step must be to calm our nervous systems; to return to center. From that grounded place, we can take longer-term actions. Second, we can cultivate resilience practices to support us amid turbulent times: taking a rest. Gardening. Spending time with nature, art, music, reading. Third: we have to build community, to invest in... See more

Radicle Civics are the emerging, entangled roots whose growth and nurture are vital for commons-centric civic infrastructures. To enable their development – and encourage cultures of equity, freedom, safety, and sustainability – we require a series of deep code innovations, so let’s now shift our focus towards systems change.

Visualizing a 90-Year Human Life in Weeks. Sometimes life seems really short, and other times it seems impossibly long. But this chart helps to emphasize that it’s most certainly finite. Those are your weeks and they’re all you’ve got. Given that fact, the only appropriate word to describe your weeks is precious. There are trillions upon trillions... See more

This post asserts something so seemingly obvious as to be unworthy of articulating. We all have bodies, and these billions of bodies make up the basis of what we call ‘the economy.’ The economy is not statistical numbers. The economy is not charts or acronyms like CPI, GDP, or the S&P. (No charts were used in the making of this post…we’ll save... See more

Following the learning from Reimagining Pay, we recently discussed an alternative structure for pay, which tries to find the unique sweet spot for pay for each individual that is regenerative for both the system and for the self.

DM shares a pay formula that accounts for Years experience* + x (+15% for freelancers) x 1000 = gross pro rata pay