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A big secret is that you can bend the world to your will a surprising percentage of the time—most people don’t even try, and just accept that things a
But more than anything, it is a time when the internet seems ripe for change, perhaps even being wide open to a new cohort of technologies and communi
In Good Hands
When hyper-individualism kicked into gear in the 1960s, people experimented with new ways of living that embraced individualistic values. Today we are
people still carve out community in the most hostile of places and subvert platforms to create space for human-first desires. We create solidarity inf
when a website, especially one that invites mass participation, goes offline or executes a huge dump of its data and resources, it’s as if a smallish
And as Emily Edlynn, a psychologist and the author of Autonomy-Supportive Parenting, told me, kids who feel like they have control over their life exp
What’s more, another study establishes that knowing that their parents value kindness above achievement protects kids’ well-being.
Children who feel valued in this way, and who believe that what they do adds value, generally come to understand that they matter. And a sense of matt
Create ownership in everything. Revenue shares in projects. Equity in micro-companies. Stakes in outcomes. The Old Game keeps you permanently renting
When individual entry is impossible, collective entry becomes optimal. When traditional financing fails, alternative structures win. The groups doing







