product partnerships at New_Public; previously community & growth @ Geneva
Over the last 50 years, people have shifted away from meeting and volunteering regularly in associations and informal gatherings such as support groups and Bible study groups, choosing instead to engage through “checkbook participation,” where we outsource and pay local and national organizations who hire professional staff to do the good works and... See more
Technology cannot fix the fact that freedom is an endless meeting, but it can make the meetings shorter and less painful with new collaborative tools and by automating the worst of the bureaucracy
The fact that the digital and the analog are interwoven is not the problem. Not only is it to be expected that all human activities connect to one another, but the mutual encroachment of different governance systems with one another is, under normal circumstances, highly desirable because it makes the resulting system polycentric .9 A polycentric... See more