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Essays, on practical systems design and our efforts to create real immediate change.

People don't ruin the world, systems do

If you want to solve big problems it doesn't help to blame individuals. You have to fix the systems those individuals live in.

Democracy doesn't have to suck

There are literally infinite ways do democracy, we just happen to use some of the worst ways.

Meetings are the enemy of Direct Democracy

Live meetings, while important for socializing and collaboration, are terrible for calmly arriving at the best solution to a problem.

The massive, but unrealized, power of cooperatives

Cooperatives governed using more adaptive and accountable systems could be much smoother and more ambitious.

Online creators should own and control the platforms they rely on

I'm building a cooperative creator platform that will compete with Patreon and Substack etc, giving the profits and control back to the creators who make them valuable.