All Tools

Technical articles discussing specific tools and frameworks. These are written more for reference than for readability.

Hybrid of Weighted Direct Democracy and board governance

A bylaws structure that hybridizes weighted direct democracy with normal board oversight.

Document Elections

Holding open elections for documents allows groups to evolve their actual governance code in a holistic and directly democratic manner.

Voter Initiated Elections

Paradigm where all elections can be directly initiated by voters at any time.

Weighted Direct Democracy

A mode of direct democracy intended to replace slow and irrational meetings with asynchronous elections.

Participation-based voting weights

A highly fluid mechanism for allocating voting weight in a cooperative, such that large differences in involvement and concern don't become pathological.

Proportional Cost Sharing

A simple mechanism for a cooperative enterprise to set member prices that ensures members are maximizing savings while ensuring the cooperative will always fully cover costs.

Quadratic Scaling

A way to modify weighted voting systems that dampens the power of members with much more weight than others.

Activist Entrepreneurship

The act of founding and building a private organization whose core ownership model makes it inherently activist in nature. Entrepreneurship that intends to actually transform the shape of society.

Weighted Score Voting

A method for weighting voter concern across many disparate decisions.

Cooperative Investment Pledges

A loan-like mechanism to incentivize cooperative members to invest in the enterprise without the need for universal investment requirements or tiered shares.

Systems Realism

A philosophical and analytical frame for thinking about human systems, holding that systems are fully determined by their rules, and human systems are nothing more than promises.