Will Ruddick
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Econo-optimist - ❤️ Common Pooled Resources & Regenerative Agriculture🌱 - Founder: @grassecon (a/yeye)
Kenya
Joined December 2007
🌱 Grassroots Economics - Book Published!🌱 After years of learning, listening, and working alongside incredible communities, I’m thrilled to share Grassroots Economics: Reflection and Practice—a book exploring how we can rebuild trust, pool commitments, and create resilient
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Natural selection wasn’t complicated; it was obvious in retrospect. Variation, inheritance, selection ... those dynamics were everywhere for millennia, but no one had named them cleanly as a general principle you could inspect, test, and apply across contexts. Darwin didn’t
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This is a way to help.
How to Help: Stake to Secure Ethereum, Seed to Sustain Communities w/ +20x impact So far we have 21.98 ETH staked on us! 👉 Stake via Lido Impact Staking: https://t.co/0IDSMDWwRd Read how we reach a 20x multiplier: https://t.co/YDYgr12wE6
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Making the Invisible Hand Visible: Adam Smith and Capitalism’s Myth I was taught to hear Adam Smith as a warning label. “Father of capitalism.” Code for greed, property-first thinking, and a polite vocabulary for exploitation. Then I actually read him. What I found wasn’t a
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Governance Call 81 is this week 🔥 🗓️Date: Dec 18th, 2025 ⏰Time: 16:00 UTC 🗒️Details & Agenda: https://t.co/wLWxbAMFRe 🔗Register here: https://t.co/CVCJ0kQ9FD
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“Our mission is to build a regenerative digital economy that creates conditions of prosperity for all.” @Celo
https://t.co/yygaaw4P7s - here is our end of year meeting @grassecon
https://t.co/L1FgJbhGaq - this audio is the mamas around our village.
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Eating ourselves to stay alive ....
Sovereignty Cannibalism I didn't start my own thing because I wanted to be a boss. I started because I couldn't stand being managed. Somewhere along the way, I noticed the quiet paradox: to protect my own freedom, I began consuming other people's agency. And here's the
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Sovereignty Cannibalism I didn't start my own thing because I wanted to be a boss. I started because I couldn't stand being managed. Somewhere along the way, I noticed the quiet paradox: to protect my own freedom, I began consuming other people's agency. And here's the
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“Regen Villages are proposed as a repeatable design pattern for cultivating cosmo-local communities of practice across geographies.” “During the week, 36 vouchers were created in the Sarafu Bazaar Pool, representing goods such as books, food, wine, conversations, and the $VILLA
In November I went to @EFDevcon at Argentina to facilitate commoning at the Regen VIllage, as a Research Explorer for @allo_capital This article is the result of this research. Would love to hear your feedback 🙏 https://t.co/y3z2XojGj3
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I used to think India's caste system, slavery, and wage labor were separate conversations. But the more I witness India's caste system the more I question that. What struck me wasn't just the cruelty. It was the stability . ... Not because people agreed with it (many don't) but
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Humanitarian - trigger notice: corruption, threats, arson. To protect identities, names/places are changed; details that could triangulate are removed. “Saida” (pseudonym) consented via proxy. I've had this same conversation too many times. A field officer is hired through a
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3 minutes of well spent time https://t.co/L1FgJbhGaq Watch. Do you know what you are seeing?
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This is the team in my heart. 🥰 (watch video) Q1’s new public reporting page on https://t.co/BcLj47GySx, Lukenya University’s student pool (LUSOBE), and international trainings; Q2’s field visits, seven Nairobi chamas revived, USSD “Swap,” Kinango strengthening, and Kaya
Join the Grassroots Economics team in Kenya for our 2025 year-end recap harvest: we open by watching the Sarafu Network animation and then speed through quarterly highlights and technology. https://t.co/MScDKAcmxs
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Facing Kilindini Harbor - In homage to Tendai Mtana and the deep-water journey of the Chonyi, I met Tendai at a Thanksgiving dinner with - one of those nights where a borrowed holiday turns strangers into neighbors. Between laughter and a quiet blessing, he talked about a new
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