🌱 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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Insurance is part of a living commons. I get asked all the time how people deal with risk. Simply put . we seed in calm, issue time-bound access to pooled resources in crisis, and . keep caps, triggers, buffers, and liquidity clear. (sounds complicated but worth diving

Holy crap … who has read Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe?. That book opens with rupture . the tearing apart of memory, trust, and reciprocity. And here’s the haunting part: it wasn’t just one village. It was (and still is) the whole world, whenever we replace living

The widespread, cross-cultural presence of commitment pooling systems . known as Mweria in Kenya, Mutirão in Brazil, Minga in Colombia, and by many other names globally . reveals a foundational economic logic that predates written history and challenges dominant market-based.

The Future Is Rooted.We’re not going back. We’re remembering forward. And rebuilding economies with:.✨ Care.✨ Reciprocity.✨ Regeneration.The protocol is ancient. The network is alive. The future is cooperative. (pdf and audio book: ).🧵5/5.

Ancestral Tech, Rebooted.These systems are alive -- and still evolving. This isn’t Community Currency, Mutual Credit or another “blockchain money.”.It’s regeneration through commitment. 🧵4/5.

Credit Cards Run on Ancestral Logic.Modern finance didn’t invent this. It abstracted it. 🟢 Credit unions.🟢 Visa & Mastercard.All rely on pooled trust, credit limits, and redemptions . same as Minga or Mweria. 🧵3/5.

Humanity’s Original Operating System.From the Andes' Ayni to the Philippines' Bayanihan to European barn-raisings . Humans everywhere practiced reciprocal labor and shared care. No bosses. No coins. Just rotating commitments, remembered in community. Global. Ancient. Genius.

Cosmic-level reorientation of what we think economics is. Every culture has it. Kenya: Mweria.Brazil: Mutirão.Colombia: Minga . Older than money. Older than writing. Not barter. Not trade. It’s commitment pooling: the root economic system. We evolved to promise, show up, and.

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Got an idea? A tool? A vision? Don’t just pitch it - translate it into care. Inspired by Stephen Wolfram, this piece invites creators to speak in the language of commitment pooling - offering promises instead of products, rooted in trust, reciprocity, and collective

Just had a beautiful play-test of CoolCity What a nice way to make sense of problems and solutions together. I recommend talking with Marius Müller (thanks!) for a walk through.

Remember to dance. Even when the news is heavy,.even when your hands are full. Step into the music of now.feet finding rhythm,.heart finding room. Because joy is not the absence of struggle,.it’s the pulse that carries us through it.

Social media algorithms choose what to show you based on patterns in your activity and what similar users engage with most. When posts spark strong concepts like trust, care, locality, and the commons . and people pause, like, or share . these are seen as valuable signals.

The Commons Is the Center – Not a Side 🌍.In Gaza, Israel, Sudan, Ukraine, Myanmar, Yemen, Ethiopia, Nagorno-Karabakh, and beyond, people are told: pick a side. Condemn. Prove where you stand. The heart of survival isn’t in choosing camps - it’s in tending the commons: the

We often get lost in cycles - promises, trades, and exchanges - and forget the center. The commons isn’t a chain of transactions. It’s a shared pool, like a circle of friends passing instruments around, each taking a turn to play while the others listen. Money can feel like a

I ate a papaya. I pooped a papaya. I composted my poop. Two years later… more papayas grew. What started as a gardening loop became a lesson in health, trust, and the metabolism of the commons. 🌱. From Seed to Soil to Self - Lessons from the Papaya Pool Loop. Read the full

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🌱 Mutirão isn’t just a Brazilian tradition - it’s humanity’s oldest climate tech. From minga in the Andes to mweria in Kenya, communities have always pooled labor, care, and skill to meet shared needs. Like the mycelial networks under a forest, Mutirão works on trust,