Feb 14, 2024
Mondragón is a famous complex of cooperatives, primarily based in the Basque country. It has been widely acclaimed for providing stable employment to tens of thousands, a degree of internal democracy, and maintaining growth better than the national average for decades.…
Nov 28, 2023
Poetry flows from the fingertips like threads of silk
Birds have nests and spiders webs
And humans friendships.
But webs too.…
Sep 29, 2023
Soren Mau’s ‘Mute Compulsion’ does an excellent job of calling attention to the ways that our environment – physical, social, technological – mutely compels us to act in certain ways.…
Sep 25, 2023
To start, two quotes:
Everybody knows that the dice are loaded
Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed
Everybody knows the war is over…
Aug 30, 2023
Several interesting properties of the human mode of history:
Humanity has the capacity for surplus labor. I.e., in $N$ hours, a group of humans can act on its environment to procure sufficient material resources to sustain the lives of that group for more than $N$ hours.…