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Richard D. Bartlett
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Published in Microsolidarity

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Courage Before Hope: A Proposal to Weave Emotional and Economic Microsolidarity

Or: What To Do in the Last Decade of the Anthropocene — I’ve spent most of the past 2 years travelling with my partner Nati, trying to discover what is the most strategic & wise action to take in a world that seems to be accelerating towards collapse. After an enormous amount of consideration, I have a strategy that feels good enough…

Climate Change

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Courage Before Hope: A Proposal to Weave Emotional and Economic Microsolidarity
Courage Before Hope: A Proposal to Weave Emotional and Economic Microsolidarity
Climate Change

5 min read


Mar 12

Fan Letter to Portishead, 25 years later

Yesterday I was scrolling twitter, and saw someone shared a clip from your Roseland NYC video. I didn’t even have the sound on, just recognised the picture, and immediately my hair stood on end, goosebumps head to foot. So I took that as a sign it was time to watch…

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Fan Letter to Portishead, 25 years later
Fan Letter to Portishead, 25 years later

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Oct 20, 2022

Working with the OpenCollective API

OpenCollective is a financial & legal toolkit for grassroots communities. It’s awesome! We’re using it to transparently collect & spend money in the Microsolidarity Network. Anyone who contributes to our fundraising is welcome to join our monthly members meeting. Until today, whenever a new member joins the Collective, I have…

Programming

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Working with the OpenCollective API
Working with the OpenCollective API
Programming

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Published in The Tuning Fork

·Feb 9, 2021

Transformative Learning is all about Practice & Connection

The making of an amazing online course — Nati and I are putting the finishing touches on the course design for our guided learning program: Patterns for Decentralised Organising. I’m feeling totally jazzed because I reckon this will be our best training yet. …

Learning

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Transformative Learning is all about Practice & Connection
Transformative Learning is all about Practice & Connection
Learning

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Nov 24, 2020

Hosting a gathering during a pandemic

How to take care of people at an event that could kill them — Hosting events is a big part of how I earn my livelihood and how I do my community-building work. My year started with a plan to hold at least four retreats, each with around 40 people living together for a few days. Then the pandemic happened and we had to…

Coronavirus

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Hosting a gathering during a pandemic
Hosting a gathering during a pandemic
Coronavirus

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Published in How To Be Awesome With Spreadsheets

·Oct 13, 2020

Sharing Money With Friends: What Could Go Wrong?

Running the Finances for our Freelancers Collective with One Awesome Spreadsheet — This is partly a tutorial about how to make awesome spreadsheets, and it is partly about how we manage a flexible profit-sharing agreement for our collective of freelancers (The Hum). If you’re familiar with “microsolidarity”, this is the point where things get really spicy: sharing money between peers. We currently…

Spreadsheets

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Sharing Money With Friends: What Could Go Wrong?
Sharing Money With Friends: What Could Go Wrong?
Spreadsheets

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Apr 15, 2020

Better audio quality on your videocalls

How to: record great-sounding podcasts over Zoom — I’ve been experimenting with different methods for improving the audio quality of my videocalls, both for meetings and for recorded conversations like podcasts. So I have a few suggestions to make your next call sound less like a laptop, more like a studio. I’ll start with some microphone basics. Then…

Audio

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Better audio quality on your videocalls
Better audio quality on your videocalls
Audio

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Published in The Tuning Fork

·Apr 11, 2020

5 Decentralised Organising Tips For A New COVID-19 Volunteer Project

Engaging volunteers; learning loops; decision-making; care; celebration — Today I had a call with Manu Alzuru from Fight Pandemics, a brand new volunteer project enabling peer-to-peer mutual aid in response to COVID-19. I gave him 30 minutes of rapid-fire advice, some of the “top tips” for a new self-organising network like this. …

Collaboration

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5 Decentralised Organising Tips For A New COVID-19 Volunteer Project
5 Decentralised Organising Tips For A New COVID-19 Volunteer Project
Collaboration

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Mar 19, 2020

A quick visual guide to the COVID-19 pandemic

Updated March 21st — I’ve been producing my own charts to understand the Johns Hopkins coronavirus data. Here’s the situation on March 21st. Reported Deaths Here’s all the countries with 100+ reported deaths. I have zoomed in on the first 4 weeks since the 10th death. This linear scale obscures what’s happening. We need to switch…

Co Vid 19

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A quick visual guide to the COVID-19 pandemic
A quick visual guide to the COVID-19 pandemic
Co Vid 19

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Published in How To Be Awesome With Spreadsheets

·Mar 14, 2020

Sooth your pandemic anxiety with spreadsheets

A practical guide for the aspiring DIY data scientist — Living in Italy is intense right now. It took only 17 days to go from first noticing the COVID-19 outbreak, to having to refuse people care because hospitals are overloaded. Human brains do not intuitively grasp exponentials. We need prosthetics. That’s why I have been learning a bunch of math…

Data Science

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Sooth your pandemic anxiety with spreadsheets
Sooth your pandemic anxiety with spreadsheets
Data Science

6 min read

Richard D. Bartlett

Richard D. Bartlett

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