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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

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

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

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?

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

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

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

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

Published in Microsolidarity

·Jan 27, 2020

People, Practices & Place

A Simple Structure to Hold a New Microsolidarity Community — Last week I published the latest story in my Microsolidarity series, explaining how to start a new mutual aid community (a “Congregation”). That chapter was exclusively focussed on the initiation process: where do you start? For this chapter, I want to advance the clock a few months. Assume you’ve had…

Microsolidarity

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People, Practices & Place
People, Practices & Place

Published in Microsolidarity

·Jan 21, 2020

How To Weave Social Fabric

3 Essential Pillars For a New Mutual Aid Community — I published the Microsolidarity proposal a year ago and really struck a chord with people. I’m overdue to give folks an update, and there’s really a lot of exciting news. So first I’ll give a quick recap, then I’ll share what’s happening in 2020. The essence of the original proposal…

Community

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How To Weave Social Fabric
How To Weave Social Fabric
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