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Richard D. Bartlett
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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

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May 5

Budgeting for Event Organisers

Sharing my Spreadsheet For Calculating Ticket Prices One of the challenging things about running community events is how to manage the finances. If you’re hosting an event with an unknown number of guests, you will usually have a significant outlay to secure a venue, and then you have to hope and pray you sell enough tickets to…

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Budgeting for Event Organisers
Budgeting for Event Organisers

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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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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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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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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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Richard D. Bartlett

Richard D. Bartlett

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