29
Sep
Why Would This Time Be Different?
The technology was never the constraint. Ownership and governance are.
6 min read
Brian Boland
Former tech exec turned advocate for economic justice. Anti-Milton Friedman, pro-progressive economics à la Stiglitz, Raworth, and Graeber. Passionate about justice, rethinking capital's role, and aligning finances with values.
16
Sep
Screens Are a Shield. Ownership Is a Lever.
Almost every conversation we have about values-aligned money opens the same way. Someone tells us what they stopped funding.
3 min read
01
Sep
Where to Start
We've written a lot here, and it isn't organized in any way a reader would guess.
5 min read
26
Aug
Meta Paid $17 Billion to Stop a Trial. Do Not Trust Them.
Don't trust Meta with this settlement. There are some genuinely good concessions however we need legislation and real, lasting accountability for a company who doesn't care about its users.
7 min read
19
Aug
Your Donor-Advised Fund Could Be Funding the Solutions (But It Is Probably Funding the Problem)
More than $326 billion now sits inside donor-advised funds in this country. If one of those accounts has your
10 min read
13
Aug
Our Theory of Change: Building a Wellbeing Economy
“The ultimate, hidden truth of the world is that it is something that we make, and could just as easily make differently.” - David Graeber
10 min read
29
Jul
Room 12
Room 12 had a jar for every child, lined up on the shelf under the window. Most of them held
5 min read
23
Jul
Are We Gambling With Our Future, or Investing in It?
The casino rewards the biggest bet at the table while a productive economy rewards the people who built the thing everyone else is betting on.
5 min read
16
Jul
The Economy Is the Root System
As long as the underlying rules, incentives, and fiduciary duties still point to shareholder returns, the outcomes point there too.
7 min read
08
Jul
The Billionaires Who Weren't
That missing pile did real work. It was a quiet redistribution, made in advance and on purpose.
9 min read