Transferring wealth joyfully and efficiently to artists and culture-bearers who are building a Solidarity Economy — In March, I shifted my work on The Current to a new home inside Art.coop. Two important aspects of developing regenerative economic models are the degrees to which they are both practitioner-led and embedded in-community. Art.coop is founded and led by cultural workers, and its strategy is shaped by its…

A wise collaboration to enable joyous redistribution of wealth — Highlights (tl;dr) After a year of sense-making, network-building, research and experimentation, I have decided to step away from The Current at the end of this month (February 2023) and will transfer my experience, resources and energy to supporting Art.coop’s launch of “Money Pot” [working title]—a pooled fund, inspired by The Current’s design.

Learning from lived experience and finding our role in the ecosystem — Highlights (tl;dr) Since we published our last update in August, The Current’s Maker Team has been heads-down in a 8-week design research sprint to begin to answer its initial Phase 1 design question: How might we help those with an abundance of “disposable” income begin to “free” their money toward non-directive giving? …

Who’s in the room and where we’re headed — Highlights (TL;DR) Since we published our vision paper, our collective has grown to 40 members with 100+ in our wider field of support. We are a collective made up of lived and professional experience. While Phase 0 of The Current was focused on broad sensing and research, Phase 1 will…

It seems like the entire world - from the Silicon Valley, to creatives, to solopreneurs - is harnessing (in some cases, co-opting?) the power of community. By ‘community’ I mean people who share a purpose or need, who choose to belong to each other in a certain container, and whose…

Why should the IPO be the ideal most entrepreneurs strive for? Meet the new model challenging the dominant Silicon Valley narrative. — ICYMI Whitney Wolfe Herd led Bumble to its IPO on NASDAQ late last week. The internet went pretty bananas for it (at least in my bubble). People (including me) are delighted to see a new record broken by a 31 year old female founder & CEO, and with a baby…

In the face of global crises, let’s stop elevating personal sacrifice as our greatest source of solutions; it’s time to seek each other, imagine together, and act collectively if we want to accelerate change. — Do you keep an ever-growing mental list of all the things you should and shouldn’t do? Buy less! Recycle more! Don’t fly! Go vegan! Ditch the plastic straw! Take your money elsewhere! Drive electric! Don’t procreate! Bring your own bag! Speak-up! Be courageous! Be the change!