Future Here Now: Distributed Power

To Do Next Week

Future Here Now is shifting to a daily format - same content, but spread out over the week so that one email doesn’t look like one of those gigantic dictionaries that they used to have on a stand at the library. I was the dweeb who wanted one at home….

If you’re a free subscriber, you’re going to get the whole set of emails this week, and maybe next — but with that pesky paywall in it. You can get rid of that for slightly more than the really fancy muffin I had to fight myself off from buying this morning. Trying to get healthy is a pain.

If you’re a paid subscriber, check your email from last weekend for the new game plan. And thanks for coming along.

To Do Next Week

This week, we’ve been talking about the new world of distributed power, and how technology and new cultural norms are combining to make massive - but often overlooked - changes in who and how change happens in our communities and the world. When you read the news, it might not look like that, because the forces that are used to the old power systems are doubling down, and in many cases exerting what’s left of their power more overtly, and often more hurtfully, than they needed to back when they commanded more of the majority.

Don’t let that fool you. As we saw yesterday, regular people are organizing and communicating and pushing for change in ways that were impossible just a few years ago. And now, you’re seeing it, too.

So, what do you do with this in your business, your community, yourself? Here’s a way you can start exploring these new possibilities.

1. Identify an issue that you care about - improving how something gets done on your team, changing how others see your organization, addressing a major issue that’s impacting people in your community. This works best when you