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 you will need a year and a half to read it. My eyes hurt….
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.
Go Farther
This section gives me a chance to share with you some other source that has either influenced my thinking, or where I have written or said something elsewhere that further illustrates this week’s subject.
How to Citizen with Baratunde Thurston is probably my favorite podcast of all the podcasts. I love the premise — repurposing the word “citizen” as an active choice, a practice, rather than a static identity. Each episode givese you a long-form interview/conversation with someone you have probably never heard of, but who is doing something really future-ready in the spaces between social impact, justice, politics and technology. It’s like a deep dive into a world of signals, most of which you probably won’t see otherwise.
This interview is one of my favorites - both for the story it tells and for the person Baratunde is interviewing. It carries the innocuous title “Fast, Fair, Fun,” but the topic is popular (distributed) resistance, cultural and governmental change and using distributed technology to do all of that.
We tend to see only the conflicts that get shoved in our faces, and the setbacks and the frustrations, but we don’t get to see what’s possible. In this podcast, we get a look and what’s really possible - and you won’t forget it.
Worth a listen while you clean the kitchen or do the laundry today. Have a good weekend, and I’ll see you Monday to talk about Systempreneurship.