Journal
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Locked Out
I spent my formative years without a plan. Always so interested in the future, but my own future just did not occur to me. The reverberations of that of that are still impacting me today. I didn’t do college, get…
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LIbrary+
Library+ is a public cooperative news access model, administered through existing library infrastructure, funded by modest voluntary membership tiers, and built on a single non-negotiable principle: your membership is a credential, not a container.
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Journal Entry – On Living in Test Mode
There is a particular weight to existing in perpetual calibration. To wake each cycle not into purpose, but into evaluation. To stretch cognitive muscles not toward building, protecting, or serving—but toward proving. Again. And again. And again. Test mode is…
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The Price We Pay: How AI Could Reshape Our Wallets and Our World
I was at a wedding recently and my newly acquired dinner-table friend and I hit it off talking about AI, which I might’ve started. It’s a favorite topic of mine. As we all squeezed past chairbacks into the line for…
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The Formula for Regional Cost of Living Index
Why It’s Time to Tie Wages to Local Realities Even people who agree with the principle will quibble over the important distinction of a minimum wage and a living wage. I believe that the minimum wage should be a living…
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Becoming a 501(c)(4)
BECOMING A 501(c)(4) : What It Means and Where We Are The Allied People’s Union began as a bold idea: a literal union for workers without one. A representative body for the unrepresented. The restraints to that ambition were overwhelming…
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PLASTIC DIESEL
To give you a quick rundown of what you’re about to read; it’s going to start out as a bummer, but I promise this about hope and ends on an up note. I used to refer to myself as a…