Going with the flow

In the course of creating something new, something never been done before, dead ends, diversions, roundabouts, start-overs, are inevitable.  If first you don’t succeed... When we launched our first two demonstration projects, in Portland and Chico, we were excited Copiosis was going to catch on like wildfire.  It didn’t.  That’s a good thing though, 'cause had it, we … Continue reading Going with the flow

How not to do it

Good golly. They got so close. Those focusing on systemic change often point to Northern Europe for evidence that change is possible. Sometimes evidence from Northern Europe teaches a better lesson: how to not do it. While Icelanders approved their crowdsourced constitution created shortly after the Great Recession, the powerful and the elite came in as … Continue reading How not to do it