How overzealous (and erroneous) copyright enforcement tramples fair use and is a bad look for progressive politics — To Pete Buttigieg CC: Hyperakt and Zazzle Dear Pete (and Team), I don’t think we have ever met. We were a couple of years apart at Harvard, and we have some friends in common. I don’t know how I feel about your politics yet, but I support your ambition as…

U-S-A! U-S-A! U-S-A! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 United States of America United States of Amnesia United States of Antithetical Extremes Today we celebrate science and NASA landing on Mars 🚀 But sometimes science is not science Even when the scientists say so Even when California burns🔥 The Unpresidented President hides his own government’s…

“If you’re shepherding a crowd rather than just a bunch of people on your payroll, what’s different about that? And what’s different in the context of a world in which there is a very, very big hunger to participate?” — In the latest episode of FoossaPod, David Colby Reed and Lee-Sean Huang interview Jeremy Heimans, CEO of Purpose and co-author of the book New Power: How Power Works in Our Hyperconnected World–and How to Make It Work for You.

From a new book, to more podcast episodes and articles, this is a snapshot of what Foossa has been up to for the last few months. — From a new book, to more podcast episodes and articles, this is a snapshot of what Foossa has been up to for the last few months. Like us, you have probably received a whole bunch of GDPR-compliance updates over the last few weeks. Our terms and conditions haven’t changed. Foossa…

Whether it is a corporate design project, government policy, or awareness campaign, we’re relying on tools that were designed to move individual widgets. — In the latest episode of FoossaPod, I talk with Andrew Benedict-Nelson about social norms as a key to innovation. We discuss ways to rethink responses to homelessness and make sense of movements like LGBTQ equality and #MeToo. Andrew Benedict-Nelson is a social change practitioner, historian, and author of See Think…

Authentic civility is different from weaponized civility — There is a difference between authentic civility and and weaponized civility. Authentic civility is agreeing to disagree, living and letting live based on differences in beliefs, opinions, and interpretations. We acknowledge each other’s shared humanity and human rights. We acknowledge facts and evidence, even if we disagree on what to…

If you don’t like the uncertainty of the exercise, you probably won’t like the uncertainty of running a venture — Wait, why do we have to do this? The other day, my co-founder David Colby Reed and I were facilitating a workshop for entrepreneurs. One of the participants questioned why she should participate in a “stoke” that we were leading. Stokes are like ice-breakers or warm-up activities, but we also…

We just released a new book. Written by our friends and long-time collaborators Jeff Leitner and Andrew Benedict-Nelson, and designed by me and the Foossa team, See Think Solve is a simple guide to difficult problems. Originally developed for a social work PhD program at the University of Southern…